Maggie Smith LEED AP BD+C, LFA, Greenpoint Rated Rater

Maggie is an Associate in Atelier Ten’s San Francisco office specializing in environmental design with deep expertise in embodied carbon analysis and benchmarking. Maggie’s interdisciplinary background in design, engineering, analysis, and green building supports her goal of creating a more sustainable built environment.

Maggie has developed environmental performance tools and guidance for Atelier Ten and consistently finds new and innovative ways to reduce environmental impact and operational demands across the firm’s projects. She is a LEED AP and LFA with experience delivering technical environmental analyses, including life cycle assessment, water balance and climate analysis, natural ventilation and thermal comfort studies, and renewable energy modeling. She also leads larger‑scale sustainability planning work, supporting master plans, project goal setting, and portfolio‑scale consulting. Her broad portfolio of work includes high-performance and low-carbon developments such as the net zero energy and mass timber 500 County Center (San Mateo County Civic Center), the UCSD Pepper Canyon East Development, the YouTube Campus Expansion, the UHS Women’s and Children’s Tower, and the UC Berkeley Helen Diller Anchor House.

Beyond project work, Maggie has contributed to Atelier Ten’s thought leadership at the intersection of environmental design, occupant experience, and carbon reduction, most recently co-authoring “Mythbusting Mass Timber” and “To Build or Not to Build with Wood, that is the Question”. She received her Master of Science in Sustainable Design and Construction from Stanford University and Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Analysis from Scripps College.