Andrea joined Payette in 2011 and established the firm’s Building Science Group, which integrates sustainable design, energy efficiency and quality of life into all Payette’s projects. Andrea works across projects to bring rigor to the performance of projects. From the onset of projects she integrates performance modeling tools into Payette’s design process to inform and push designs. Additionally, she leads a number of internal research projects, and currently is the Principal Investigator on the 2012 AIA Upjohn Grant on “Thermal Performance of Facades” a research project focused on thermal bridging. She also leads the firm’s efforts on the AIA 2030 Commitment, tracking and benchmarking the performance of projects across the firm.