Diane Dale

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Diane Dale Vice President, Director of Sustainability AECOM Alexandria, VA Diane Dale is a planner with 30 years of experience working with communities around the globe. Her portfolio represents a continuum of advancements and innovation that are models of sustainable planning and development. Trained as both a designer and a lawyer, Ms. Dale brings unique skills in analysis, strategic thinking, and communication that are highly effective in addressing the challenges of community planning. She approaches planning through an integrated and systems-based conceptualization process in which energy, water, waste and other site systems are early and key informants of community. Ms. Dale leads one of AECOM Centers of Excellence in Sustainability. Her studio is focused of frontend planning services to address sustainable planning and development, climate adaptation, and resiliency. The employ bespoke tools that provide quantitative analysis of impacts and modeling for robust comparison of alternatives. Most recently, she directed the Long Island Regional Sustainability Plan under New York State Energy and Research Authority’s Cleaner Greener Program that was established by Governor Cuomo to advance greenhouse gas emission reduction goals while promoting economic development. Prior to joining AECOM, she was the Director of Community Design at the sustainable design thought-leadership practice of William McDonough + Partners. She worked closely with Bill McDonough to translate the innovations in green buildings to the scale of community planning. She was project director for the Master Plan and Green Infrastructure Redevelopment of the Ford Rouge Center, Dearborn, MI, a widely recognized model of sustainability. Her work on sustainable strategies for UC Davis’s Long Range Plan and on Park 20|20 Sustainable Master Plan, Haarlemmermeer, NL, received ASLA Honor Awards in Planning. While at WM+P, the firm received the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Sustainable Design and her innovative plans for Hali’imaile, an affordable and sustainable community on Maui, was included in the 2010 Green Communities exhibit at the National Building Museum. Ms. Dale is a frequent speaker on topics of sustainability at conferences and universities and has published in ULI’s Urban Green, Places, Landscape Architecture, and the University of Virginia’s Environmental Law Journal. She received a Bachelor in Landscape Architecture from SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry, Master in Landscape from University of Pennsylvania, a Fulbright Scholarship to Universita di Genova, and a Juris Doctor from University of Virginia. She was elected to the Council of Fellows of the American Society of Landscape Architects in 2010. Updated July 2013 Member Directory

Biography: Diane Dale Vice President, Director of Sustainability AECOM Alexandria, VA Diane Dale is a planner with 30 years of experience working with communities around the globe. Her portfolio represents a continuum of advancements and innovation that are models of sustainable planning and development. Trained as both a designer and a lawyer, Ms. Dale brings unique skills in analysis, strategic thinking, and communication that are highly effective in addressing the challenges of community planning. She approaches planning through an integrated and systems-based conceptualization process in which energy, water, waste and other site systems are early and key informants of community. Ms. Dale leads one of AECOM Centers of Excellence in Sustainability. Her studio is focused of frontend planning services to address sustainable planning and development, climate adaptation, and resiliency. The employ bespoke tools that provide quantitative analysis of impacts and modeling for robust comparison of alternatives. Most recently, she directed the Long Island Regional Sustainability Plan under New York State Energy and Research Authority’s Cleaner Greener Program that was established by Governor Cuomo to advance greenhouse gas emission reduction goals while promoting economic development. Prior to joining AECOM, she was the Director of Community Design at the sustainable design thought-leadership practice of William McDonough + Partners. She worked closely with Bill McDonough to translate the innovations in green buildings to the scale of community planning. She was project director for the Master Plan and Green Infrastructure Redevelopment of the Ford Rouge Center, Dearborn, MI, a widely recognized model of sustainability. Her work on sustainable strategies for UC Davis’s Long Range Plan and on Park 20|20 Sustainable Master Plan, Haarlemmermeer, NL, received ASLA Honor Awards in Planning. While at WM+P, the firm received the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Sustainable Design and her innovative plans for Hali’imaile, an affordable and sustainable community on Maui, was included in the 2010 Green Communities exhibit at the National Building Museum. Ms. Dale is a frequent speaker on topics of sustainability at conferences and universities and has published in ULI’s Urban Green, Places, Landscape Architecture, and the University of Virginia’s Environmental Law Journal. She received a Bachelor in Landscape Architecture from SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry, Master in Landscape from University of Pennsylvania, a Fulbright Scholarship to Universita di Genova, and a Juris Doctor from University of Virginia. She was elected to the Council of Fellows of the American Society of Landscape Architects in 2010. Updated July 2013

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