Sustainability belongs in the business.
Parallel works alongside building product manufacturers, bringing sustainability expertise into the decisions, priorities, and day-to-day work that move the business forward.
Why we exist.
No one should have to tackle sustainability alone.
Sustainability touches every part of an organization—but too often, it’s under-resourced, under-staffed, and siloed. Most teams are left to push the boulder uphill alone, without the support, structure, or strategy to turn effort into impact or business success.
Parallel Sustainability™ was created to change that.
We embed as trusted, expert teammates—bringing the bandwidth, experience, and built environment fluency you can’t find in a single hire. Whether you need technical execution, strategic alignment, or go-to-market support, we help you connect your sustainability actions to actual business outcomes.
Our founder, Annie Bevan, spent years as a third-party verifier and traditional consultant, delivering reports that went nowhere. That frustration sparked the idea for Parallel: a partnership model that supports both the doing and the leveraging of sustainability. Because a certification is just the beginning—real value comes when you use it to flip specs, win trust, and drive sales.
We’re not generalists. We go deep—and wide—in the built environment. Our team has led and shaped some of the most critical systems to accelerate the business case within the sustainable materials space, including:
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USGBC LEED v4.1 Materials and Resources writing and facilitation as staff
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AIA Materials Pledge evolution
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LP50 leadership through ILFI
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mindul MATERIALs movement and the industry's first common language, the Common Materials Framework
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Declare 2.1 and platform investment
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That experience gives us an unmatched network, a strategic edge, and a front-row seat to what’s happening in the market—and what’s coming next.
We built Parallel so no one has to tackle sustainability alone. Not anymore. We’re here to walk with you, through the wins and the mess, with the grit and clarity to help you move faster—and further—than you thought possible. Accelerating and ensuring your sustainability investments have a maximized return on investment.
We start with your business goals, identifying where sustainability can create opportunity, reduce risk, and support long-term growth.
No two manufacturers are alike. We build our support around your organization, products, priorities, customer verticals, and the realities of your business.
We ask questions, challenge assumptions, and look beyond the obvious to uncover opportunities others might miss.
We turn complex challenges into clear priorities, practical plans, and meaningful action. The work doesn't stop at the strategy.
We bring relationships, expertise, and perspective from across the building products industry and broader AEC&O community to every partnership.
We measure success by the progress we make together and the value that continues long after an individual project is complete.
Say hello to your new favorite teammates. We’re strategists, technical experts, communicators, problem-solvers, and sustainability nerds. More importantly, we’re people you’ll actually like working with.
Your expertise, our collective impact.
We’re building a network of experienced, mission-aligned professionals to support projects across the SMSC ecosystem.
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Our Contractor Program connects independent sustainability experts with meaningful client work, offering flexible opportunities to collaborate.
Making sustainability part of your business.
To embed expert sustainability capacity into companies—so they can accelerate their impact reduction, while also expanding a return on investment.
Making better business better for the planet.
To scale a more sustainable future by enabling our built environment financial models to incentivize impact reduction for all stakeholders, globally.