Chicago Deep Dish: Sustainability & Wellness

With 19 years of development and project management experience, Mr. Scacco has delivered in excess of 12 million square feet of office, multifamily, hospitality and mixed-use projects in multiple markets on two continents. Mr. Scacco’s role with Riverside Investment & Development Company involves all phases of commercial development and investment, including feasibility analyses, project planning and underwriting, capital markets, design and construction management and asset management. Having lead the planning and delivery of 150 North Riverside Plaza, Mr. Scacco’s current focus is Chicago’s newest trophy office tower, 110 North Wacker Drive. Tony received his Bachelor and Master’s of Science in Civil Engineering from Northwestern University, and a Master in Business Administration from Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management Representative projects include: * 110 North Wacker Drive (Chicago, IL) * 150 North Riverside Plaza (Chicago, IL) * Trump International Hotel & Tower (Chicago, IL) * 111 South Wacker Drive (Chicago, IL) * 131 South Dearborn (Chicago, IL) * Four Seasons Abu Dhabi (UAE)

Jaclyn Whitaker serves as Senior Vice President within the Commercial Team for the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI), where she leads a team of highly proficient experts in WELL requirements, feature intentions and the certification process with an emphasis on WELL coaching – project-specific technical support offered to teams toward successful WELL certification. Beyond continuously developing solutions to overcome challenges and general technical WELL resources, Jaclyn’s team leads the effort of international technical expansion of the WELL Building Standard, including determining overlaps with global green building standards. Jaclyn is instrumental in the IWBI membership and WELL Portfolio Provider program development and operations. Prior to joining IWBI, Jaclyn brought extensive sustainability design and consulting experience with a focus on wellness design to Delos as Director of Project Management. Within the Delos Project Management team, Jaclyn worked closely with design, construction and owner teams to incorporate the WELL Building Standard into projects as well as managed the build-out of the WELL Living Lab on the campus of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Previously, Jaclyn led the sustainability department of the New York City architectural firm HLW, providing LEED, sustainability and wellness consulting for HLW projects and has certified many LEED for New Construction, Commercial Interiors and Higher Education projects. Prior to HLW, Jaclyn gained valuable custom residential design experience as a member of Brooklyn firm Nandinee Phookan Architects and Chicago firm Burns + Beyerl Architects. Jaclyn is a licensed architect and is a graduate of the University of Kentucky School of Architecture.

Benjamin founded Cyclone in 2012, after working as a design consulting engineer for ten years, with a vision of making the world more efficient. He established Cyclone to provide a unique service to help design, build and operate high-performance buildings. His background in design and experience with solving complex issues has allowed him to build a company that challenges the built environment to explore new ways to save resources. Over his career, he has helped create some of the most energy efficient and unique buildings in the world. Projects include supertall high-rise buildings, net-positive energy designs, LEED Platinum and WELL Certified buildings. He has earned the prestigious ASHRAE International Design Award for the Walgreens Net Zero Energy Store. In 2015 he was named 40 under 40 by Consulting Specifying Engineer Magazine and in 2016 was awarded best commercial design in ASHRAE’s International design competition. Benjamin served ASHRAE, a 57,000 member International engineering society, as the Director and Regional Chair of Region VI from 2016 to 2019. He has contributed to several technical committees that have helped establish important industry standards and guidelines, most notably areas of expertise focused on commissioning and refrigerated cold storage. In 2013 he co-authored the first guideline for modeling refrigerated cold storage facilities for LEED Certification for the International Association of Refrigerated Warehouses (IARW) and International Association for Cold Storage Construction. (IACSC)