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The Professional Development Committee (PDC) has grown in FY22, and this
                                 growth and diversity of membership had a significant impact on achieving the
                                 committee’s goals. One accomplishment included completing evaluating and
                                 implementing pairing of individuals in a Mentor-Mentee program. A subcommittee
                                 has been established to identify and coordinate topics for Small Mentor
                                 Group/Employee Resource Group programs including current implementation of a
                                 small mentor group of young interns on licensing and certification processes. The
                                 PDC is also assisting the Operations Team and Chief People Officer to assist in
                                 creating career paths, growth, and opportunities as well as identifying goals for PM
                                 roundtable to train and foster growth within FGMA.  This PM roundtable has recently
                                 been rolled out.  An upcoming goal is to coordinate site visits with team leaders to
                                 include other project team members which assist in the professional growth of our
                                 teams.  PDC is also tracking internal presentations / site visits for continuing
                                 education credits.

                                 The Resilient Design Committee (RDC) remained focused on three main tenets:
                                 Sustainability, Health and Wellness and Emergency Preparedness/Safety & Security.
                                 There were a lot of initiatives in FY22, and I am attempting to highlight a few of them
                                 here.

                                 Regular meetings of the committee as a whole occurred as did regular meetings of
                                 subgroups centered around the tenets described above.  The committee identified
                                 seven categories of objectives for FY 2022: external promotion, internal training,
                                 resilient design, promote sustainability, design for health and wellness, support
                                 diversity, equity and inclusion and social issues and emergency preparedness.
                                 Additionally, several presentations were given by consulting engineers on Net Zero
                                 and Embodied Carbon, and by our team on CPTED Racism/Social Equity (Ray Lee
                                 and Brian Meade).  Prairie Trails was showcased as a Net Zero project.

                                 In October, a sustainability survey was issued to all design staff.  Key highlights from
                                 the feedback provided by respondents include:

                                     •   Build up staff knowledge.
                                     •   Provide building performance analysis workshops including cove.tool.
                                     •   Provide guidance on how to talk to clients and consultants about these
                                         topics.
                                     •   Integrate sustainable design and resiliency into our process and product,
                                         beyond rating systems.

                                 In November, Lynne Sorkin and Lucy Williams attended the Greenbuild Conference.
                                 The reoccurring theme at the conference was that to meet target greenhouse gas
                                 reductions within the building industry, embodied carbon will need to be
                                 significantly reduced in addition to operational carbon.  Lucy Williams is now working
                                 with Mike Denz and Robert Zupancic on a case study assessing various available tools
                                 for measuring embodied carbon.  This team is utilizing the AIA & Carbon Leadership
                                 Forum (AIA-CLF) toolkit and publications to guide this research endeavor.  Lucy,
                                 Mike, and Robert look forward to providing an education series on embodied carbon
                                 as well as sharing our findings and recommendations, once the case study is
                                 complete.




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