2019 ICFF NYC

Amanda Kaminsky
Founder & Principal
Building Product Ecosystems [BPE]


Amanda Kaminsky is Founder and Principal of Building Product Ecosystems [BPE] LLC, operating multi-disciplinary collaboratives that evolve feedstocks, recycling, infrastructure, and logistics for optimal systemic health and performance of major building materials on behalf of building owners, their supply chains, recycling networks, and impacted communities. Amanda carefully pilots improvements on projects under active development with building owners, manufacturers, recyclers, contractors, designers/engineers, regional policy makers, and academic researchers. Collective pilot learnings are shared amongst collaborators for expedited industry progress. Informed by piloting and lab testing, solutions are quality-controlled and streamlined for scaled implementation via evolution of existing codes/standards, and creation of new ones. BPE was originally founded by Amanda and The Durst Organization as a public private partnership with The New School, City University of New York, Healthy Building Network, and Vidaris. Before and during early stages of BPE, Amanda also led sustainable construction and procurement efforts at The Durst Organization from 2005-2015. In collaboration with NYC Department of Sanitation, she managed execution of New York City’s first high rise residential organics collection/compost program, and further deployed those learnings in roll-out of the first portfolio-wide commercial organics collection program in NYC. Amanda Chairs the Health Product Declaration Collaborative Board, and is a Director on the Board of Healthy Building Network. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Architecture from University of Virginia.

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