Dana Schneider leads JLL’s Energy and Sustainability Projects team nationally and heads the Northeast division in a region anchored by New York City, Boston, and Washington DC. Her focus is on energy optimization as well as the development and implementation of energy and sustainability programs for a broad range of clients and project types. She specializes in comprehensive energy and sustainability performance and LEED certification for new buildings, existing building retrofits, and portfolios as well as commercial interiors. Ms. Schneider joined JLL in January 2002.
Ms. Schneider led the whole-building energy retrofit of the Empire State Building and achieved LEED EBOM Gold certification for the most famous office building in the world in 2011. This major initiative uses a groundbreaking analytical model for maximizing energy and environmental value per dollar spent, which she was instrumental in developing. Ms. Schneider is now replicating this energy optimization process in over 30 buildings across the U.S. In addition to her continuing innovative work at the Empire State Building, she manages energy and sustainability aspects of commercial office, mixed use, convention center, entertainment/hospitality, schools, and mission critical facilities across the country and has led energy and sustainability assignments at over 80 million square feet of properties in the Northeast alone.

Over the course of her career, Ms. Schneider has overseen projects for corporate, investor, cultural, and institutional clients such as HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Citigroup, Diageo, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Barclays Capital, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Empire State Realty Trust, Grand Central Terminal and BBC. Prior to joining JLL, she worked as a mechanical engineer at WSP Parsons Brinckerhoff Consulting Engineers, where she managed engineering analysis, design and project management aspects of sustainable design and architectural engineering projects.

Ms. Schneider is a LEED Fellow. She serves as JLL’s national Data Center Energy and sustainability Services Committee Lead and as a member of the National Sustainability Leadership Team. She serves as a technical resource expert for the Clinton Climate Initiative’s Climate Positive Development Initiative and is a member and Vice Chair of the USGBC’s Technical Advisory Group for Indoor Environmental Quality. Ms. Schneider serves on the Board of Directors and Programs and Education Committee of the New York City Chapter of the USGBC and is a member of the Real Estate Roundtable Sustainability Policy Advisory Committee and Real Estate Board of New York Sustainability Committee. Ms. Schneider is a LEED Accredited Professional and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Virginia.