Built on a decade of hands-on green-building delivery. Made for every project that comes next.

Built on deep expertise

Urbanistas is founded on a decade-plus of hands-on LEED and multi-system certification delivery — work that took some of the most complex, first-of-their-kind projects from early concept through final certification. That is the foundation we build upon.

The depth of that delivery record is the experience behind us:

• 34 projects across the full LEED roster, spanning BD+C, O+M, ID+C, and Homes.
• 8.6M sq ft of total LEED project area contributed.
• 13 LEED Platinum certifications across BD+C, O+M, and ID+C.
• Bulgaria's first LEED Platinum (v4 ID+C) commercial interior, and Bulgaria's first LEED Platinum (v4 O+M) existing building.
• Pioneering work in an emerging market — among the earliest LEED-certified buildings in Bulgaria.

This is the expertise Urbanistas is built on — a decade-plus of hands-on LEED delivery from our founder, Boyka Ognyanova, M.Arch., that the firm continues to build upon.

That expertise carries a working command of LEED 2009, v4/v4.1, and the emerging v5; the credentials to back it — LEED AP BD+C, LEED AP ID+C, WELL AP, EDGE Auditor/Expert, and GreenPoint Rated New Homes Rater. As USGBC Faculty — one of around 180 in the program worldwide — and a USGBC Approved Instructor for LEED v5 BD+C and LEED v5 O+M, she authors and teaches the education USGBC publishes, has guest-lectured at University of California Berkeley Extension, and serves as a GBCI LEED AP Subject Matter Expert helping develop the LEED accreditations.

Before sustainability intelligence, Urbanistas built its name organising some of Bulgaria's most ambitious architectural competitions and cultural events — convening architects, municipalities, and institutions around the future of the built environment. See our earlier work →

What independent professionals say

We did not assemble this reputation on our own account of it. Independent professionals who have worked with us — supervisors, engineers, owner-representatives, and client-side project managers across different countries and roles — describe the same pattern, from very different vantage points.

They describe exceptional mastery of LEED across New Construction, Core & Shell, and Warehouse & Distribution — and a calm, integrative leadership style that makes complex teams of architects, engineers, and investors work toward the same goal.

They describe capacity-building that "outlasts any single project," an uncompromising stance on data integrity, and the ability to explain difficult technical questions to non-technical owners in a way that leads to better decisions.

That convergence — from people with no incentive to agree — is the foundation Urbanistas builds upon.