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Strategist & Planner

Markets:

Adaptive Reuse

Campus Planning

Arts & Culture

Education

Energy & Mission Critical

Government

Healthcare

Catherine Tinkler

EBCP, LEED AP O+M, PMP, LFA

Energy & Mission Critical

Government

Healthcare

Adaptive Reuse

Campus Planning

Arts & Culture

Education

With over 25 years in facility operations, maintenance, and capital planning, Catherine has a good sense of how the condition of a building shows up everywhere else — in energy bills, in organizational outcomes, in how people actually feel using the space. She's an assessment specialist and certified Existing Building Commissioning Professional (EBCP) who built her own framework for evaluating facility condition, suitability, well-being, energy efficiency, resilience, and decarbonization, then uses advanced scoring to help clients figure out what to prioritize and why.
Her work spans campus master plans, central plant renewals, feasibility studies, and capital improvement and sustainment strategies, across education, healthcare, and other institutional clients. She's also spent time as a Director of Strategic Planning and Special Projects in higher education herself, so she knows what these decisions look like from the institution's side of the table. She thinks in terms of lifecycle costs and total cost of ownership rather than day-one price tags, and she's equally comfortable digging into engineered systems and translating what she finds into recommendations people can actually act on — tailored to what the institution is trying to accomplish, not a generic checklist.

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Professional Affiliations

ASHRAE TC 9.7 Educational Facilities – Committee Vice Chair
ASHRAE TC 7.3 Operation, Maintenance & Cost Management – Committee Chair

ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer
Association of Energy Engineers - Existing Building Commissioning Professional (EBCP)

GBCI - LEED AP Operations + Maintenance 

Project Management Institute - Project Management Professional (PMP)

International Living Future Institute - Living Futures Accredited (LFA)

Education

Master of Education, Texas Tech University
Master Coursework in Environmental Design, Texas Tech University

Construction Management Certificate, University of Houston
Bachelor of English, Lubbock Christian University

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