As vice president of Software and Advisory, Sean McCrady focuses on driving business growth and providing leadership to UL Solutions’ Renewable Energy; Environment, Health and Safety (EHS); Environmental, Social and Governance Data and Reporting (ESGDR); and Healthy Buildings Advisory business units. Throughout his career, Sean has helped commercial real estate developers, Fortune 500 companies, financial institutions, architects, and general contractors meet their health, wellness, and sustainability goals, specializing in indoor environmental quality (IEQ), industrial hygiene, and ESG and sustainability advisory services. His deep subject matter expertise helps UL Solutions develop efficient, cost-effective services for a wide range of IEQ issues that customers face.
Health and Wellness in the Built Environment
Sean leads the development and implementation of UL Solutions’ advisory services for IEQ testing and verification. His team won a UL Solutions Mark of Excellence Award in 2021 for creating the UL Solutions Verified Healthy Building Program, a multitiered evaluation and verification program for IEQ, and since then, he has steered its global expansion. Among his many professional accreditations, Sean is a board-certified indoor environmental consultant, board-certified microbial consultant and board-certified infection control consultant. He is also a Fitwel® Ambassador and an accredited professional in the WELL Building Standard and Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED).
Sustainability
With a deep understanding of the building industry's needs and concerns across multiple market segments, Sean provides guidance on vital safety and sustainability issues. He leads UL Solutions ESG Management advisory, software and verification services, helping customers prepare for compliance with evolving global ESG and sustainability regulations. These include the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (European Union), the proposed Securities and Exchange Commission climate risk disclosure rule (United States), China’s mandatory sustainability reporting requirements, and more. His industrywide knowledge facilitates collaboration between UL Solutions and leading green building programs, such as LEED and Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM). Sean also works with colleagues across UL Solutions to develop tailored, expert-led decarbonization services to help organizations achieve net-zero goals.
“I often say to customers, ‘Don’t prescribe the medicine before you diagnose the patient.’ In other words, to make buildings healthier and more sustainable, we need to first investigate and evaluate before implementing changes. Enterprise and asset owners and managers who lack data and expert analysis when making decisions run the risk of wasting time and money on the wrong tactics.” – Sean McCrady
Press
- UL Solutions Earns Fitwel Best in Building Health Awards | retrofit magazine
- UL Solutions Reaches Milestone 250 Million Square Feet Verified Through Healthy Building Program | UL Solutions
- UL Helps Manufacturers Keep Their Air Healthy | Business Operations, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM)
- Verifying Healthy Buildings | Sean McCrady | SafeTraces
- Schneider Electric Collaborates with UL Solutions to Advance Indoor Environmental Quality | Schneider Electric USA
- Getting to Know UL’s Healthy Buildings Program | Kaiterra Weinars
- UL Verified Ventilation & Filtration, Powered by SafeTraces | Simon Turner, Sean McCrady, Dr. Elliott Horner, and Erik Malstrom | SafeTraces
- UL Solutions Issues First Verified Healthy Building Mark in Taiwan to Nan Shan Life | Business Wire
- CIM Group’s City National 2CAL Office Tower Achieves UL Verified Healthy Building Mark for Indoor Air | CIM
- UL Solutions and SINAI Technologies Join Forces to Help Customers Enhance Decarbonization and ESG Performance and Reporting | UL Solutions
- UL Solutions Certifies Three Ronald McDonald Houses | Engineered Systems Magazine
- Vancouver airport’s healthy building mark nothing to sneeze at | Journal of Commerce (Canada)
- L.A.’s Music Center hopes new ‘Healthy Building’ label eases COVID-19 fears | Los Angeles Times
- UL Announces First UL Verified Healthy Buildings Mark Achieved by Irvine Company | UL Solutions
- Rising Demand for Healthy Buildings in Asia | UL Solutions
