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Greg Andrews, U.S. Department of Energy, Atlanta Regional Office
Greg Andrews is a Project Manager at the U.S. Department of Energy, Atlanta Regional Office. Since joining DOE in 1999, he has served as Regional Team Lead for the Rebuild America Program. He is a graduate of Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia and Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington, Indiana. For the past 20 years, he has served on a number of organizations in the area of energy and environmental policy, including the Consumers' Utility of Georgia and the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.
Steve Andrews, E-Star Colorado
Steve Andrews works part-time as Senior Technical Officer for E-Star Colorado. He also works independently as a free-lance writer and energy consultant - something he's done for the last 23 years. He's had some 200+ articles appear in trade publications such as Builder, Journal of Light Construction, Energy Design Update and more. He also speaks frequently on the broader energy resource issues involving natural gas and petroleum liquids.
Rosemarie Bartlett, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Rosemarie Bartlett is the Training Manager for the Building Energy Codes Program (BECP) for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and has over 12 years experience in building energy efficiency. Rosemarie is responsible for training and outreach efforts for the implementation of national energy codes. She has developed curricula and training programs for the International Energy Conservation Code, ANSI/ASHRAE/ IESNA Standard 90.1-1999, and for BECP products. She is responsible for quality assurance testing of the BECP compliance tools and also participates on the development team, providing direction and assistance with the tools' support materials. She also provides technical support in the planning and coordination of the BECP National Workshop. She has a B.A. in Business Administration from Eastern Washington University. She is a member of the Association of Energy Engineers and is a Certified Energy Manager.
James C. Benney, National Fenestration Rating Council
Jim Benney has been in the window and glass industry for over 20 years. He has served as the Manager of Technical Services for the Window and Door Manufacturers Association and as Technical Director for the Primary Glass Manufacturers Council. He currently is the Director of Education for the National Fenestration Rating Council. Jim has a B.S. Degree in Forest Management from the University of Missouri.
Jean J. Boulin, U.S. Department of Energy
Jean J. Boulin is responsible for commercial building energy codes in the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Building Technology Assistance. Jean has managed a number of the Department's research programs, including walls, roofs, and windows and daylighting. Since 1984 he has been responsible for the Department's building energy codes and standards activities. Jean earned his master of architecture degree at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Thomas J. Carty, Peachtree City
Tom Carty is a 30 year Peachtree City resident. He is an electrician by trade and the chief building official for Peachtree City since 1994. Tom is presently a Director for the Building Officials Association of Georgia, Past President of West Georgia's Inspectors Association and was selected as Building Official of the Year, 2002 for the state of Georgia by the Building Officials Association of Georgia. Tom has served on numerous national and states code committees. He is also a veteran of the U.S. Army, married 40 years to his wife "Trudy" and has three children and four grandchildren. Tom's favorite quote is "Let me tell you about the grandkids!"
Laura Case, Emory University
Laura Case is a Project Manager with Emory University. She managed the Whitehead Research Building Project, Atlanta's first LEED Silver Certified Building. Laura has worked four years on the Emory Campus and eleven years with the Georgia Building Authority as a Project Manager.
Laura has a degree in civil engineering from Southern Polytech, and is a LEED Accredited Professional. Laura is a member of the Emory Committee on the Environment and serves on the board of the Local U.S. Green Building Council.
David Cohan, Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance
David Cohan is the project coordinator for codes and standards for the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance. David has worked in the energy efficiency field for twelve years, nine of them as a consultant and the past three as an Alliance staff member. He took over the codes and standards work two years ago without previous experience in the area. His primary duties at the Alliance are in the evaluation group. David holds an MS in Energy Management and Policy from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in Literature from the University of California, San Diego.
Pam Cole, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Pam Cole is a Science & Engineering Associate in the Energy Technology Division. Pam is responsible for providing technical energy code-related assistance through the BECP Hotline. She manages the BECP Deployment Stakeholder Conferences task for the DOE-BECP exhibit booth to attend builder, code official, and other stakeholder conferences to demonstrate, discuss, and distribute REScheck and COMcheck compliance materials, plus other program technical products and materials. Pam also manages the BECP Setting the Standard newsletter task to deliver important energy code-related information to approximately 30,000 builders, engineers, architects, code officials and others.
Ronald B. Conners, Winslow Homes
Ronald B. Conners, PhD is President and CEO of Winslow Homes, a developer/builder firm that focuses on high performance residential communities. Dr. Conners is also President/CEO of Winslow Investments, a financial and strategic management-consulting firm that invests in and provides strategic management services to firms developing mid-level residential communities. Dr. Conners has an extensive teaching, writing and consulting background. He holds an M.A. and PhD in Economics with specializations in Urban Economics, Health Economics and Industrial Organization and has taught graduate level courses in Strategic Management at the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University and various Applied Economics graduate courses in the Department of Health Policy and Management of the Graduate School of Public Health at Columbia University in New York.
Dennis Creech, Southface Energy Institute
Mr. Creech is a co-founder of the Southface Energy Institute, a private nonprofit organization conducting education and research in energy, sustainable technologies, and applied building sciences. He has served as Executive Director for over 20 years.
He is a nationally recognized leader in the energy and sustainable development fields. He directed the development of EarthCraft House - Sensibly Built for the Environment. EarthCraft is a voluntary, market-based green builder program sponsored by the Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association, Southface, government and private industry.
Mr. Creech has served on the Board of Directors of the Energy Efficient Building Association, Affordable Comfort, and the Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association, and on numerous policy bodies including the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority Neighborhood and Environment Task Force, the Georgia Advisory Panel on Climate Change, and the Georgia Energy Codes Committee. Mr. Creech has been an Adjunct Professor in the Human and Natural Ecology Program at Emory University and was named 1999 Environmental Professional of the Year by the Georgia Environmental Council.
Mr. Creech frequently speaks on energy and environmental topics ranging from "green" building products to creating sustainable communities, and often serves as a media spokesperson. His "House Doctor" column is a regular feature of the Atlanta Journal Constitution, and he is a frequent contributor to trade publications ranging from Environmental Design and Construction to Solar Today.
In 1996, Mr. Creech directed a project to design and construct the Southface Energy and Environmental Resource Center, a state-of-the-art demonstration facility featuring over 100 energy and resource efficient technologies. The Resource Center has been featured worldwide in over 150 media stories and has hosted meetings for groups ranging from the President's Council on Sustainable Development to local affordable housing advocates.
Before co-founding Southface, Mr. Creech was a research associate with the Georgia Tech Engineering Experiment Station and Deputy Director of Atlanta 2000, a nonprofit regional planning organization. He has also worked as a field ecologist conducting research on nutrient cycling in forest ecosystems. He lives in an environmentally-restored 1950s ranch-style home.
Eric M. DeVito, Brickfield, Burchette, Ritts & Stone
Mr. DeVito is an attorney with Brickfield, Burchette, Ritts & Stone in Washington, DC. He represents the firm's manufacturing and rural electric cooperative clients in state and federal regulatory proceedings, utility programs, and legislative initiatives, particularly those relating to energy-efficient building products. He has been actively involved in the development of state and national model building and energy codes, has worked with federal agencies and national interest groups on proposed tax credit legislation and various energy efficiency programs, such as the ENERGY STAR program, and has actively participated in the development of utility demand side management, standard offer, market transformation, and other incentive programs. He is also a certified public accountant and has analyzed tax rate structures, tax incentives, and economic development programs relating to the citing of new manufacturing facilities, and has represented industrial clients in obtaining customer-specific power rates.
Mike DeWein, Building Codes Assistance Project
Mike DeWein is the technical director of the Building Codes Assistance Project, a collaborative effort of the Alliance to Save Energy, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. He has been in the energy-efficiency business for most of his life, first as a builder and an alternative energy retailer, later joining the New York State Energy Office to assist with its energy code outreach and implementation programs. Mike was instrumental in the development of the NYSTAR home energy rating program and was project manager for several NYSEO programs, including State Facilities Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy and Building Commissioning. He serves on many national code and energy efficiency boards and committees, including the HERS Council Technical Committee, the NY State Energy Code Advisory Committee, and the Board of Directors of the Energy and Environmental Building Association (EEBA).
Heather Dillon, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Heather is a mechanical engineer in the Energy Technology Division at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Her experiences on the Building Energy Codes Program include involvement in gathering stakeholder feedback on tools, developing on-line permitting tools, assisting code change processes, and developing beyond code materials. Heather is pleased to be working with building energy codes and enjoys meeting energy code users from different regions.
Molly A. Dwyer, U.S. Department of Energy, Seattle Regional Office
Molly Dwyer has been a member of the Seattle Regional Office for seven years. She is the Regional Program Manager for the Building Energy Codes Program. Mrs. Dwyer is also the Administrator for all Special Projects grants in the Seattle Regional Office. Prior to joining the staff in Seattle, she served in the New York Regional Office for 15 years, managing several programs including the Institutional Conservation Program.
John Eash, California Energy Commission
John Eash is a licensed architect and has worked in the energy field since 1985. He currently works as an Energy Specialist for the California Energy Commission. In 1999 he began to develop the Commission's "Online Training Series." In 2000, he wrote and began managing a contract to provide online training videos on California's energy code. Using public and private funding he has produced more than 100 online streaming (and downloadable) videos housed at www.energyvideos.com. These videos, which are 3 to 15 minutes each in length, also contain generic information on constructing energy-efficient buildings located in any climate. The web site also contains text related to the videos that describes the relevant code, benefits of the energy-efficient device or system, answers frequently asked questions, and provides direct links to many Department of Energy and other pertinent web sites and documents. As part of the web-based training project, a live, eight-hour online pilot "Webcast," that included live audio/video along with real-time Power Point slides mixed with recorded video, was produced on January 15 and is currently available for viewing on the web site. John is also the Energy Efficiency and Demand Analysis Division's lead for providing training to building departments on the energy code and has personally trained more than 4,000 building department personnel. He has been editor of the Commission's Blueprint, California's energy code newsletter, helped the City of Irvine develop a special energy program, and has conducted many complaint investigations related to the code.
Tim Eastling, U.S. Department of Energy, Atlanta Regional Office
Tim Eastling has worked at the Atlanta Regional Office of the Department of Energy almost since its beginning. Before stepping on the energy codes whirlwind in July 2001, he worked with industrial programs for nearly 7 years. Prior to that, he worked with states, schools, hospitals, and local agencies to retrofit schools, hospitals, and low-income houses to become more energy efficient. He also worked with states in their broader energy efficiency programs. He has visited many buildings and industries in 10 states to observe the work funded by grants he administered. Advocationally, he is involved in music and travels internationally when time and money allow - 48 countries so far. He received a BA in political science from Georgia State University, an MA in international politics from The University of Texas, and a diploma in Energy Management from North Carolina State University and Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He has also taken many courses in energy efficiency and became a Certified Energy Manager.
David Eisenberg, Development Center for Appropriate Technology
David Eisenberg is Director of the Development Center for Appropriate Technology in Tucson, Arizona. His 20+ years of construction experience include troubleshooting construction of the steel and glass cover of Biosphere 2 and building with structural concrete, structural steel, masonry, wood, adobe, rammed earth, and straw bale. He currently leads a broad-based collaborative effort, "Building Sustainability into the Codes," with the goal of creating a sustainable context for building regulation. He is Vice-Chair of the ASTM E-06.71 Subcommittee on sustainability for buildings, where he leads a task group developing ASTM standards for low-environmental impact building materials. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the U.S. Green Building Council, serves on the Advisory Board of Environmental Building News, and is a member of the Tucson/Pima County Joint Building Code Committee.
Gary Epstein, Energy & Resource Solutions
Gary Epstein is the President and founder of Energy & Resource Solutions (ERS). He has interdisciplinary skills in the energy engineering and environmental consulting fields. His current work and areas of expertise include: energy technology characterization, research and assessment; energy code development and consulting; assessment of environmental impacts of energy use and conservation; and development, planning and evaluation of utility and government resource conservation programs.
During recent years, Mr. Epstein has spent considerable time providing consulting services in support of enhanced compliance with new energy codes. His firm has been a leader in developing programs for peer-to-peer, circuit rider energy code technical assistance, having provided nearly 200 support sessions in the past year. He is currently leading ERS.
Mr. Epstein is the chair of the Association of Energy Service Professionals (AESP) Energy Technology Committee. He is also a U.S. Green Building Council LEED Accredited Professional. His work has been published in the ASHRAE Journal and Transactions, Energy Engineering, ACEEE Summer Studies, and in numerous other conference proceedings and publications. Mr. Epstein holds a Master Degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Massachusetts.
Philip Fairey, Florida Solar Energy Center
Philip Fairey is Interim Director of the Florida Solar Energy Center (FSEC). He graduated from Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina, with a BA in Architecture in 1969 and a Master's degree in City and Regional Planning in 1975.
In 1980, Mr. Fairey initiated the building science research program at FSEC. Since then, he has had primary responsibility for 30 major building science research contracts totaling more than $11 million. He has extensive experimental and analytical expertise in the fields of moisture transport and control, pressure and air flow control, indoor air quality (IAQ), building envelope systems, cooling and dehumidification systems, natural ventilation systems, energy-efficient building design, industrialized housing systems, utility Demand Side Management (DSM), building energy-efficiency rating systems, and computer simulation and modeling. Mr. Fairey conceived and developed the Florida Building Energy-Efficiency Rating System and led the development of EnergyGauge, a user-friendly, windows-based software tool for code compliance, energy ratings and economic analysis. He also initiated and led the development of a sophisticated building simulation software research tool, FSEC 3.0, capable of accurately simulating complex building science phenomena in detail. He has received two U.S. Patents in the field of photocatalytic detoxification.
Mr. Fairey is a member of ASHRAE where he has served as Research Subcommittee Chairman of TC 4.4 on Thermal and Moisture Retarders, and as Chairman of TC 4.9 on Building Envelope Systems and is currently serving on SPC 140, "Standard Method of Test for the Evaluation of Building Energy Analysis Computer Programs." He has also served as a member of ASTM C-16, where he chaired the Task Group that developed ASTM Standard C-1158 on Radiant Barrier Systems. He is an affiliate member of the National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO) and served as a member of the National HERS Council Technical Committee and the Technical and Accreditation Committees of NASEO. He currently serves on the Florida Building Commission Energy Technical Advisory Committee and on a number of RESNET committees where he is chairman of the Training Providers Accreditation Committee, Co-chair of the Standards Drafting Committee and Chairman of the Software Accreditation Subcommittee on the rating method. He is a founding member of the Florida Green Building Coalition (FGBC).
Mr. Fairey is author or co-author of four books and more than 80 technical articles, research reports and general information documents. He has been featured on CNN and CBS News and on three Educational TV programs of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. He received the National Award for Innovation in Research from the U.S. Department of Energy in 1984 and the University of Central Florida's highest award for research in 1987. He has testified before the U.S. Congress and the Florida Legislature, and occasionally serves as an expert witness on matters of building forensics and has been qualified by the Courts as a Building Science Expert.
Tom Fitzpatrick, Energy Systems Laboratory of Texas A&M University
Tom Fitzpatrick is a Registered Architect and has been a leader in the application of system planning principles to real estate and construction issues for over 25 years. Tom is an energy code specialist in the Implementation Team for Senate Bill 5. Tom is a board member of Texas Solar Energy Society and the Texas Building Energy Institute and until recently served as TBEI's Executive Director and managed its successful energy code promotion and education efforts over the past several years. He has provided support on energy code issues to local governments and legislative staff, provided training for designers, builders and building officials and has hosted numerous consensus-building meetings and events to facilitate understanding, development, and effective implementation of building energy codes. Previously, Tom served as the Director of the Office of Facility Planning for the Texas General Services Commission and as Director of Programming for 3D/International, a large design and management firm based in Houston, Texas.
Paul J. Gaynor, Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest
Paul J. Gaynor is a Senior Attorney with the Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest (ELPC), located in Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Gaynor is the Project Manager for ELPC's effort to have the State of Illinois adopt an energy-efficient building code for all new residential and commercial construction. Mr. Gaynor also works on ELPC's Midwest Transportation and Land Use Reform Projects. Prior to joining ELPC, Mr. Gaynor was a partner with the law firm of Schwartz, Cooper, Greenberger & Krauss in Chicago. J.D., Northwestern University School of Law, 1990; B.A., University of Wisconsin, 1985.
Jay E. Hakes, Jimmy Carter Presidential Library
Jay E. Hakes served as Administrator of the Energy Information Administration, the independent data and analytic arm of the U.S. Department of Energy, from 1993 to 2000. During that period, he oversaw the development of EIA's award-winning web site and the publication of major studies ranging from long-term oil reserves to the costs of limiting emissions of greenhouse gases. He has testified before congressional committees on energy issues on over 25 occasions and has briefed major officials throughout the U.S. government and around the world.
Dr. Hakes currently serves as the Director of the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library in Atlanta, Georgia - one of ten presidential libraries in the federal system. The Library contains the records of the Carter presidency, used by scholars studying the period, and a museum open to the public. The Museum frequently hosts traveling exhibits of major national significance. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from Duke University and began his career teaching at the University of New Orleans.
Mark Halverson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Mark Halverson is a Senior Research Engineer in the Energy Division at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. For the past 15 years, Mark has supported building energy code and energy efficiency programs. Recent activities include development of consensus and Federal standards, energy code training, analysis of energy savings associated with codes and standards, facilitation of energy saving performance contracts, and measurement and verification. He is currently supporting DOE's Building Energy Codes Program and Federal Energy Management Program. He works closely with ASHRAE's SSPC 90.1, is a member of ASHRAE's Code Interaction Subcommittee, and is a member of the FEMP M&V team. Mark has a Master of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Washington and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering from Montana State University. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Washington and a Certified Energy Manager.
Robert W. Hammon, Ph.D., ConSol
Rob Hammon has over 20 years of experience in energy-efficient design and construction. He has pioneered energy efficiency as a market driver for quality construction and market-driven, voluntary energy-efficiency programs. He is responsible for quality-construction protocols for insulation, air sealing, windows, and heating, cooling and ventilation systems. He has also developed builder protocols for use and installation of residential photovoltaic systems.
Rob has had primary responsibility for developing and delivering the nationally recognized Builder Energy Code Training Program provided by the Building Industry Institute. Rob and his company, ConSol, were the technical consultants to CBIA during the last three energy code updates. Most recently, Rob has been training builders and building departments on the changes to Title 24 as a result of AB 970. ConSol has been involved in the building industry at the local, state and national levels since 1981 and continues to assist the building industry in finding cost-effective methods to comply with state energy codes. In 1997 ConSol won the ENERGY STAR Home Ally of the Year award. Southern Nevada Home Builders Association named Rob as their Associate of the Year in 1997.
Under Rob's guidance, ConSol has recently been awarded contracts with the U.S. Department of Energy to work on the Building America and Zero Energy Home programs. For the Building America program, Rob has assembled an extensive team called the Building Industry Research Alliance who will work to help production builders build homes 40% to 70% more efficient than typical new homes. The goal of the Zero Energy Home program is to be building communities by 2010 that generate as much energy as they consume. Rob currently has four builders building communities that are well on their way toward this goal.
Monte Hewett, Monte Hewett Homes, LLC
Monte Hewett began his quest for excellence in 1988 vowing "we will do what we say we will do." Fifteen years later, Monte is still maintaining his commitment and gaining respect - this is evidenced by the company building every home to EarthCraft House specifications and having every one tested for air infiltration and duct leakage prior to occupancy by the new homeowner.
Billy G. Hinton, Jr., North Carolina Department of Insurance, Engineering Division
Billy G. Hinton, Jr., PE, is a Building Code Consultant for the North Carolina Department of Insurance, Engineering Division. Billy has been employed with the North Carolina Department of Insurance, Engineering Division for approximately 8 years and previously worked as a power plant design engineer for a public utility for approximately 13 years. Billy presently provides interpretation and instruction of the NC State Building Code, Volume II Plumbing, Volume III Mechanical, Volume VI Gas, Volume VII Residential, and Volume X Energy. Billy serves on the engineering staff of the NC Building Code Council and the NC Code Officials Qualification Board and is working on adhoc committees appointed by the Council to study issues addressing moisture and mold in buildings and changes to minimum fixture requirements for plumbing. Billy also serves on the ASHRAE 90.1 and 90.2 Energy Standards Project Committees and on the International Mechanical Code Development Committee.
Ward S. Huffman, U.S. Department of Energy
Ward has been with the U.S. Department of Energy for approximately ten years. He is currently the lead on
Bio-energy as a Senior Financial Specialist. In this position, he has been consulting with communities throughout the continental United States on matters of energy efficiency, renewable energy and sustainable development. As a result of this consulting, Ward recognized a need for grant writing education in communities. To help satisfy this need, he established a series of Grant Writing Seminars to teach the communities how to find, apply for, and get grant money.
In 1998, he became special liaison to the Federal Emergency Management Agency to assist them in developing a program of Sustainable Disaster Recovery and Mitigation. He has worked with communities in Ohio, West Virginia, Colorado, Texas, and New Mexico assisting them with sustainable disaster recovery. As part of this program, he has presented papers to the American Planning Association, the National Floodplain Managers National Conference, the International Association of River Basin Managers Conference, and the Monolithic Dome Institute Conference. In 1998 the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, requested him to teach in the Community Stewardship Academy. During these Academies, he presented Sustainable Community Concepts to a number of groups representing six counties.
Ward is also an instructor for the University of Phoenix. He teaches finance and financial analysis for graduates and undergraduates in business. His academic credentials include an MBA, Finance, University of Colorado, 1996; an MBA, Marketing, University of Colorado, 1996; and a BA, University of Colorado, 1968. He is currently a doctoral candidate at Nova Southeastern University in finance and has an expected completion date of June 2003.
Ward has a very diversified career background. He is a retired Air Force pilot with 124 combat missions, was a commercial airline pilot for Eastern Airlines, an auditor for the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Energy, a real estate appraiser and series seven securities dealer.
Bruce D. Hunn, ASHRAE
Bruce D. Hunn has been Director of Technology at the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air- Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) since 1997. He directs the 15-person Technology Department staff in support of ASHRAE.
From 1983-97 he headed the Building Energy Systems Program at the Center for Energy Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where he planned, directed, and participated in research programs addressing energy use in buildings. Research was conducted in energy analysis of buildings, advanced cooling systems, fenestration systems, standards development, thermal energy storage, and solar resource assessment.
Hunn holds a B.A. in Engineering from the University of Redlands and B.S., M.S., and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. Dr. Hunn has authored or co-authored more than 105 articles, technical reports, and papers, as well as eight books or chapters in books, on energy use in buildings and solar energy applications.
Ray Ivy, Masco Environments for Living
Ray Ivy developed an interest in energy-efficient homes in 1993, the year he bought his first home. Ray renovated homes in Birmingham, AL from 1993 until 2001. Ray started High Performance Home Energy Services in Pensacola, FL in 2001, working with local builders and Gulf Power to do ENERGY STAR ratings on new homes and retrofit existing homes. Ray was hired by Masco to develop and manage the Environments for Living program in Atlanta in 2002. Ray currently works with builders to help them build healthy, safe, comfortable, durable and energy-efficient homes, then market the improved product to consumers. Ray became Chairperson of Construction and Board Member of Habitat Dekalb in 2002, designing and building leading-edge affordable housing.
Jeff A. Johnson, New Buildings Institute
Jeffrey A. Johnson is Executive Director for the New Buildings Institute. Mr. Johnson has over 20 years experience in building energy codes, building science research and developing educational products and services for the building design and construction industry. Mr. Johnson was the former Manager of the Building Technology Program and the Building Standards and Guidelines Program at Battelle. Prior to joining Battelle, Mr. Johnson was the project lead for the Nonresidential Standards at the California Energy Commission. He is a graduate of Sonoma State University's Environmental Studies and Planning Department. His international experience includes assisting codes and standards development in Canada, India and Mexico.
Larry Kinney, Southwest Energy Efficiency Project
Larry Kinney is a Senior Researcher with the Southwest Energy Efficiency Project where he is responsible for the assessment of building energy use, codes and standards, and energy conservation program planning and evaluation. Active in energy conservation-related research for 30 years, he has broad experience in weatherization program operations, energy-efficient refrigeration, lighting and daylighting technologies, air handling and conditioning systems, and controls. He also has experience in energy efficiency program evaluation, from instrumentation design and analysis to policy research. Larry did undergraduate work in Physics and Philosophy at Rhodes College and holds a PhD in Philosophy from Syracuse University. He is the author of over 100 articles and reports to clients and holds a U.S. Patent on an active daylighting system.
Jim Larsen, Cardinal Glass Industries
Jim has the unusual title of "Director, Technology Marketing". Relying on his 20+ years experience in the research and development of glass products, Jim's primary responsibility is supporting the recognition of energy-efficient windows through codes at both the state and national level. Jim also provides product support to customers through web site development, new brochures, and on-site training.
Mr. Larsen has a mechanical engineering degree, is a member of ASHRAE, a past chairman of the ASTM insulating glass subcommittee, and is currently on the board of directors for the National Fenestration Rating Council.
Felix A. Lopez, Texas State Energy Conservation Office (SECO)
Felix is a Professional Engineer (P.E.) licensed in Texas and works as the Senior Engineer of SECO. He provides technical support for various energy conservation programs like the LoanSTAR Loan program, the Renewable Energy program, the School and Local Government program, and the Housing Trust Fund program of the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs. He is the Program Administrator for the State Agencies program which includes the Codes and Standards and the Texas Design Standard for state-funded buildings. He has 12 years of experience working with energy conservation which include 7 years with the Bonneville Power Administration of the U.S. Department of Energy, and the last 5 years with SECO. Following the passage of Senate Bill 5 of the 77th Texas Legislature, Felix is in charge of the education and outreach workshops on residential and commercial energy codes that SECO is providing statewide.
Darren Meyers, International Code Council, Inc.
Darren Meyers has more than 8 years of experience working on the development and interpretation of residential and commercial building energy codes, representing the ICC as the Secretariat to the 1998 and 2000 editions and liaison to the 2003 edition of the ICC International Energy Conservation Code (IECC). As a former Senior Staff Engineer for BOCA, and now Manager of Contracts & Consulting for ICC A&E Services, Darren is an integral member of the technical service team. His responsibilities cut across a broad range of ICC business; including the review of construction documents for code compliance, verbal and written correspondence, energy curriculum and code development, targeted support for implementing energy policy at regional, state and local levels and the administration of contracts requiring ICC to support the City of Chicago.
John P. Millhone, Office of Weatherization and Intergovernmental Programs (OWIP)
John P. Millhone is the Program Manager Designate of the Office of Weatherization and Intergovernmental Programs (OWIP) in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) of the U.S. Department of Energy. OWIP is responsible for EERE's Weatherization Assistance Program, State Energy Program, Community Partnerships, major deployment activities, and international and Native American activities.
Since 1996, he has held positions in the U.S. Climate Change program as Director of the U.S. Initiative on Joint Implementation and Director of the U.S. Country Studies Program. Drawing on the U.S. experiences, the programs showed developing and transition countries how energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies can reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Prior to that, he took a two-year sabbatical from DOE to the Battelle/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, where he was a Senior Fellow in the Advanced International Studies Unit. He was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Building Technologies, responsible for DOE's building research and regulatory programs from 1979 to 1994. Before joining DOE, he was director of the Minnesota and Iowa state energy offices. His earlier career was in journalism with the Associated Press, Detroit Free Press and Des Moines Register and Tribune. He has a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and has done graduate work in law and political science.
Long active in international activities, he was chairman of the End Use Working Party of the International Energy Agency (IEA) from 1979 to 1985. He was chairman of the IEA's Conference on End-Use Technologies and their Commercialization in Berlin in 1981 and editor of the three-volume proceedings of the conference. He helped create the IEA's Center for the Analysis and Demonstration of Demonstrated Energy Technologies (CADDET)and was the first vice-chairman of the CADDET Executive Committee.
He is a frequent speaker and writer on energy efficiency projects. In 1994, he received a Certificate of Appreciation from the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) for his support ofthe U.S. building standards program. In 1994, the U.S. Energy Association named him the U.S. public servant ofthe year. He was the Coordinating Lead Author for the Building Sector Chapter of the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report on "Technologies, Policies, and Measures for Mitigating Climate Change."
While directing the Iowa and Minnesota energy offices, he served as staff chairman of the Energy Committee of the National Governors Association (NGA) and represented NGA in the development of regulations for implementing the Federal legislation enacted in the years following the 1973 OPIC oil embargo. During that period, he was appointed to the Fuel Oil Marketing Advisory Committee and elected its chairman. The Committee was asked to arbitrate charges that the oil companies violated price controls in effect at that time. While the arbitration was taking place, the oil companies negotiated a settlement with DOE which created the Petroleum Violation Escrow Account that provided funding for state energy offices.
Chuck Murray, Washington State University Energy Program
Mr. Murray is the Energy and Ventilation Code technical specialist for the WSU Energy Program and serves on the Washington State Building Code Council's technical advisory committees for Energy and Ventilation. Recent activities of interest include authoring and advocating for progressive changes to the Washington State Energy Code and Washington State Ventilation and Indoor Air Quality Code. He is also the primary developer for state energy code residential implementation guides and software. Later this summer, Mr. Murray will establish a new University research station to analyze hygrothermal responses of building assemblies in the wet Pacific Northwest.
Jim Ploger, Kansas Corporation Commission
Mr. Ploger has been with the Kansas Energy Office for over 13 years. Under his leadership, Kansas had one of the first Home Energy Ratings System (HERS) programs certified under the national RESNET certification program. The Kansas Energy Office has been a leader in building energy codes and standards. Recently, Kansas became the first state to adopt the 2003 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC), effective July 1, 2003. The new code also includes a HERS compliance component of 80%, the 16th state to include a HERS rating method of compliance. Kansas hosted the first national DOE Codes and Standards Conference held in 1998.
Jeff Ross-Bain, Southface Energy Institute
Jeff Ross-Bain, PE has over 22 years experience as a mechanical engineer, working primarily for consulting
engineering firms in the United States, Australia and England. His expertise includes the design and installation of mechanical systems, preparation of construction documents, construction site supervision, field-testing, commissioning, and maintenance management projects for a variety of commercial and industrial buildings. One of his commissioning projects was the Channel Tunnel between England and France, where he was responsible for monitoring the quality and progress of mechanical installation and final testing of the underground mechanical equipment.
At Southface, Jeff targets the commercial sector and is involved in several projects and oversees the U.S. Department of Energy's Million Solar Roofs initiative and the Energy Smart Schools program. Additionally, Jeff presents various talks and seminars on building energy codes, high performance design, and energy modeling. Jeff is currently assisting several design teams as a LEEDTM project administrator where he monitors the progress of the work and updates task list items to keep the work on track. Jeff provides additional services to the commercial building industry such as energy audits, energy modeling, design charrette facilitation, and general technical assistance. Jeff stays current with industry trends and technical developments and utilizes this research to assist in the development of sustainable workplaces and communities.
Doug Schanne, Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships
Douglas Schanne, Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships' (NEEP) Building Energy Codes Project Manager, develops and administers NEEP's regional building codes initiative which: supports states' residential and commercial energy code training activities; facilitates parallel residential and commercial building codes development activity between states; builds support for adoption of the most up-to-date model codes and standards in Northeast states, as well as promotes and supports industry changes in energy efficiency that will enable future building energy code upgrades. Doug also serves as an instructor for NEEP, developing and delivering building energy code training through NEEP's Building Operator Training and Certification Program.
Doug has over 15 years of experience in teaching, program planning, training-development as well as regulatory compliance in public and private sectors. He holds a bachelor's degree in Science from the University of Villanova and multiple certifications and licenses in Building Official Code Enforcement, Fire Marshal/Inspector, Hazardous Material Inspector and Air Sampling. He has extensive experience in environmental, safety and health issues associated with construction, commercial and industrial sites.
Karine A. Shamlian, U.S. Department of Energy, Philadelphia Regional Office
Karine Shamlian manages the Building Energy Codes Program for the U.S. Department of Energy's Philadelphia Regional Office (PRO). She has nine years experience in managing energy efficiency projects in both the public and private sectors. In addition to her duties for the BECP, Karine is also responsible for the ENERGY STAR Program at the PRO. Prior to her position with DOE, she served as a Professional Staff Member for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce where she gained considerable knowledge of the energy policymaking process. Karine managed several Weatherization projects for the Armenian Relief Society, Inc. which were funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development as part of relief and development efforts in the Republic of Armenia. She has a BA in Government from the College of William and Mary and a MPIA in Public and International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh.
Terry Shoemaker, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Terry Shoemaker is a Program Administrator in the Energy Division at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Over the past twelve years, Terry has worked on a variety of energy- and buildings-related programs. Terry manages the BECP National Workshop that focuses on providing states, industry, code proponents and stakeholder groups with an opportunity to learn about a variety of codes and standards issues. She also works on the Deployment Team assisting in design and distribution of marketing and communication materials providing awareness to DOE's building energy code efforts. Terry works closely with the U.S. DOE Regional Offices located in six major cities across the country.
Darren Stevenson, U.S. Department of Energy, Philadelphia Regional Office
Darren Stevenson currently serves as the Program Manager for both the Building Energy Codes Program and the State Energy Program at the U.S. Department of Energy, Philadelphia Regional Office, which covers the Mid-Atlantic Region (DE, DC, MD, NJ, PA, VA, WV). The Building Energy Codes Program serves the building industry by providing financial and technical assistance to states to update, implement and enforce their building energy codes thereby advancing and advocating energy-efficient and environmentally sound design and construction of buildings. The State Energy Program is a formula and competitive grant program which assists states in promoting and deploying energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies which cross all of the energy sectors including Buildings, Industrial, Utility, Transportation and Education. Darren has been at DOE since 1987 and was formerly the Program Manager for the Institutional Conservation Program and the Weatherization Program. Darren is a graduate of West Chester University with a degree in Liberal Studies.
Dan Strout, U.S. Department of Energy, Boston Regional Office
Dan Strout is a Building Energy Codes Program Manager at the U.S. Department of Energy's Boston Regional Office with over ten years experience in demand side management and energy efficiency. In this role, he also provides the Northeast regional states technical support for the ENERGY STAR buildings program and energy-efficient new construction initiatives. Dan's other energy experiences include financial and engineering feasibility analyses, program design/implementation, and project management of diverse demand-side management projects for multi-class electric and natural gas utility sectors. From a regulatory perspective, Dan has experience in the review and analysis of utility forecast and supply plans, mergers and acquisitions, power supply arrangements, finance projects, and energy-efficiency programs.
Muthusamy V. Swami, Florida Solar Energy Center
Dr. Muthusamy Swami holds a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering and has been with the Florida Solar Energy
Center (FSEC) since 1982. He is currently a Project Director and leads the analytical research and software capability development at the Center. Dr. Swami has over 21 years experience in the development of scientific and application software. He possesses significant expertise in the development and verification of detailed numerical simulation tools. He is presently managing the development of a building energy code, rating, analyses and registration application software using state-of-the-art development and database tools for the state of Florida. He possesses in-depth knowledge of mathematical models and numerical algorithms in the areas of heat, mass, specie and momentum transport to develop efficient computer codes and is extremely familiar with the working and use of several state-of-the-art models for analyzing building energy and indoor air quality. His buildings-related research has addressed radon entry, transport and dispersal, radiant energy transfer, pressure coefficient correlations for natural ventilation, and combined thermal and moisture storage, energy code development/update, and compliance and rating software development.
Ruth Taylor, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Ruth Taylor is a Senior Research Engineer in the Energy Technology Division at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. After receiving her degree in Environmental Design from the Architecture Department of Texas A&M University, Ruth Taylor joined the Laboratory in working to evaluate the economic and environmental impactsof building energy standards. Her work included use of complex building energy simulation tools and analysis in support of whole building performance-based energy standards. Ruth then started her own architectural firm and spent ten years in the field of residential architecture. In 1999, Ruth rejoined the Laboratory, where she manages deployment activities for the Building Energy Codes Program.
Todd Taylor, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Todd Taylor is a Senior Research Engineer at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. He has 19 years' experience developing and analyzing residential energy codes, including HUD's Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards, ASHRAE's Standard 90.2, DOE's various federal and voluntary energy standards, and the Model Energy Code/International Energy Conservation Code. He was a primary developer of DOE's MECcheck/REScheck code compliance software and has managed or contributed to the development of numerous DOE software tools for building energy analysis and/or energy code development. Mr. Taylor also specializes in large-scale simulation analysis, planning and analysis of building energy metering studies, and the computational aspects of analyzing large energy datasets.
Alison Tribble, Program Manager, Alliance to Save Energy
Alison Tribble is a Program Manager at the Alliance to Save Energy in Washington, DC. Founded in 1977, the Alliance to Save Energy is a non-profit organization which promotes energy efficiency worldwide to achieve a healthier economy, a cleaner environment and energy security.
Alison's commitment to the environment is a result of growing up on a small dairy farm in West Virginia, where resource efficiency was an important part of every-day life. Since her farming days, Alison has moved on to help others understand the importance of using our resources more efficiently.
Alison joined the Alliance to Save Energy after completing her degree in environmental economics and policy at the University of California at Berkeley where she focused her studies on energy and water resource policy.
Currently, Alison's primary responsibilities at the Alliance are focused on the Efficient Windows Collaborative, a market transformation project that aims to increase the penetration of energy-efficient window technologies in residential new construction and retrofit applications.
James Vaseff, Georgia Power
Mr. Vaseff is in Georgia Power's Community Development Department where he coordinates efforts in support of the economic development of the Company's major service territory, metropolitan Atlanta.
Mr. Vaseff was Manager, External Issues for the Georgia Power Company for seven years previous to coming to Community Development. In that capacity he initiated the Company's External Affairs Issues Identification Committee, which is still active and conducted other activities related to issue identification and management.
Before coming to that position in November of 1989, Mr. Vaseff was in Georgia Power's Community Development Department. There he worked for seven years with Georgia communities in downtown revitalization and commercial development. Before entering the electric utility industry, Mr. Vaseff was in private architectural practice in Boston, London, and North Carolina; taught at the College of Architecture, University of North Carolina Charlotte; and was with the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Mr. Vaseff is a licensed Architect, a graduate of the Boston Architectural Center, and was a Loeb Fellow in Advanced Environmental Studies at Harvard's Graduate School of Design. He has written articles on issues identification and management as well as articles related to the field of architecture and reuse of structures; photographed a book on Medieval cities, and made a short film on the design method of Frank Lloyd Wright.
He has been active in many civic and professional organizations. Mr. Vaseff is past Chairman of the Issue Management Council, the international organization of issue managers. He is President of the Georgia Council for International Visitors. He is a member of the Board of the Young Singers of Callanwolde. He is on the Board of the Midtown Atlanta Rotary Club. He is a member of the Alumni Advisory Council for Harvard's Graduate School of Design, and a member of the Board of the Waldorf School of Atlanta. He also serves on the State Codes Advisory Committee, and the State Planning Advisory Committee, the Next Generation Schools Steering Committee, the Regional Business Coalition Education and Research Work Group (addressing air quality), and is a member of the board of the Harvard Club of Georgia.
He lives in Decatur, Georgia with his wife and two daughters.
Alecia Ward, Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance
Alecia Ward serves as the Executive Director of the Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (MEEA) and is responsible for the development and overall management of the organization. Formed in 1999, MEEA is a regional network of organizations collaborating to promote energy efficiency. MEEA's vision is to be a leader in raising and sustaining the level of energy efficiency in the Midwest region by fostering increased market penetration of existing energy-efficient technologies and promoting new technologies, products and best practices, including renewable energy. Ms. Ward came to the Midwest from the Alliance to Save Energy in Washington, DC where she served as the Program Manager for the Efficient Windows Collaborative, a $1 million market transformation project designed to increase the penetration of efficient windows technologies in residential new construction and retrofit applications. Ms. Ward received her Bachelor's Degree (BA) in political science from Missouri Southern, and a Masters in Public Administration (MPA) from The George Washington University.
Bill Warren, BWES/Advanced Energy
Bill Warren is the project manager of the Crawl Space project, which is funded by U.S. DOE and co-funded and managed by Advanced Energy. In addition to managing day-to-day field test needs, Bill is currently developing best practice documentation, construction details and instructional materials to improve crawl space designs for new and existing construction. When he's not in crawl spaces, Bill provides program management, training, technical writing and consulting services on building performance issues.
David Weitz, Building Codes Assistance Project
David Weitz is Executive Director of the Building Codes Assistance Project. He previously spent five years with the Massachusetts State building code board where he worked closely with the Energy Office, utilities, and industry to support implementation of the state's energy code.
Bahman Yazdani, Energy Systems Laboratory of Texas A&M University
Bahman Yazdani, P.E., C.E.M., is Associate Director of the Energy Systems Laboratory (ESL) at Texas A&M
University System. He has over 26 years experience in the energy management and code administration field. As the Code Engineer for the City of Garland, Texas (1976-1980), Bahman designed, implemented, trained, and enforced the first Model Energy Code, based on ASHRAE Standard 90, in the State of Texas. Garland has continuously enforced the Model Energy Code since 1976. Bahman conducted a comprehensive study on the impact of the Model Energy Code on construction costs in residential, commercial and institutional buildings and made numerous presentations to the city council. He coordinated and instructed seminars on Model Energy Code compliance for builders, architects and engineers, building officials and building inspection staff; developed special simplified compliance forms; and reviewed the proposed residential and commercial building architectural and engineering plans to insure compliance with all building codes for permitting purposes. As an Energy Engineer with the Texas Engineering Extension Service at Texas A&M University, he provided on-site training and technical assistance to Texas cities for the adoption, training, and the enforcement of the Model Energy Code for six years (1980-1986). He has hands-on experience as an energy manager having served in that capacity for Dallas County, one of the largest counties in the state and for the Bryan, Texas, Independent School District with over 13,000 students and 1.7 million square feet of school facilities. As president of TEESI, an energy engineering consulting firm, for five years, Bahman helped implement the Texas LoanSTAR program, on which a path for the current Rebuild America-Texas project is modeled. As ESL Program Manager for the Rebuild America project he has been largely responsible for its successful implementation. As the Associate Director for the ESL, Bahman is directly responsible for the implementation of the ESL's legislative responsibilities under the Texas Senate Bill 5 provisions relating to the Texas Building Energy Performance Standards based on IECC 2000 energy codes as well as evaluating and reporting the impact of any amendments made by municipalities.