Student Internship - Climate Action & Sustainability - Summer 2025

At Gensler, we design for people. We leverage our global perspective and local presence to innovate at every scale. We’re not just designers. We’re tinkerers, craftspeople, visionaries, innovators and thought leaders. Fueled by passion and entrepreneurial spirit, our people bring new ideas to solve challenging problems. Whether you’re into sketching new ideas, hacking a building, or growing client relationships in global markets, there’s something here for everyone. 

Our depth of expertise spans disciplines—from workplace and mixed use to education, hospitality, cultural institutions, digital tech, and more. Whether we’re dreaming into a future learning environment, planning a new urban district or designing a super tall building, we strive to make the everyday places people occupy more inspiring, more resilient and more impactful.

To learn more about our internship programs, please visit gensler.com/internships.  

Your Role

As a Summer Climate Action Intern in Gensler’s Houston office, you will join our Climate Action & Sustainability team and work across a range of client industries and services. Primary responsibilities will include end-user research, secondary research, production of client deliverables, programming, design standards development, and change management communications.

This is a full-time program running from June 3 through August 8, 2025. You must be available to work in person for the entire duration of the program.

What You Will Do

• Support process of the LEED Design and Construction credits for projects in Core & Shell, New Construction and Interiors rating systems

• Document and coordinate LEED credits for review by GBCI

• Engage project teams to perform project Embodied Carbon Assessments (interior and whole building)

• Participate in work sessions with clients and design teams to facilitate greater understanding of product selection impacts and opportunities.

• Participate in the coordination with project design and consultant teams to provide sustainable product selection guidance and technical support, participating in client meetings when necessary

• Contribute to daylight modeling, energy analysis, and resource efficiency studies using Climate Studio

• Identify and maintain awareness of current and emerging technologies, tools, and methods as they impact the delivery of green building design 

• Research Federal, State, and local regulations and incentives and provide guidance to clients 

Your Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a Bachelor's or Master's degree in sustainable building, architecture, engineering, interiors or related field

• You have completed your third year of an undergraduate program or first year of a graduate program and are returning to your program post-internship. This internship is not for recent graduates

• Basic awareness of key sustainability, wellness, and resilience concepts, including resource conservation, energy efficiency, water conservation, climate change, sea level rise, low-emitting materials, and renewable energy.

• Familiarity with performance analysis including but not limited to embodied carbon/whole building lifecycle analysis, daylight, energy, solar, and climate assessments.

• Identify and maintain awareness of current and emerging technologies, tools, and methods as they impact the delivery of green building design.

• Familiarity with green building rating systems.

• You submit an online portfolio or PDF demonstrating the design process and innovative design solutions.

• Experience using Building Performance Simulation programs (ClimateStudio, Ladybug/Honeybee, Sefaira, IESVE, EQuest) highly recommended.

• Experience using Life Cycle Analysis programs (Tally, Oneclick, EC3) highly recommended.

• Experience with Rhino, SketchUp, and/or BIM modeling software (Revit) highly recommended.

• Experience with Adobe Creative Cloud Suite (Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign).

• Are passionate about sustainability and computational tools.

• Have strong interpersonal skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

How to Apply

Submit an online application including a resume and portfolio in PDF form. If you choose to submit a link to an online portfolio, you must make sure it is not password protected and that it contains a resume and work samples.

Submissions made in Microsoft Word and/or without work samples will not be considered.

This posting will remain open until early March 2025.

Please note that applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and available positions may be filled before the posting closes.