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Brittany L. Williams, AIA LEED AP BD+C is a registered architect and educator. Britt's interests lie at the intersection of environmental stewardship and building craft.  

As a project architect at Gardner Architects LLC in Silver Spring, Maryland, Britt focuses on a detail-oriented, multidisciplinary approach to the synthesis of sustainable active and passive strategies at the residential scale. Most recently Gardner Architects won a Merit Award from the AIA Potomac Valley 2019 Design Awards in recognition of the TreeHouse Shed and a 2019 AIA DC Washingtonian Design Award in recognition of Canal House. Her previous professional experiences include a broad range of institutional projects from government buildings to schools and churches. 

Britt is a Associate Clinical Professor in the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at the University of Maryland, College Park.  Many of Britt’s academic pursuits, including her experiences with the Solar Decathlon, an international design-build collegiate competition, have centered on the integration of environmental stewardship in the architectural curriculum.  Britt served as one of the faculty advisers for WaterShed, the University of Maryland's first place entry into Solar Decathlon 2011.  In 2013, Britt was based at Peking University in Beijing where she served as the competition manager for Solar Decathlon China 2013, sponsored by the US Department of Energy and the People’s Republic of China National Energy Administration.