Deb Favaretto named “Rising Star” in 2022 Metropolis Planet Positive awards

Every year, Metropolis recognizes the most creative projects and products from around the world that instill sustainability, as well as firms and professionals who pave the way to a better built environment. 

Deb is a proven rising star in the world of sustainable design by numerous measures. All at once, she is driving remarkable sustainability outcomes on projects while leading breakthrough internal changes around culture and process at CannonDesign.

Deb focuses on health projects and has been invaluable to organizations including Kaiser Permanente, Northwestern Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin among many others. For Kaiser Permanente, she performed one of the company’s first Whole Building Life Cycle Assessments for a medical office building in Hesperia, CA that ultimately achieved LEED Gold certification. For Northwestern Medicine’s Old Irving Park Outpatient Center, Deb and her team sought to reduce the overall embodied carbon and low-carbon hybrid concrete, and successfully achieved an overall 22 percent reduction in carbon emissions for the building. 

Deb's work is always cross-disciplinary as she galvanizes, leads, and manages the firm’s growing ability to lead when it comes to climate positive design. She co-leads CannonDesign’s annual AIA 2030 Commitment predicted energy use tracking and reporting across a portfolio of more than 9 million square feet. She has also evolved the firm’s energy design process and toolkit and continues to shape the firm’s annual Environmental Awareness Week.

Through all these efforts and more, Deb has established herself as a leading voice nationally in sustainable design, always speaking up and acting with incredible passion to redefine what’s possible for a more sustainable and regenerative built world.