Sustainable Stewardship: Preserving Special Places

Preserving history and designing for our future can go hand in hand.

At Quinn Evans, we know what it takes to bring together sustainable design and historic preservation to ensure that special places continue to thrive. Watch as our team shares how we’re shaping communities through innovation and stewardship.

Featuring: Senior Associate Nakita Reed, AIA, CPHC, LEED AP BD+C, NOMA; Associate Patti Babin, Fitwel Amb.; Designer Jenna Barrow; Senior Associate Charles Sparkman, AIA, CDT, LEED AP BD+C; and Senior Associate Maureen Vosmek, Fitwel Amb.

Sustainable Stewardship: Preserving Special Places

Video Transcript

NAKITA REED

One of the things that I love about Quinn Evans is our ability to combine historic preservation with sustainable design, and really embrace the idea that things can be both/and. We don't have to operate in an either/or, or choose making it historic over making it sustainable. Because we really understand the overlap and how things work together.

PATTI BABIN

We are innovators. We really take care in looking at historic properties, historic buildings, historic landscapes, putting in different people's perspectives, bringing out stories that aren't always told.

JENNA BARROW

There's never a time where we're not thinking about sustainability. We strive for that to be motivation for us. When we know we're giving something back to our planet or our communities, it's worth that conversation to have.

CHARLES SPARKMAN

Quinn Evans is uniquely positioned to steward existing places. Our core mission is to make sure that those spaces endure for the future.

MAUREEN VOSMEK

That kind of reinvestment in the community is also helping with social inequity. Those ripple effects of preservation move out into the community.

NAKITA REED

It's also great to be able to have a platform to help people understand that adaptive reuse, climate change, sustainability—they're all connected. And so, being able to use our expertise and share with the profession how they can also do a lot of the work that we're doing because we're not going to build our way to net zero. We absolutely have to reuse what we already have that's here and really make an impact on the communities that we're trying to serve.