Lisa Podesto

Director of Mass Timber and Industrialized Construction, Swinerton Construction

Lisa Podesto offers 15+ years of leadership in developing, designing, and constructing projects using mass timber and offsite construction technologies. Utilizing a broad range of industry experience, she supports Swinerton’s project teams regionally to achieve cost and schedule efficiency in enabling the use of mass timber and expanding the market for more sustainable innovation.

As a recognized subject matter expert, Lisa is active on several industry and professional advisory boards supporting mass timber research and market development for organizations such as the Tallwood Design Institute (TDI), the Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS), and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). In 2012, Lisa began her contribution to the market development of mass timber as a co-author and peer reviewer for the United States Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) Handbook. Over a decade later, she continues to advance the cause—speaking and authoring papers on designing and constructing cost-efficient, high-performing, low-carbon buildings.