Steve Selkowitz
Department Head – Building Technologies Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (NLBL)
http://www.lbl.gov

Presenter

Session 10: Accelerating Progress toward Net Zero Energy Use in Commercial Buildings
Monday, October, 27, 2008

Stephen Selkowitz is Department Head, Building Technologies Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he manages 70 technical staff in a building science R&D program encompassing Windows and Daylighting Systems, Lighting Systems Research, Computer Simulation Tools, Commercial Building Performance, Demand Response Research and High Tech Buildings.

Selkowitz has over 30 years of experience in building energy performance and sustainable design, with an emphasis on research, development and deployment of energy efficient technologies and design practices. Projects range from basic materials research for advanced façades and daylighting, to development of new energy simulation tools for integrated building design and operations, and from near term demonstrations of emerging technologies to research for a new generation of “zero energy” or “carbon-neutral” buildings.. The program balances a state-of-the-art research effort with an aggressive technology transfer effort so that R&D results are effectively adopted by the building industry. Selkowitz participates in a wide range of building industry, government, and professional activities in the U.S. and internationally. He is a frequent invited speaker on the topic of building energy efficiency, the author of over 170 publications and holds 2 patents. Before joining LBNL he was a principal in a consulting engineering firm and taught courses in Environmental Controls and Alternative Energy Systems.