Kritika Kharbanda leads sustainability strategies at Henning Larsen's New York office, on projects across multiple geographies, climates, scales, and typologies, including higher education facilities and schools, cultural and civic buildings, labs, offices, mixed-use projects, and masterplans. Her passion, training, and experience lie at the intersection of architecture, sustainability and technology, arming her to develop and inform sustainability goals and concepts as part of strategic visioning, programming, and the earliest phases of design. Her skillset ranges from early-stage energy simulations, carbon benchmarking for life cycle, indoor thermal comfort, daylight, microclimate analysis, and other computational workflows for evidence-based design. She also supports projects targeting LEED, Living Building Challenge, and WELL certifications.
Kritika received her Masters in Design with specialization in Energy and Environments from Harvard with cross-enrollment at MIT, and was a Social Innovation and Change Initiative Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School. Her commitments within the broader building science community include contributing to the global Carbon Leadership Forum, International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA), and local carbon-focused policy efforts in Boston and New York City.
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