Your Building Isn’t Ready for What’s Coming: The Climate Crisis No One’s Designing For– Ep 87 with Phil Galway-Witham
In this episode of Better Buildings for Humans, host Joe Menchefski sits down with Philip Galway-Witham, Senior Associate and Resilience Leader at Gensler Toronto, for a powerful deep-dive into climate resilience in architecture. Philip shares his global upbringing, what drew him to sustainable design, and how resilience planning is becoming an essential response to our rapidly changing climate. From wildfires and urban heat islands to rising sea levels and failing power grids, this episode explores how extreme weather is reshaping our buildings—and how design can push back. Philip also unveils insights from Gensler’s Global Climate Action Survey and how those findings are influencing planning from the city level to individual buildings. A must-listen for anyone invested in building design that truly meets the moment and the future.
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More About Phil Galway-Witham
As Gensler’s Northeast Regional Resilience Leader, Philip Galway-Witham has been instrumental in the rollout of the Gensler Product Sustainability (GPS) Standards. Since joining Gensler in 2019, he has worked on a number of complex projects across aviation, life sciences, developer sciences, and CASPA practice areas. Alongside his work in providing sustainability best practice, technical expertise, and stewardship on large-scale master planning, Galway-Witham is engaged in building tools, calculators, and workflows to embed resilience and sustainability into each project. He also serves as the Office Practice Area leader for the Climate Action & Sustainability practice area.
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