Insights & News

At the beginning of August, our total of women at Mazzetti was 43.2%! We are steadily inching towards our goal of having equal numbers of men and women within the company and being the most women friendly engineering firm in the world. This month, we’re excited to put the W@M spotlight on the incredible female interns (some of which are now full-time hires!) that we’ve had working at Mazzetti this summer.

Many healthcare systems are aware they need to think about the impact of a changing climate on their ability to deliver effective health services. This awareness likely stems from the increasing frequency and severity of climate change-driven disasters. These disasters have included year-round wildfires, increasingly intense rain events and flooding, unseasonable freezes and record-setting heat.

The Inflation Reduction Act was developed in reaction to exponential rises in the cost of energy, global impacts of climate change, and a growing need for the federal government to ease these economic burdens on American's. This bill incentivizes emissions reductions by providing tax credits accessible by private citizens, local municipalities, large corporations, and disadvantaged communities to produce clean power, increase climate resiliency, and modernize existing infrastructure.

Asya Rayter is a Senior Mechanical Designer in Mazzetti’s San Francisco office and one of Mazzetti’s longest-tenured employees! She has helped design many of the San Francisco office’s significant projects including Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford, San Francisco Chinese Hospital, and various Kaiser projects. With retirement in her near future, we spoke to Asya about her career and what Mazzetti means to her.

Troy Savage, Project Manager at Mazzetti, was recently named to the U40 List – AIA AAH List of Healthcare Design's Best Under 40. Each year up to two individuals are named to this list presented by the American Institute of Architects Academy of Architecture for Health which acknowledges individuals making a significant contribution to the advancement of healthcare facilities design.

It’s imperative for healthcare organizations to lead on climate change action; here’s a primer on what to do now.

The Women@Mazzetti committee has decided to postpone our planned spotlight for June until next month in light of the recent news of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. We want to allow time to discuss the impact that this ruling has on our employees and their families.

Meet Lydia Simpson, lighting design intern in Mazzetti’s Atlanta Office.

As an experienced medical equipment technician in the Army and a medical equipment planner and project manager at Mazzetti, we could say TaKeisha knows medical equipment from the inside out.

A fourth-generation engineer, Erin Black is a Mechanical Engineer in Mazzetti's St. Louis office and serves as the current ASHRAE President of the St. Louis Chapter where her grandfather still attends regular meetings. We know she will make an impact on future generations, whether they’re a fourth generation engineer or a first!

Mazzetti has been an employee-owned Benefit Corporation since 2015. ESG is not our flavor of the month; it’s our ONLY flavor. Towards this, we’ve been carbon neutral - inventorying our own greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and offsetting them since 2017.

Holly Taylor works (remotely) in Mazzetti’s Denver office and is the Electrical Discipline Lead for Mazzetti. Holly’s leadership has made the electrical discipline a shining example of how to structure and maintain efficient workflows and resources for everyone to use!