Lauren Alger is the National Director of Sustainable Design at STV. She is a civil engineer with experience supporting LEED-certified and Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI) award winning projects. She promotes sustainable design practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase energy efficiency, minimize resource waste, and use clean energy sources, often coordinating closely with agency sustainability leads. As a member of SE 2050, the ASCE-SEI commitment to reduce embodied carbon within structural systems of buildings, Lauren is launching Infrastructure 2050 which will expand the scope to quantify, analyze and reduce embodied carbon within other infrastructure project designs. Her prior experience includes work at MLJ Contracting, Balfour Beatty US and Skanska USA. She holds a degree in Civil and Infrastructure Engineering from George Mason University.