As national sustainability manager, Erin Kirkpatrick oversees Swinerton's sustainability program, working with offices across the country to develop and implement best practices for integrating sustainability into projects in every market and improving the company's environmental performance. She is responsible for benchmarking and tracking resource efficiency in offices and jobsites and for designing Swinerton’s roadmap to reduce its carbon impact on the built environment.

Erin brings operational experience to sustainability in construction, having started her career as a project engineer and project manager, where issues involving materials management, embodied and operational carbon, waste management and jobsite operations need to be better integrated into traditional or existing systems and processes to realize sustainability scopes. 

She is a LEED BD+C and WELL accredited professional and holds a professional Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Oregon and a Master of Urban Studies and Sustainable Development from Portland State University. She is based in Seattle.