Rashmi Sirkar is a partner at Ha/f Climate Design, where her work encompasses life cycle analysis of buildings and landscape, material strategies for decarbonization, and advocacy for reuse in the built environment. She has led research on the embodied carbon impact study of the City of Toronto’s Urban Design Guidelines, as well as ongoing work on standardizing low carbon, high performance envelope assemblies for the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation’s national low-rise housing design catalogue. She is currently exploring the carbon impact of the public realm through a
seminar that she teaches at the University of Toronto, where parks , pops, and streetscape projects around Toronto are analyzed for their embodied carbon emissions and carbon sequestration potential.