Auri is a sustainability consultant and member of the Carbon-Free Buildings team at RMI. His work focuses on policy, investment strategy, and coalition-building to reduce embodied carbon and increase the uptake of carbon-storing bio-based materials in the built environment.
Background
Auri’s undergraduate studies at MIT focused on interdisciplinary building technology. His bachelor’s thesis, “New Structural Systems in Small-Diameter Round Timber,” demonstrated the potential for using low-value trees from sustainable forest management in structural applications. With the support of a Fulbright scholarship and the BRE Centre for Innovative Construction Materials, Auri completed a PhD at the University of Bath, focusing on computational design tools for reusing steel and timber elements in new buildings. During his postdoc at the University of Cambridge, Auri investigated prefabrication methods for low-carbon school buildings and advocated for embodied carbon action with the UK government and at COP 26.
As an independent consultant, Auri has supported Sterling CLT in establishing a structural cross-laminated timber product line and producing their first environmental product declarations, co-led a firm-wide embodied carbon education initiative at Thornton Tomasetti, and supported One Click LCA’s market expansion in North America.
Education
BS, Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PhD, Architecture and Civil Engineering, University of Bath
