Breakfast w/ Peggy M. Quijada de Franke – Associate Vice Chancellor (AVC) of Facilities, Planning and Sustainability, LACCD

AIA|LA City Leaders Breakfast Reception w/ Peggy M. Quijada de Franke – Associate Vice Chancellor (AVC) of Facilities, Planning and Sustainability, LACCD

2024 City Leaders Breakfast Series Presented By: Gannett Fleming

The 2024 AIA|LA City Leaders Breakfast Series allows architects & designers and other community stakeholders to meet directly with key individuals transforming Los Angeles in a roundtable setting to discuss innovative ideas to ensure a healthy, sustainable, and economically competitive future.

Peggy M. Quijada de Franke – Associate Vice Chancellor (AVC) of Facilities, Planning and Sustainability, Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD)

Ms. Peggy M. Quijada de Franke is the Associate Vice Chancellor (AVC) of Facilities, Planning, and Sustainability at the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD). She is a California-Licensed Professional Engineer with a Master of Science in Civil Engineering – Structures- and a Master of Business and Administration.

Ms. Quijada has more than 26 years of experience in engineering, planning, and management and joined LACCD in 2014 as a Facilities Project Manager. She was promoted to Director of the Facilities, Planning, and Development (FPD) Department in 2020 and advanced to her current role in 2023.

Ms. Quijada is dedicated to fulfilling LACCD’s vision of providing high-quality and easily accessible educational opportunities for students. She believes in celebrating the area’s diverse cultures and strengthening the regional economy. As such, her responsibility is to provide state-of-the-art facilities that foster a productive learning environment for all students, which entails enhancing, restoring, or expanding the health and functionality of 742 buildings (11.6 million OGSF) across LACCD’s nine colleges and satellite campuses.

As an AVC, Ms. Quijada is helping LACCD meet the sustainability goals of eliminating carbon-based electricity consumption by 2030 and other carbon-based energy use by 2040 and replacing it with clean, renewable, and sustainable energy sources. To this end, she oversees the development and implementation of more than 300 Clean Energy projects, Schedule Maintenance Projects (SMPs), and Deferred Maintenance projects.

Before joining LACCD, Ms. Quijada worked in the energy industry on national and international oil and nuclear power infrastructure projects. She developed seismic hazard maps to design new structures and retrofit existing infrastructure. Additionally, she served as a consultant for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on recovery after natural disasters, including the 1994 California Northridge Earthquake, the 2005 Hurricane Katrina, and the 2011 Alabama Tornadoes.

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