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Innovation 2009
The Net-Zero Energy Buildings Conference II:
Technologies, Materials, and Systems for Getting to Zero
David Altenhofen, AIA
Technical Design Principal
RMJM
David Altenhofen is a nationally recognized expert in architectural technology. The depth and range of his experience have been invaluable in developing projects of tremendous scale and potential. As Technical Design Principal at RMJM, he oversees the technical quality of all work in the office, David is currently working on several projects, including the Louisiana Cancer Research Center in New Orleans, the Champalimaud Center in Lisbon, Portugal, and the Gazprom headquarters in Moscow.
David has authored numerous articles on the technical aspects of design and is a frequent speaker at regional and national technical and professional conferences on technology and design. He is based in RMJM’s Philadelphia office, is registered in multiple states including Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Colorado, and holds an NCARB Certificate.
Drury Crawley, PhD
Team Lead, Commercial Buildings
Office of Building Technologies, U.S. Department of Energy
Mr. Crawley leads the U.S. Department of Energy’s Commercial Building Initiative, which is working to achieve cost-effective net-zero energy commercial buildings by 2025, including the Commercial Building Energy Alliances and Commercial Building National Accounts. He is also responsible for managing the U.S. Department of Energy’s building energy software tools research and development activities including EnergyPlus, the OpenStudio plugin for Google SketchUp, Energy-10, and DOE-2.
He has 30 years of experience working with building-energy efficiency, renewable energy, and sustainability, in government research and standards development organizations, as well as building design and energy consulting companies. Dru is a registered architect, and recently completed his PhD in Mechanical Engineering on the topic of building simulation as a policy tool, looking at the potential impacts of climate change on the built environment at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. He has published more than 100 papers and articles and made more than 200 presentations on building energy efficiency, sustainability, and renewable energy topics throughout the world.
Anna Dyson
Director, Center for Architecture Science and Ecology
Associate Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Anna Dyson teaches design, technology, and theory at the School of
Architecture at Rensselaer. She is the director of The Center for
Architecture, Science and Ecology (CASE) which hosts the Graduate Program in
Architectural Sciences, concentration in Built Ecologies. She has worked
as a design architect and product designer in several offices in Canada,
Europe, and the United States. Her work has been exhibited in the MoMA
Young Architects Series, was a finalist in the Next Generation Design
Competition, and has been awarded in Architect Magazine's 2009 R+D Awards.
Dyson holds multiple international patents for building systems inventions and is currently directing interdisciplinary research sponsored to develop new systems for on-site energy generation.
Carl Galioto, FAIA
Senior Principal, HOK
As partner-in-charge of SOM/New York's Technical Group, Carl Galioto directs
the office efforts in the areas of research and development, quality
assurance, and project delivery. He manages a group of approximately 200
architects, which includes experts in materials research, project
specifications, field services, equipment planning, and building enclosures.
While best known for his work on high rise projects, such as 7World Trade
Center, 1 World Trade Center and the development of new and innovative
approaches to occupant safety in super-tall buildings, Mr. Galioto is
involved in numerous complex projects including those in health and science,
education, transportation, and public buildings.
Mr. Galioto is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, a board member of the AIA New York Chapter, and the New York Building Congress. His participation on influential panels and commissions contributes to the advancement of building science in the areas of digital design, building safety, and building enclosure performance.
Colin G. Harrison, PhD
Director, Corporate Strategy,
IBM
Dr. Harrison specializes in topics that involve energy and the environment, in particular IBM’s Smart Cities initiative. He was previously director of Strategic innovation in IBM’s Integrated Technology Delivery Division in Europe, as well as director of Global Services Research in IBM’s Research Division. In 2001 he established IBM’s Institute for Advanced Learning. Following his university studies in England and Germany, he spent several years at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, developing the SPS accelerator. He then returned to EMI Central Research Laboratories in London, and led the development of the world’s first clinically useful MRI system.
He joined IBM in San Jose in 1979 and has enjoyed a career leading from micromagnetics to medical imaging, parallel computing, mobile networking, intelligent agents, telecommunications services, and knowledge management. He led the development of many technical innovations, including the first use of a distributed real-time control system at CERN, the practical application of Magnetic Resonance Imaging in medicine (1978), mobile computing (1990), wireless data services (1992), network services (1994), and so forth. Among his many failed innovations are magnetic bubble memories (1980), creating a medical imaging business for IBM (1984), inventing the Worldwide Web two years too late (1992), and creating a Voice Over IP business (1997).
A. John Hart, PhD
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mechnical Engineering
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
John Hart holds Ph.D. (2006) and S.M. (2002) degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a B.S.E (2000) degree from the University of Michigan, all in Mechanical Engineering. He is currently Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan.
Hart directs the Mechanosynthesis Group, and the group’s research focuses on synthesis, properties, and applications of nanostructures and nanomaterials. Their work ranges from fundamental studies of synthesis and structure, to development of novel material and device applications, to creation of production techniques that realize these applications at commercial scales.
John is also widely known for his Nanobliss gallery of images of small-scale structures; this effort to communicate nanotechnology to broad audiences has been featured in hundreds of media outlets worldwide.
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.
Helmut Jahn, FAIA
President and CEO,
Murphy/Jahn Architects
Helmut Jahn was born in Germany 1940, and graduated from the Technische Hochschule in Munich in 1965. He came to the United States for graduate studies in architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and joined C.F. Murphy Associates in 1964.
Jahn became president of Murphy/Jahn in 1982. Since the early 1990s he has been interested in the integration of technology and design to conserve resources and to make buildings as recyclable and sustainable as possible while maximizing occupant comfort. Working with collaborators such as structural engineer Werner Sobek and climate engineer Matthias Schuler, he attempts to break down the barriers which often exist between architecture and engineering, referring to the result as Archi-Neering. Aesthetically, he strives for transparency and to elevate materials, systems and their assembly to the level of art.
Murphy/Jahn was the recipient of the 2005 AIA National Firm Award and 2006 AIA Chicago Chapter Firm Award. His work has received 10 American Institute of Architects National Honor Awards, and a total of 52 Distinguished Building Awards from the local AIA chapters.
Charles Linn, FAIA
Deputy Editor,
Architectural Record
Charles Linn, FAIA Deputy Editor Architectural Record Charles leads the editorial development of Architectural Recordıs Innovation Conference, now in its seventh year, and is its master of ceremonies. He serves as the editor of Schools of the 21st Century, Recordıs annual publication and symposium for the K-12 school design market, and is a consulting editor for GreenSource and SNAP magazines. He edits Recordıs monthly Practice Matters column, oversees Recordıs news department, and acts as editorial liaison between McGraw-Hill Construction and McGraw-Hillıs 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.
Peter Rumsey, PE
Managing Principal, Rumsey Engineers
Peter Rumsey is the founder of Oakland, California-based Rumsey Engineers, a firm that has rapidly established itself as one of the country’s most forward-thinking designers of highly energy efficient mechanical systems for sustainable buildings and critical environments.
The focus of Peter’s career is to transform the building industry by designing ultra energy efficient buildings that are practical, comfortable, safe and affordable. He has taken on a wide range of challenging project types, including mechanical systems for some of the most energy-efficient data centers, cleanrooms, and laboratories in the U.S. He is a Senior Fellow of the Rocky Mountain Institute, an ASHRAE Fellow, a registered professional engineer in 10 states, and an Association of Energy Engineers Certified Energy Manager. He has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and is a frequent lecturer at industry events, conferences, and universities.
Rumsey Engineer’s projects have received awards from several prominent industry organizations, including the Association of Energy Engineers, the American Institute of Architects, and ASHRAE. It was the first engineering firm in the U.S. to achieve four LEED platinum certified projects.
Scott Shell, AIA, LEED AP
Principal, EHDD Architecture
Scott is a principal at EHDD Architecture in San Francisco. He and the firm use an interdisciplinary approach to creating low-energy and carbon-neutral buildings. Scott is currently working on the Lifecycle Building Challenge, a program that promotes the use of recovered building materials and “design for deconstruction (DfD)” to reduce the lifecycle impact of building materials. He has designed a number of EHDD’s most successful high-performance projects, including the Carnegie Institution for Science’s Department of Global Ecology in Stanford, California; Chartwell School in Seaside, California, and the Biomedical Science Building at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Scott received a Bachelor of Architecture from Auburn University; a Master of Arts in Humanities from Stanford University, and studied Tamil language and culture at the University of Chicago and the American Institute of Indian Studies in Madurai.
John Straube, PhD
Principal, Building Science Corporation
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
John Straube, Ph.D., P.Eng., is a principal of Building Science Corporation and a professor of building science in the Civil Engineering Department and School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He has acted as an educator, researcher, consultant and expert witness on energy efficiency, durability and IAQ. Current interests include the optimal system design of buildings, sustainable buildings, and moisture problem avoidance.
Norbert W. Young, Jr., FAIA
President, McGraw-Hill Construction
Norbert W. Young, Jr. is president of McGraw-Hill Construction, the leading source of project news, product information, industry analysis and editorial coverage for design and construction professionals. McGraw- Hill Construction is comprised of such prestigious brands as Dodge, Sweets, Architectural Record, Engineering News-Record, Regional Publications and construction.com. Together, these brands serve as the leading provider of print and electronic products and services to the industrial, commercial and residential construction and building industry.
Norbert joined The McGraw-Hill Companies in December 1997 as vice president, editorial, for Dodge. Previous to Dodge, Mr. Young spent eight years with the Bovis Construction Group, a global leader in the management of high profile construction projects. In 1994, he was appointed president for the newly created Bovis Management Systems (BMS), which was established to serve the construction and project management needs for both private and public sector clients on a national, as well as global basis. Notable clients and projects which benefited from Mr. Young's involvement include the 1996 Summer Olympic Games, Bank of America, NYNEX and Sun Microsystems.
During the 1980's, Young was a partner at Toombs Development Company, New Canaan, CT. He managed all aspects of design and construction, including governmental permitting and approvals for the firm's real estate developments in Philadelphia, Baltimore and New Jersey.
He started his career in Philadelphia as an architect, where he gained 12 years experience covering a wide range of building types and projects. He holds a Master's of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor's of Arts from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME.
A registered architect, his professional affiliations include membership in the Urban Land Institute, a Fellow of The American Institute of Architects and the International Alliance for Interoperability, where he serves as Chairman of the IAI-NA Board of Directors. In addition, he serves as a trustee of the National Building Museum, is a regent of the American Architectural Foundation and an Overseer for the Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania. He has lectured nationally on such topics as the impact of technology on the construction industry, project delivery approaches, managing the risk of the design and construction process and outsourcing trends.
Norbert resides in Greenwich, Connecticut with his wife, Christine.
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