Building Something That Lasts: Alicia Singleton-Smoot Joins Maryland’s Green Building Council

By Katie Burdett, Project Coordinator & Trainer

Good work has a way of outlasting the room it happened in. For Alicia Singleton-Smoot, PMP, Program Manager at BITHGROUP, that idea runs through her newest role: a seat on the Maryland Green Building Council.

As of June 1, 2026, Alicia is serving a two-year term on the council, which advises and makes recommendations to the Department of General Services, the Governor of Maryland, and the General Assembly on how the State carries out its High-Performance Building Program. In practice, that puts her in the room where green building technology meets policy, helping chart the most realistic path for Maryland to reach its sustainability goals.

Alicia sees the appointment as recognition that reaches beyond her own work. “Clients don’t hand you their trust by accident,” she said. “They give it to a team that shows up, listens, and delivers services built on data rather than guesswork. This appointment tells me that reputation is real, and it’s now mine to carry forward on a bigger stage.”

Green building technology moves fast, and turning that momentum into standards that hold up in the real world is a harder problem than it looks from the outside. Alicia brings direct experience with that challenge. This year, she has helped state clients navigate MDBEPS verification, tracing how policy set at the federal level eventually lands on a state program and, ultimately, on an individual building.

“That vantage point taught me that good policy isn’t written once,” she said. “It’s tested, adjusted, and rewritten by people willing to stay close to the details. I plan to be one of those people on this council.”

The appointment is a natural extension of how BITHGROUP approaches every engagement: continuous improvement and creative problem-solving in service of the client in front of us. On the council, Alicia will apply that same instinct to the State of Maryland as a whole, giving back with the skills she uses every day.

Whether she’s sitting across from a client or across the table from state officials, Alicia is guided by words often attributed to Maya Angelou:

“People will soon forget what you said. They will NEVER forget how you made them feel.”

Buildings get measured in square footage, energy use, and performance data. But the council’s recommendations will eventually touch the people who work, learn, and live inside those buildings, and Alicia intends to keep them in view every time the council sits down to make a decision.

“I’m grateful to BITHGROUP for building the kind of team that earns opportunities like this one,” she said, “and I’m looking forward to representing that same standard for the next two years.”

About the Alicia Singleton-Smoot

Alicia Singleton-Smoot, PMP, is Program Manager at BITHGROUP. She was appointed to the Maryland Green Building Council in June 2026, where she will serve a two-year term advising on the implementation of the State’s High-Performance Building Program. Her recent work includes MDBEPS verification for state clients, and she brings that experience to BITHGROUP’s commitment to reliable, data-driven service delivery.