Jane Sanders
Associate Principal
Director of Sustainability, AIA, CPHD
Jane Sanders’ work focuses on sustainability, maximizing space and light, sensitivity to historic details and clean, understated design.
Jane ran her own urban residential firm for over fifteen years. Prior to that, she specialized in historic preservation and adaptive reuse at Jan Hird Pokorny Associates. Her extensive experience is in building restoration, new construction, code compliance and working with NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission.
She has worked on a variety of building types including churches, museums and townhouses preparing construction documents, technical specifications, master plans, historic structure reports and conditions surveys. She was project architect for restoration of the Brooklyn Historical Society and the 79th Street Maintenance Facility in Central Park.
Jane was recently selected by the Department of Buildings to serve as a member of the 2019 NYCECC Residential Advisory Committee to review and provide recommendations on proposed amendments to the energy code.
She has completed training and certification in Passive House, a methodology for producing extremely energy efficient buildings with superior indoor air quality. She has recently completed three Passive House retrofit projects in Brooklyn. She lives in a Passive House in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
Registered Architect
New York
Certified Passive House Designer (CPHD)
LEED Green Associate
American Institute of Architects (AIA)
New York Chapter, Historic Buildings Committee (HBC)
New York Chapter, Committee on the Environment (COTE)
Brooklyn Chapter, Custom Residential Architects Network (CRAN)
Association for Preservation Technology International (APTI)
Technical Committee on Sustainable Preservation (TCSP) Member
Association for Preservation Technology Northeast (APTNE) Member
New York Passive House
Board of Directors
Governance & Nominations Committee
Department of Buildings 2019 NYCECC
Residential Advisory Committee Member
URBAN GREEN COUNCIL
New York Landmarks Conservancy
1996
AIA New York Chapter
Travel Grant
2004
The New York Landmarks Conservancy
Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award*
Winner for the Brooklyn Historical Society
2004
New Jersey Historic Trust
Excellence in Preservation Award*
Winner for the Historic Walnford House
2003
The Preservation League of New York State
Preservation Award*
Winner for the Brooklyn Historical Society
1997
The New York Landmarks Conservancy
Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award*
Winner for the Guardian Life Insurance Building
May 2024
The Passive House Network Certified Passive House Designer Course
Featured Guest Speaker
Online
September 2022
Northeast Sustainable Energy Association Panel Discussion
Bridging the Gap Between NYC Local Laws and Decarbonization
Mariel Hoffman, Matt Resnick
New York, NY
June 2021
Passive House Accelerator Global Passive House Happy Hour
Online
April 2015
AIANY Committee on the Environment and New York Passive House
Jeremy R.M. Shannon
New York, NY
MARCH 2025
AIA ARCHITECT
Wanda Lau
Spring/Summer 2021
Passive House Accelerator Magazine Retrofits 2021, Revitalizing Communities
Jay Fox
2017
From Small to Extra Large, Passive House Rising to New Heights
Carbon Productions, 2017. Bergen Street, State Street, and Windsor Terrace Passive houses are featured on page 98.
Mary James
2016
Passive House in Different Climates, The Path to Net Zero
New York: Routledge, 2016. Bergen Street Passive House is featured in chapter 17.
Mary James
2015
New York Passive House 2015: The NYPH Flip Book
Low Carbon Productions, 2015. Bergen Street Passive House is featured on page 42.
Mary James