The Net-Zero Energy Buildings Conference
Innovation 2008

 

James J. Finley
James J. Finley is a Fellow at PPG Industries Glass Technical Center in Harmar Township, Pennsylvania, where he manages the Discovery Group. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

He joined PPG in 1981 and has conducted and led research and product development in the areas of thin films and materials technology, and product and process transfer into manufacturing. He received PPG¹s President¹s Award for Outstanding Technical Achievement in 2000 and in 2006. Dr. Finley is a member of PPG¹s Technical Collegium and was its past president. He holds 38 U.S. patents and has authored or coauthored technical presentations and publications in the area of low emissivity and solar control coatings.

 

Robert Forest, AIA, RIBA, OAA, LEED AP

Robert Forest has extensive knowledge and experience with the execution of projects on an international scale. A recognized authority on the economics of sustainable design, he has combined his knowledge of local and international policies, funding sources and varied economic models to develop a system of ‘best practices’ for the management of high-performance projects. Prior to founding Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture LLP in 2006, Bob was an Associate Partner in the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, and had previously worked at design firms in Toronto, Hong Kong and Osaka, Japan. Prior to beginning his architectural career, Bob played professional football for Canadian teams the Ottawa Rough Riders and Montreal Machine.

 

Mark Frisch, AIA
Principal at Solomon Cordwell Buenz

Mark Frisch, AIA, is a principal at Solomon Cordwell Buenz, and heads the firm¹s technical design program. His responsibilities include the integration of architecture with structure and buildings services, building enclosure strategies and new materials research. Before joining SCB in 1999, Mr. Frisch spent 16 years at Murphy/ Jahn in a variety of roles including director of production, where he was involved in a number of the firm¹s award winning projects. He received both his bachelor and master of architecture degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he was the recipient of the Long Traveling Fellowship. He recently team-taught a seminar in advanced topics in architectural technology, exploring modularity and prefabrication at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

 

Denzil Gallagher
Partner, MEP Regional Discipline Leader
Buro Happold North America

Denzil Gallagher specializes in environmental engineering and has contributed to award-winning sustainable design projects around the world.  These include the Danish National Opera House in Copenhagen, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center in New York, Genzyme Headquarters in Boston, and a number of very low energy/naturally ventilated buildings in Europe. Denzil joined Buro Happold in 1993 and moved to New York in 2002, where he is the partner responsible for the day-to-day operations of the MEP, sustainability and building analysis teams.

 

Gordon Gill, AIA

Gordon Gill has designed award-winning architecture across the globe. His work emphasizes a holistic approach to design that integrates all project disciplines. The results are performance based designs that work symbiotically with their natural surroundings- contributing to the sustainability of cities, augmenting the built landscape and creating an optimal user experience. Gordon’s work includes the design of the world’s first net Zero-Energy skyscraper, Pearl River Tower, and the first mixed-use positive energy building, the Masdar Headquarters. These landmark projects exemplify Gordon’s philosophy that architecture must strike a balance with its global environmental context. Prior to founding Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture LLP in 2006, Gordon was an Associate Partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP and a Director of Design for VOA Associates.

 

Stephen Hebeisen
Director of Engineering for MechoShade Systems, Inc.

Stephen Hebeisen is the Director of Engineering for MechoShade Systems, Inc. headquartered in Long Island City, NY.  Stephen has been developing communication systems for commercial and residential markets for almost 10 years.  He started these efforts working in the Lighting Industry for Leviton Manufacturing where he was hired to expand their core competencies into communication technology and control systems.  He served Leviton for over 4 years during which time period he was a driving influence in founding, establishing and managing the Building Automation Department, Home Automation Department and Leviton Integrated Networks.  As part of these efforts he was also the corporate representative for many industry standards committees including Lonmark, CEBUS/HPnP Industry Council, UPnP Forum, IEEE1394 and the Bluetooth SIG.  Stephen has a BSEE from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA and is a member of IEEE and HKN.

 

Glenn Hughes
President, Glenn Hughes Consulting Associates

Glenn Hughes recently formed Glenn Hughes Consulting Associates after retiring as managing director of construction for The New York Times. He directed the design, pre-purchasing, construction, testing and commissioning of The New York Times’ new headquarters building in Manhattan, as well as other major building construction projects around the U.S.

Prior to joining The New York Times Company, Mr. Hughes was a principal engineer at the architectural and engineering firm of Chas. T. Main, Inc., where he was resident engineer for the construction of the Times’ Edison, New Jersey, printing plant.  He also worked as a project manager at ARAMCO in Saudi Arabia for ten years, building high-voltage power systems. Mr. Hughes received BSEE and BA degrees from the University of Akron in 1974.

 

Christoph Ingenhoven
Ingenhoven Architekten

Christoph Ingenhoven was born in Düsseldorf in 1960. He studied architecture at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen and the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. In 1985, he founded Ingenhoven Architekten in Düsseldorf. As principal and design architect he works on every project. His firm is known for its open-minded working atmosphere, which stresses teamwork and open communications. The practice is multifaceted, working on office buildings, company headquarters, high-rises at home and abroad, department stores, industrial buildings, refurbishment, infrastructure and transportation, and master planning. Ingenhoven Architekten employs 110-people, at its headquarters at the Plange Muhle, a former flour mill in Düsseldorf, Germany.

 

Mehdi Jalayerian, PE, LEED® AP

Mehdi Jalayerian is Senior Vice President and Principal-in-Charge of the International and Special Projects Division for Environmental Systems Design, Inc., which provides consulting services for major high-rise buildings, assembly venues, convention/hotel facilities, international projects, central cooling/heating/electric plants and educational/government projects. Mr. Jalayerian has over 24 years of experience in HVAC and sustainable design practice, during which he has been responsible for building system design for numerous worldwide projects. In 1982, he received Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Kansas.  

 

Ron Judkoff
Director, Center for Buildings and Thermal Systems
National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Ron Judkoff directs the Buildings and Thermal Systems Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The center studies ultra-efficient buildings, building-integrated photovoltaics, solar thermal electric, and active solar heating and cooling. Previously, Ron was a senior architectural engineer in the NREL Buildings R&D Program specializing in the energy design of highly efficient architecture and in simulation and monitoring techniques. Prior to NREL, he was a staff scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He served in the Peace Corps for 3 years as a construction supervisor for rural infrastructure improvement projects and holds a Masters in Architecture degree from Columbia University.

 

Dr. Andrew Laing
Managing Director
DEGW North America

Dr. Laing is responsible for DEGW's business in North America, where he has developed a team of consultants since 1996. He has taught at Princeton’s Department of Architecture and at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. He helps organizations improve workplace performance in relation to wider business goals. He has written many articles on workplace design and authored  “New Environments for Working” with Francis Duffy (1997) and was the co-author of The Responsible Workplace (1993).

He has a PhD Urban Studies and Planning Massachusetts Institute of Technology; a Masters in Town and Country Planning and  a BS Architecture (Hons) University College, London, England.

 

Charles Linn, FAIA
Deputy Editor
Architectural Record

Charles leads the editorial development of Architectural Record’s Innovation Conference, now in its sixth year, and is its master of ceremonies. He serves as the editor of Schools of the 21st Century, Record’s annual publication and symposium for the K-12 school design market, and is a consulting editor for GreenSource magazine. He edits Record’s monthly Practice Matters column, oversees Record’s news department, and acts as editorial liaison between McGraw-Hill Construction and McGraw-Hill’s Professional Books group. He has been a member of editorial teams that have won numerous American Business Media Awards for excellence in business journalism, Folio Awards for editorial excellence, and five McGraw-Hill Corporate Achievement Awards.

 

Professor Daniel Nocera
Professor of Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Professor Nocera is the Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy and Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is widely recognized as a leading researcher in renewable energy at the molecular level. Nocera studies the basic mechanisms of energy conversion in biology and chemistry with primary focus in recent years on the photogeneration of hydrogen and oxygen from water. Nocera’s research in energy conversion has been featured on the nationally broadcast television and radio programs. He developed the pilot that was used to begin the new PBS science program ScienceNow and his PBS NOVA show was nominated for a 2006 Emmy Award. In 2005, he was awarded the Italgas Prize for his fundamental contributions to the development of renewable energy.

 

Stephen Selkowitz
Head, Building Technologies
Department Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Stephen Selkowitz is Department Head of the Building Technologies Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), where he manages a research development and deployment program encompassing windows and daylighting, lighting systems, computer simulation tools, commercial building performance, and demand response research.

Selkowitz has 30 years of experience in the field of building energy performance, with an emphasis on research, development and deployment of energy efficient technologies and design practices. His career has emphasized systems integration and a life cycle performance perspective. The program balances a state-of-the-art research effort with an aggressive technology transfer and implementation effort, so that results of LBL’s work can effectively used by industry and the building community.  

 

Matthias Schuler
Director Transsolar KlimaEngineering

Matthias Schuler has been a director at Transsolar KlimaEngineering since 1992. He has extensive experience with advanced façade buildings, sustainable design, and climate engineering, and has worked on important projects with Murphy/Jahn Architects, UN Studio, SANAA-Sejima Nishizawa, Gehry Partners, and Foster + Partners.

From 1987 to 1992, Schuler was a scientific assistant at the Institute for Thermodynamics and Warmetechnik at the University of Stuttgart, developing international R&D projects for low energy buildings, with expertise in dynamic building simulation.  Schuler has been a lecturer at the Department of Architecture at the University of Stuttgart, and has collaborated with the University of Wisconsin's Solar Energy Lab. He has published numerous articles in such publications as Architecture Aujourd'hui, DETAIL, and AIT, and is the co-author of Glasatlas and Transsolar Climate Engineering.

He lectures on architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and received his Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Stuttgart in 1987.

 

Antony Wood
Executive Director
Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat

Antony Wood is executive director of the CTBUH, responsible for the day-to-day running of the Council. His field of specialization is the design, and in particular the sustainable design, of tall buildings. He is also an Associate Professor in the College of Architecture at IIT. Prior to becoming a professor at the University of Nottingham, UK in 2001, and IIT in 2006, he worked in architectural practice in Hong Kong, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta.

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