Our 2026 Jury
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Mona Lemoine is an Associate, Senior Sustainability Consultant, and Chair of DIALOG’s Green Practice Roundtable. She is also Co-Chair of the RAIC Committee on Regenerative Environments (CORE). With over 25 years of work in the built environment, Mona is committed to weaving resilience, equity, health, and biodiversity considerations into projects, while remaining focused on lowering whole life carbon emissions through material performance, circular economy, and regenerative design and development.
Mona brings both big picture systems thinking and attention to detail working with client and project teams to develop a carbon impact vision with goals that will achieve the best possible outcome for the project, based on budget and timeline, all while addressing the urgency of climate change.
Drew Adams is Principal of the newly founded design studio ADO. Prior to this, he was a Senior Associate at LGA Architectural Partners, where he led innovative and high-profile projects including Eva’s Phoenix adaptive reuse, Evergreen’s Future Cities Centre, and Indigenous House at the University of Toronto Scarborough with Formline Architecture.
Drew’s background spans architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning with a focus on climate-responsive design and resilient communities. His work has received wide recognition for design excellence, innovation, and technical achievement. Drew frequently speaks on sustainability, has been a sessional instructor at the University of Toronto for more than a decade and is the recipient of the RAIC 2020 Emerging Architect Award.
Sergio Acevedo is a senior architect with more than 20 years of experience shaping architecture at the intersection of sustainability, building performance, and human well-being. His advanced graduate studies in building comfort and environmental performance in France inform a climate-responsive, human-centred design approach grounded in technical rigor. As Sustainable Development Manager at Jodoin Lamarre Pratte architectes, he works closely with multidisciplinary teams to integrate high-impact environmental strategies and plays a key role in LEED and Envision certification processes.
He has also helped advance the firm’s long-term sustainability agenda, including an ambitious sustainable development policy, office carbon neutrality, and mobility-focused initiatives, supporting architecture that delivers enduring environmental and social value.