Vice President Impact Implementation and Innovation
TAS

Liza oversees connecting TAS’s impact goals with project pipeline, from early engagement and project visioning through to construction and occupancy. Liza is a design thinker and a natural collaborator. She brings over 20 years of experience in design, architecture, real estate and project delivery. Her previous experience includes complicated public/private partnership models in the GTA and abroad. Liza’s experience combined with her passion for driving meaningful impact helps her guide the team to innovate and strategically drive impact while pushing the traditional constraints of real estate development. Liza leads TAS’ Innovation & Impact Implementation team, implementing solutions that tackle climate change, broaden affordability and equity, and builds social capital. Liza holds a Master’s of Architecture from the University of Toronto and is a licensed architect with the Ontario Association of Architects.

Speaking at the Following:

Nov 2

Thursday, November 2, 2023

What’s Old Is New Again: Promoting a Circular Economy through the Development Industry

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Los Angeles Convention Center - West Hall, 515B

One of the greatest challenges of our time: every new building emits greenhouse gases, and the city of Toronto needs to build housing for 3 million new residents by the same year it becomes net zero. Worldwide, the only solution to building more and polluting less is through the adoption of a circular economy and culture of material reuse, and developers have an unrivaled power to implement this necessary paradigm shift at an urban scale. Using our own salvaging pilot project at The Yards in Toronto as a backdrop, we propose a multidisciplinary panel discussion on the opportunities, challenges, and […]