Steven Kellenberg

Biography: Currently working on an executive advisory basis, Steven Kellenberg has been a practitioner of master planning and urban design for over 35 years. He has led team on a number of well known and award winning new communities in the American Southwest, California, China, South America and the Middle East. For five years starting in 2012 he was Senior Vice President at the Irvine Company in Newport Beach heading the company’s Urban Planning and Design department. There he focused on large scale redevelopment in Silicon Valley and on the Irvine Ranch. He also led a GIS-based team in developing innovative analytical tools for property acquisition and gauging redevelopment feasibility. Prior to joining the Irvine Company, he worked at EDAW and then AECOM where he consulted with companies such as DMB, Newhall Land and Farming, Rancho Mission Viejo, Shea Homes, Lewis Companies and others including several in the Middle East, China, Singapore and South America. Steve also is known for research and development in the field of sustainability. While at AECOM his team developed the Sustainable Systems Integration Model (SSIM) which models sustainability programming scenarios for both building and infrastructure systems on large scale projects to develop comprehensive solution sets at lowest cost to developers and the public sector. Amongst other major projects, SSIM was notably used in developing a new urban design plan and sustainability program for the 150 MSF Marina Bay project in Singapore, which over the next 35 years will double the size of the urban core of the country.