About Us
Our mission is to integrate Nature back into cities in a way that efficiently promotes profitability, health, sustainability and beauty.
Based in the iconic Brooklyn Navy Yard, our team brings decades of leadership experience in finance, engineering, design, and construction. We have dedicated teams for financing, consulting, system design, plant selection, manufacturing, installation and maintenance. They are each led by highly qualified specialists in their respective fields.
Our team has installed hundreds of thousands of square feet of green building projects throughout the greater northeast over the past 10+ years, on buildings including iconic landmarks, schools, offices, restaurants, condos, and brownstones.
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The Urbanstrong Team
Alan Burchell, Principal
Since launching Urbanstrong in 2014, Alan has provided training on rooftop development strategies for NYC architects, spoken at the United Nations and numerous conferences, appeared on MSNBC, consulted for corporations, nonprofits and municipal governments, and provided expert testimony in court and city council hearings. Outside of work, Alan can usually be found camping deep in the woods decked out in full Indiana Jones cosplay air-guitaring to Nirvana b-sides hoping nobody takes this literally.
Lily Turner, Director of Green Walls
Lily has experience across the United States as a biophilic designer, project manager, and living wall design-build specialist. She has a unique perspective on how we can unify our approach to design, planning, and development in a way that recognizes the social, environmental, and economic value of living architecture; to make our urban cities more green.
Today, she closely works with architects/designers and contractors to best offer a technology suited for their budget, design parameters and scale. Lily also serves as Chair of the Green Roof's for Healthy Cities’ Living Wall Committee and Green Plants for Green Buildings Committee member.
Sarah Janjua, Director of Communications
Sarah holds an MSc in Sustainability Management from Columbia University, where she honed in on developing the skills necessary to catalyze the integration of sustainability into our built environment. From urban agriculture to green buildings, she has worked as a consultant across several industries - spearheading projects that integrate elements of sustainability into cities. When not at work, Sarah can be found exploring New York City by bicycle and providing strategic guidance for the NYC Agriculture Collective, a nonprofit she sits on the board of.
