Bryna is a Vice President, serving as the Director of Sustainability Planning & Design, for Moseley Architects. As such, she works closely with Moseley Architects’ architectural staff, engineering staff, and clients from the early planning and design phases through building construction to ensure that the most energy efficient and environmentally responsible design solutions are considered and implemented where feasible. She has over 160 projects in her portfolio that have successfully completed LEED Certification. Benefitting from her leadership, the high-performance projects that Moseley Architects has designed save clients approximately $7M annually in energy bills and reduce water consumption by over 72M gallons per year. Additionally, during Bryna’s tenure at Moseley Architects, 4.3 MW of PV have been installed on Moseley projects, and approximately 385,000 tons of construction waste and demolition debris have been kept out of local landfills and instead diverted to recycling and reuse.
Bryna studied Biology and Environmental Science at the University of Virginia, and earned her Master’s Degree in City Planning (specializing in Environmental Issues) at Georgia Tech. She also received a professional certificate from Harvard University for completing their Executive Education for Sustainability Leadership course and more recently completed the AIA’s Resilience and Adaptation Certificate Program. Bryna is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners, an Associate Member of the American Institute of Architects, and was named a LEED Fellow by the Green Business Certification Institute. She also holds a “Green Classroom Professional” credential from the US Green Building Council. Bryna was the founding Chairperson for the James River Green Building Council (now USGBC Virginia), and served for 6 years on the Board of Directors for the Virginia Sustainable Building Network. In addition, she served for 8 years as the Chair for the Sustainable Sites Technical Advisory Group and sat for 6 years on the LEED Steering Committee for the US Green Building Council, including holding the positions of both Vice-Chair and Chair. Bryna “retired” from the LEED Faculty after 5 years of teaching, having trained thousands of professionals in the art and science of high performance building.