Aleksandra Sasha Krstanovic
Founder mstep, London
With her 30 years of experience, Sasha is an insightful designer who challenges the norm and pushes the boundaries whilst creating holistic and resource responsible buildings and places.
In 2020 Sasha founded mstep, an environmental engineering design and advisory consultancy focused on decarbonizing the built environment.
A Fellow of both Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) and Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE), Sasha’s focus is on low energy and zero carbon building design and in recognition of this she has recently been named the Building Performance Engineer of the Year 2021 by CIBSE.
Sasha is a board member and trustee of Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) – a professional institution counting some 24,000 members, that speaks for the profession and so is consulted by the government on matters relating to construction, engineering and sustainability.
In 2023 she was appointed as one of 16 new members of the High Speed (HS)2 Independent Design Panel, a critical friend scrutinizing the largest infrastructure development in the UK since the Victorian times
She is a past trustee and board member of of the University Forum and the CIBSE/HPA WSHP Code of Practice steering committee as well as a contributor to the CIBSE Guide L – Sustainability.
Sasha is also a past senior lecturer on Low Carbon Building Services at the University of West of England.
Her passion for design, deep knowledge and collaborative approach enables her to bring the best out of multidisciplinary teams , demonstrated by delivering some of the world’s most sustainable buildings from the Apex in Bury St. Edmunds and Energy Technologies Building in Nottingham, which is the world’s first zero Carbon laboratory, to the Early Learning Village a very low energy super school in Singapore, and Kula Belgrade the future tallest tower in South East Europe.
The pinnacle of Sasha’s professional journey to this point is the United Nation Office in Geneva (UNOG), an international heritage icon currently undergoing the transformation into a 21st Century conference center and the operational heart for of the United Nations in Europe.
In her own words: “Built environment is where we spend most of our lives and it has to perform well and be responsible towards the resources. We need to work together across the disciplines and localities and collaborate openly and willingly if we are going to reduce and reverse our impact on our environment – and I know we can do it”.
In 2020 Sasha founded mstep, an environmental engineering design and advisory consultancy focused on decarbonizing the built environment.
A Fellow of both Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) and Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE), Sasha’s focus is on low energy and zero carbon building design and in recognition of this she has recently been named the Building Performance Engineer of the Year 2021 by CIBSE.
Sasha is a board member and trustee of Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) – a professional institution counting some 24,000 members, that speaks for the profession and so is consulted by the government on matters relating to construction, engineering and sustainability.
In 2023 she was appointed as one of 16 new members of the High Speed (HS)2 Independent Design Panel, a critical friend scrutinizing the largest infrastructure development in the UK since the Victorian times
She is a past trustee and board member of of the University Forum and the CIBSE/HPA WSHP Code of Practice steering committee as well as a contributor to the CIBSE Guide L – Sustainability.
Sasha is also a past senior lecturer on Low Carbon Building Services at the University of West of England.
Her passion for design, deep knowledge and collaborative approach enables her to bring the best out of multidisciplinary teams , demonstrated by delivering some of the world’s most sustainable buildings from the Apex in Bury St. Edmunds and Energy Technologies Building in Nottingham, which is the world’s first zero Carbon laboratory, to the Early Learning Village a very low energy super school in Singapore, and Kula Belgrade the future tallest tower in South East Europe.
The pinnacle of Sasha’s professional journey to this point is the United Nation Office in Geneva (UNOG), an international heritage icon currently undergoing the transformation into a 21st Century conference center and the operational heart for of the United Nations in Europe.
In her own words: “Built environment is where we spend most of our lives and it has to perform well and be responsible towards the resources. We need to work together across the disciplines and localities and collaborate openly and willingly if we are going to reduce and reverse our impact on our environment – and I know we can do it”.
