Alicia Daniels Uhlig

 

Alicia Daniels Uhlig is a licensed architect with more than two decades of sustainable design experience within the architecture design firm setting. It was with a sense of urgency to transform our built environment that she left traditional architecture practice in 2016 and joined the International Living Future Institute (ILFI) as the Director of the Living Community Challenge +Policy. As Director she quintupled the number of registered Living Community Challenge projects and advocated for the successful adoption / updates of ILFI incentive policies. Her increasing resolve for action led her to seek a greater impact on the future of sustainability through the direct education and mentoring of architecture students for six academic years (2019–2025) at universities including Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and the University of Washington. As a mission-driven architect working to create a more vibrant, healthy, just, and resilient built environment, she is motivated by the scale of impact and accelerating the pace of sustainable solutions. In 2025, she joined King County’s Executive Climate Office (ECO) as the Green Building + Infrastructure Manager, driving municipal climate action at a pivotal time.

Alicia’s architectural career has spanned continents, including: Van der Ryn Architects in California; the US Virgin Islands; Matera, Italy – a UNESCO World Heritage Site; and most recently at GGLO in Seattle. As Principal and Director of Sustainability at GGLO, she spearheaded internal research & education initiatives and was the firm’s driving force for bringing sustainable design solutions to 3,000 housing units certified to LEED standards. During her tenure, Alicia led GGLO’s team that explored the creation of the Capitol Hill EcoDistrict and projects of interest include: 2013 Seattle Climate Action Plan, which outlines a path to achieving city-wide carbon neutrality by 2050; 2015 Seattle Climate Resilience Plan, which identifies the potential land use impacts of local sea level rise; 2016 Seattle Climate Impacts Preparedness Plan, which provides planning guidance for climate change; and the International Energy Agency’s Plan4DE, which is providing an online planning tool to analyze the links between district energy viability and urban form.

Alicia is a licensed Architect in California (current), Washington (current), and previously in the US Virgin Islands. In 2014 she became a LEED Fellow for work in BD+C, Homes, and Neighborhood Development. In 2018 she was a recipient of the Women in Sustainability Leadership Award. She has served on USGBC’s LEED Advisory Committee, served on Cascadia Green Building Council’s Seattle Branch steering committee for ten years, was a founding steering committee member of the Capitol Hill EcoDistrict (2012-2020), is an American Solar Energy Society lifetime member, served as an Urban Land Institute Northwest task force member and NW Multifamily Product Council.