Jean Hansen

Jean is HDR’s Sustainable Principal for the firm globally. She is based in San Francisco with 30+ years of experience in interior design, medical planning and sustainable design. Ms. Hansen is responsible for advancing HDR’s sustainability initiatives in project and research work for healthcare and institutional environments.

She served on Kaiser Permanente’s High Performance Building Committee for ten years to develop national sustainable design standards and led sustainable research in the textile industry for Kaiser Permanente followed by co-authoring a white paper on the research, titled, “Future of Fabric: Healthcare”. She was a core committee member in the development of the USGBC’s LEED Healthcare rating system, continues to be a joint committee member for the development of BIFMA’s Sustainable Furniture Standards ‘level’, and more recently participated in the development of the Health Product Declaration (HPD) and now serves on the Executive Committee and Board of the HPD Collaborative. Jean has worked on 40+ LEED projects, developed sustainable guidelines and led research for healthcare organizations and manufacturers, provided sustainable training for a variety of clients and in-house staff, including the U.S. Army and in-house staff; she has inspired many to pursue LEED Accreditation, and integrated sustainability into multi-million dollar projects. Her clients have ranged from Federal agencies such as the U.S. Army, Air Force and Navy, the Department of Veteran Affairs, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and NOAA, to universities such as the University of California system, Stanford, numerous healthcare organizations, including Kaiser Permanente and furniture and fabric manufacturers.