We are dedicated to helping planning and design teams, cities, and communities strengthen urban climate resilience by providing climate risk assessments, decarbonization advisory, and resilience focused planning.
Inga Ruzgyte Colan, Principal
As a multidisciplinary professional, Inga has built her career helping organizations, communities, and project teams navigate sustainability, resilience, and climate related challenges through technical expertise, strategic planning, and practical implementation.
She specializes in building performance, decarbonization, climate risk assessment, life cycle and embodied carbon analysis, Net Zero planning, GHG accounting, and green building certification. With a background in engineering and extensive experience working across the built environment, she helps bridge building level expertise with broader urban resilience and climate action strategies.
Over the course of her career, Inga has contributed to LEED and Living Building Challenge projects across commercial, educational, healthcare, and residential sectors, supporting projects ranging from small scale developments to large institutional and infrastructure investments. Her work has included code compliance reviews, embodied carbon calculations, climate adaptation analyses, Net Zero planning, and GHG benchmarking, helping teams make informed, measurable, and implementation focused decisions.
She is passionate about developing responsible, practical, and sustainable solutions that support people, organizations, and communities while responding to the realities of a changing climate. Inga has shared her expertise internationally through consulting, coaching, industry collaboration, and professional engagement across the United States and Europe.
Outside of her professional work, she enjoys traveling, reading, yoga, dancing, and spending time outdoors with her husband and two children. She values integrity, responsibility, collaboration, and curiosity, and believes strong partnerships are essential to meaningful climate and resilience work.
If your mission aligns with hers, Integrated Resilience Consulting welcomes opportunities to collaborate on climate resilience, sustainability, and adaptive urban development initiatives.
Check out Inga's LinkedIn Profile for project and industry experience
Inga Ruzgyte Colan
Education and Certifications:
- Master of Science in Printing Trades Engineering, Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania
- Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania
- LEED Green Associate
- ActiveScore / ModeScore AP
- Sustainability Professional, International Association of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP)
- Net Zero Analyst, Voiz Academy
- Certified Professional Life Coach, Fowler International Academy