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 Wyoming Hyperscale White Box LLCTrenton K Thornock  Small Business Building Efficiency COVID + Climate Crises = Better Data Centers with Construction Carbon Tracking In Partnership with OneClick LCA

History has shown that crises accelerate innovation. The COVID crisis created a data center crisis -increased for ITE growth, amidst restrictions in job-site labor and supply chain challenges. Addressing this global crises requires open collaboration, advancements in off-site construction and BIM precision, and ITE solution advancement – concepts that have been progressing for decades but accelerated in the past two years. Concurrent with COVID, the climate crisis is driving sustainability to be top priority. The launch of Wyoming HyperScale White Box provides a case study on innovation acceleration amidst crises.
From the dual crises of COVID and climate change, Trenton Thornock saw opportunity to contribute to the data center industry. Coincidentally, in 2020 OpenComputeProject launched the Advanced Cooling Facilities subproject – a global, collaborative effort to advance deployment of liquid cooled ITE, with key focus on sharing best practices, advancement of BIM based reference designs and optimization of offsite prefab. Trenton launched his vision- the Wyoming Hyperscale WhiteBox, fully employing many of the construction and sustainability concepts shared at OCP (as well as employing several key OCP contributors)
Discussion Highlights:
• 30 MW Immersion cooled HyperScale data center
• Maximized use of VDC to reduce job site labor requirements, simplify assembly in COVID protocol environment
o Full offsite testing
o 170+ skid delivery
o Accelerated onsite assembly and commissioning
• Maximized innovation of sustainability in energy management
Website: https://wyominghyperscalewhitebox.com/project.html

Email: trenton.thornock@wyominghyperscalewhitebox.com

Phone: 7136706944

Address: 1368 Ebony Ln, Houston, TX, 77018, United States
TX
 DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)Michael Nowak  Government Owned and Operated (GOGO) Other Energy Technologies The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) team at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has been a leader in creating frameworks for evaluating the life cycle energy and environmental implications of fuels and energy systems for more than a decade.

NETL uses LCA as a tool and framework for evaluating energy technology and policy options on a common basis. LCA includes the environmental burdens of converting fuel to useful energy, infrastructure construction, extraction and transportation of fuel, and transport of the final energy product to the end user. NETL's LCA method also includes life cycle costing (LCC), which applies cost metrics to the same boundaries as their environmental models. NETL has applied LCA to fossil, nuclear, and renewable energy systems that produce electricity and liquid fuels. The final products of these LCAs include detailed DOE project reports, published journal paper, as well as dynamic software tools, which can be seen at our website: https://netl.doe.gov/LCA
Examples of past energy system LCAs done by NETL include biomass, coal, geothermal, natural gas, liquefied natural gas, nuclear, petroleum, solar, and wind. We have also done LCAs of CO2 utilization.
We have created publicly available unit process libraries and models that are useful for application in building efficiency analyses.
Website: https://netl.doe.gov/LCA

Email: michael.nowak@netl.doe.gov

Phone: 412-386-6020

Address: 626 Cochrans Mill Road, Pittsburgh, PA, 15236-0940, United States
PA
 KieranTimberlakeBillie Faircloth  Large Business Building Efficiency KieranTimberlake is an award-winning, full-service architecture and planning firm focused on high-performance, sustainable architecture. Our team of 100 professionals in Philadelphia, PA includes a full-time, transdisciplinary research group with backgrounds in fields like industrial ecology, chemistry, physics, carbon accounting, economics, and materials engineering. With an ISO-certified process for Research, Design, and Development (RDD), we are committed to driving innovations in the Building Technology sector.

Our portfolio of projects for private and institutional clients has established KT as a leader in integrating sustainable technologies to balance whole life carbon – embodied and operational – with the realities of performance criteria, constructability, and budget. In pursuit of these goals, we have developed and commercialized cutting-edge workflows and tools for design-integrated LCA processes, including LCI and EPD data integration into the design process.

KieranTimberlake, and our subsidiary KT Innovations, also has a proven track record of identifying gaps in the AEC value chain and building teams to develop the right technologies to fill those gaps. For example:

1) To address embodied carbon and precision for operational carbon reduction, we pioneered the application of automotive manufacturing techniques to architecture, including chunking and the deployment of prefabricated cartridges.

2) To address conservation of resources and embodied carbon, we proved the efficiency of design for disassembly paired with prefabrication in the Loblolly House and created a prefabricated housing line, OpenHome, to address total carbon neutrality.

3) To address drawing-down carbon, we developed Tally®, the first BIM-integrated Life Cycle Assessment Tool, now used throughout the industry to meet embodied carbon goals.

Whether we’re designing new buildings, developing new technologies, or challenging what the built environment can be, our work is infused with discovery, imagination, engagement, exploration, research, and analysis.

Areas of Technical Expertise: Architectural design, detailing and fabrication, sustainable design, off-site fabrication, life cycle assessment (LCA), building information modeling (BIM), building energy modeling (BEM), total carbon analysis, performance monitoring, analysis, and verification, bespoke modeling and computation, applications development including front end, back end, and data management.
Website: www.kierantimberlake.com

Email: services@kierantimberlake.com

Phone: 215-922-6600

Address: 841 N. American Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19123, United States
PA
 Missouri University of Science & TechnologyKwame Awuah-Offei  Academic Other Energy Technologies Kwame Awuah-Offei has expertise doing life cycle assessment for mineral extraction and related activities. He also has expertise on sustainability assessment broadly and has done work on LCA methodology including effects of economies of scale and allocation on life cycle impact assessment.
Website: https://web.mst.edu/~kabp3/index.html

Email: kwamea@mst.edu

Phone: 573-341-6438

Address: 1400 N. Bishop Ave, Rolla, MO, 65409, United States
MO
 Texas A&M UniversityManish Dixit  Academic Building Efficiency Our research focuses on assessing and optimizing embodied and operational impacts of buildings using a cradle-to-cradle approach. Our focus has been on developing dynamic LCA frameworks that allow not just quantifying and optimizing life cycle energy use and carbon emissions but also analyzing interdependencies of different embodied and operational impact components to facilitate net carbon negative design solutions. We are also creating life cycle carbon accounting frameworks for current as well as future climate change scenarios to assess if a net carbon negative building design remains carbon negative in future scenarios. These frameworks are currently being integrated into design and construction tools such as Autodesk Revit and Rhinoceros. Our group has also been developing multi-objective optimization (MOO) and machine learning algorithms to predict operational and embodied energy and carbon performance of buildings based on limited information.
For the upcoming FOA, we propose and plan to: (1) develop a computational dynamic LCA framework for evaluating operational and embodied carbon along with carbon sequestration by utilizing atmospheric carbon to create net carbon negative building materials and building typologies; (2) integrate the framework in existing design and construction tools for a spatiotemporal carbon modeling; (3) test the framework with real-world cases in current and future climate change scenarios; and (4) deliver the tools and new knowledge to key decisionmakers to help transform buildings into carbon sinks.
Website: https://www.arch.tamu.edu/staff/manish-dixit/

Email: mdixit@tamu.edu

Phone: 8327797754

Address: 3137 TAMU, College Station, TX, 77843, United States
TX
 Day Three Farms LLCSandra Thibodeau  Individual Other Energy Technologies We cultivate, harvest and manufacture with industrial hemp fiber, grain and flower for hempcrete, hemp filters, hempwood, hemp insulation. This material is environmentally friendly, sustainable and is recyclable.
Website: daythreefarms.com

Email: contact@daythreefarms.com

Phone: 7854226229

Address: 5309 NW 15th St, Bell, FL, 32619, United States
FL
 University of MarylandMing Hu  Academic Building Efficiency Ming Hu is an Associate Professor at the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, University of Maryland, USA. She teaches technology courses which focus on the integration of architectural design with building system, materials, constructions and building performance assessment.

Professor Hu has an extensive background in high-performance building design and life cycle assessment and has engaged in applied building technology research for over 14 years. Her research activities centers on how to decarbonize the built environment through net zero impact and healthy building design, and to understand how the (smart) technologies might be employed to reduce the impact from built environment to ecosystem.

Professor Hu has published in over fifty research paper, and has lectured widely in North America, Europe, and Asian. She is a visiting research fellow at the Tampere University in Finland as a Fulbright recipient (2020-21). Her first book, titled Net Zero Building: Predicated and Unintended Consequences, was released in April 2019 through Routledge. Her second book: Healthy Built Environment and Smart technologies was published in September 2020.
Website: https://www.minghuarch.com/

Email: mhu2008@umd.edu

Phone: 3014054683

Address: 3835, Campus Drive, Campus Drive, College Park, MD, 20742, United States
MD
 The University of MelbourneRobert Crawford  Academic Building Efficiency Dr Robert Crawford has broad research expertise and interest in the built environment, sustainability, life cycle assessment and renewable energy. His research focuses on building environmental assessment, with a particular emphasis on sustainable resource use, the environmentally appropriate selection of materials and sustainable building design and feasibility.

This work has involved improving life cycle assessment methodologies; performing extensive embodied energy/water/emissions assessments of buildings, their components and renewable energy systems; and validation of life cycle assessment methodologies. He is an expert in modelling indirect (embodied) environmental impacts.
Robert teaches in the areas of life cycle assessment, supply chain management and prefabrication in construction. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Melbourne Energy Institute and a Member of the Australian Government's Expert Panel on Energy Efficiency in the Built Environment.

The contribution of Robert’s work to the fields of construction and environmental assessment has been demonstrated and acknowledged by various awards. He has also acted as a researcher, consultant and adviser to several State Government departments, research and professional organisations.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Robert_Crawford3
Website: https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/174016-robert-crawford

Email: rhcr@unimelb.edu.au

Phone: +61383448745

Address: Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, Melbourne School of Design Building, Parkville, Victoria, 3010, Australia
Victoria
 Clemson UniversityMichael Carbajales-Dale  Academic Other Energy Technologies The Clemson Energy-Economy-Environment (E3) Systems Analysis Group sits within the Department of Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences (EEES). The group’s research focuses on building decision-support tools to reduce the environmental impacts of technology systems and to understand the structural transformation necessary to navigate a peaceful transition to a prosperous and sustainable future. Specifically, we model energy and material resource requirements at three distinct levels: micro, the device/facility level, using engineering-based, bottom-up life cycle assessment and techno-economic modeling tools; meso, the industry/local level, using multi-layer, network-analytic techniques; and macro, the regional/national/global scale, using geographic information systems (GIS) and environmentally-extended input-output models.
Website: https://e3sa.sites.clemson.edu

Email: madale@clemson.edu

Phone: 8649869965

Address: 436a Brackett Hall, Clemson, SC, 29634, United States
SC
 Human Powered Future PLLCBradley Layton PhD PE  Small Business Other Energy Technologies Dr. Layton has been working in renewable energy and renewable energy technologies for over 20 years in academia and private industry across numerous fields including transportation, solar, wind, biomass, hydrogen, rare earth element recovery from coal ash, plastics, zero waste, carbon-negative systems, smart contracts, energy storage, tribal energy development, electronics manufacturing, biomedical engineering, forensic engineering, grant writing, grant reporting, project management, technical training. He has been a PI and Co-PI on dozens of federally-funded an privately funded projects and is a licensed professional engineer in several states.
Website: www.humanpoweredfuture.com

Email: blay@alum.mit.edu

Phone: (406) 203-2365

Address: 8 Columbine Rd, Missoula, MT, 59808-9635, United States
MT
 Stanford UniversityMichael Lepech  Academic Building Efficiency Our team is experienced in developing and integrating life cycle inventories for the materials, a life cycle assessment of the buildings, and design support tools that also assess meeting sustainability targets. Our team has already operationalized some components of this approach for the life cycle design of reinforced concrete infrastructure systems and the CARBONHOUSE systems. The CARBONHOUSE envisions buildings made completely from carbon produced by heating—not combusting—natural gas. The carbon materials will absorb solar power for heat and electricity, as well as to conduct electricity to appliances and batteries.
Interests: Sustainability, Carbon Negative Construction Materials, probabilistic life cycle assessment (LCA) for industrialized construction
Capabilities: We have a solid collaborative team that integrates all necessary efforts in material, design, manufacturing, and life cycle assessment (LCA) through Stanford University.
Website: https://cee.stanford.edu/person/michael-lepech

Email: mlepech@stanford.edu

Phone: (650) 724-9459

Address: Yang & Yamazaki Energy & Environment Building Room 285B, Stanford, CA, 94305-4020, United States
CA
 Southwest Research InstituteKevin Supak  Non-Profit Other Energy Technologies Southwest Research Institute® (SwRI®) is an independent, non-profit, commercial research company with over 2,700 employees specializing in technology evaluation and development for government and commercial clients. SwRI’s unbiased position and broad industry experience allow for solutions to be developed using diverse disciplines including chemistry, space sciences, nondestructive evaluation, automation, engine design, mechanical engineering, electronics, and more. SwRI can assemble a multidisciplinary team of experts required by any technical project, giving SwRI a teaming flexibility difficult to find at other R&D organizations.

Related to this FOA, SwRI has diverse expertise in fluids, heat transfer, mechanical design, carbon capture, sequestration and conversion, structural engineering, and more that can be applied to designing buildings and structures for carbon efficiency and evaluating technologies to reduce their carbon footprint. Please reach out to learn more about how SwRI’s diverse experience can support your technology development and evaluation.
Website: swri.org

Email: ksupak@swri.org

Phone: 210-522-2350

Address: 6220 Culebra Rd., San Antonio, TX, 78238, United States
TX
 DanfossCarolyn Ross  Large Business Building Efficiency 1. Danfoss Climate Solutions has 34 factories located in 15 countries, having over 10,530 employees.
2. Danfoss firmly holds the number two market position in the climate solutions sector. Climate Solutions offers industrial, retail, and residential heating and cooling solutions, including district heating, air conditioning, and residential heating and cooling. Compressors, sensors, heat exchangers, smart heating, electric heating, and energy metering are some of our current product offerings.
3. Thermal management for electric vehicles and the migration of mechanical thermal actuators to EVs are two future trends we are interested in at Danfoss in Climate Solutions. We are also exploring motor and drive platforms, as well as oil-free turbomachinery. Energy harvesting sensors and digital value add in the form of services and tools are also of interest to us.
4. We collaborate with customers to develop specific solutions for their use cases. Customers and startup partners can test components in Danfoss’ Application Development Centers, also called ADCs. Climate Solutions ADCs provide refrigeration and air conditioning test facilities for supermarket refrigeration, display cases, drink dispensers, rooftop units, and other application areas.
5. Climate Solutions has Application Centers in the United States, Europe, and China.
Website: https://www.danfoss.com/en/about-danfoss/our-businesses/climate-solutions/

Email: carolyn.ross@danfoss.com

Phone: (540)717-2468

Address: 1 Broadway, 5th Floor, Cambridge, MA, 02142, United States
MA
 Carbon Leadership Forum, University of WashingtonKathrina Simonen  Academic Building Efficiency The Carbon Leadership Forum (CLF), a program of the University of Washington’s College of Built Environments, is accelerating the transformation of the building sector to rapidly reduce the embodied carbon in building materials and construction. Building on the success of over a decade of work pioneering research, resources, and cross-sector partnerships, the CLF works to decarbonize of the industrial and construction sectors through three strategic pillars: (1) Advance LCA Data and Methods: We align, assess and advance life cycle assessment data and methodology to increase access and availability of quality embodied carbon data for effective decision-making and robust standards; (2) Inform Effective and Just Policy: We develop model embodied carbon policy, act as a technical advisor to inform the development of effective and just policies and provide technical support to agencies implementing embodied carbon policy; and (3) Build Community for Impact: We convene a diverse community of leaders from across the building sector to enable widespread action to reduce embodied carbon.

In support of the upcoming FOA: New program in LCA for carbon negative buildings, we are interested in partnering on teams in order to (A) Develop cradle-to-grave LCA modeling frameworks for rapid screening and quantification of LCA impacts of building materials and integrate them into whole building life cycle assessment tools and datasets; (B) Develop dynamic LCA frameworks to address the temporal aspect of carbon removal, storage and release over a building lifespan in the context of current and future decarbonization goals; and (C) Collaborate on the development of robust frameworks to connect carbon accounting methods applied at the landscape scale to those applied at the material and building scale.

The CLF’s unique position at the intersection of academia and industry and expertise in LCA modeling, data, and methods makes us ideally suited to convene diverse stakeholders in order to develop, build consensus around, and deploy life cycle frameworks that are both straightforward to apply and appropriate for both product optimization and comparison with standard building materials. We have experience in comparative and whole-building LCA, benchmarking, standards, data uncertainty, and supply chain variability. We have worked across several key material categories in-depth, including concrete, steel, wood, glass, and plastics.
Website: https://carbonleadershipforum.org/

Email: hickling@uw.edu

Phone: 707-799-7946

Address: Box 355720, Seattle, WA, 98195-5720, United States
WA
 SENAI CIMATECRodrigo Cardoso Orestes  Academic Other Energy Technologies The Manufacturing and Technology Integrated Campus SENAI CIMATEC was inaugurated in March of 2002, and it is one of the most advanced centers for education, technology and innovation in the country. Supported by a staff of over 800 members, it hosts a Technical School, a Higher Education School and a Technology Center, all cooperating in a four-building structure of more than 35.000m².
Pushing the limits of its infrastructure, SENAI CIMATEC has launched in 2019 an industrial and technological park located inside Camaçari Industrial Complex. The CIMATEC Park features a technological and industrial complex that combines a Science Park, a Technological Park and a Business Park, integrated in an Eco Park of 4 million m².
Currently offering a number of Undergraduate degrees in engineering, and a series of Graduate programs, including lato sensu (specializations and MBAs) and stricto sensu (master’s and doctoral degrees), SENAI CIMATEC prides itself on delivering highly qualified professionals to the various industrial sectors, supporting innovation and problem-solution, having earned the recognition of Brazilian Ministry of Education as the top engineering school in the North/Northeast Regions of Brazil for the past three years.
With 44 areas of competence and extensive experience in the execution of projects of various magnitudes and complexities, SENAI CIMATEC carries out Research, Development & Innovation (RD&I) in partnerships with national and international companies and institutions already totaling more than R$500 million in project resources and high intellectual property indicators, with more than 134 patents registered.
Having access to funding sources such as FAPESB, Informatics Law and SENAI SESI Innovation Fund, we operate projects of high national and international impact and support companies from different regions, maintaining a network of collaborators that include prominent universities and organizations from all over the world. Some of our partners include MCKinsey&Company, NVIDIA, Atos, HP, Intel, Rockwell Automation, DFKI, Embraer, Shell, Ford, RWTH Aachen University, University of Bremen, Braskem, University of Virginia, MIT, and others.
Website: http://www.senaicimatec.com.br/en/

Email: rodrigo.orestes@fieb.org.br

Phone: +5511996006486

Address: Av. Orlando Gomes, 1845 - Piatã, Salvador, Bahia, 41650-010, Brazil
Bahia
 University of ArkansasMahboobeh Hemmati  Academic Building Efficiency My background is in Architecture and Urban Design (BS&MS). As a research assistant and a Ph.D. student in the Environmental Dynamics Program at the University of Arkansas, I am conducting a whole building Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) project with a focus on a Mass Timber Building. Now, I am focusing on transportation and construction phases, Module A4 and A5 of Building LCA. I have a passion for reducing carbon dioxide emissions associated with the building industry. I am also looking for funded research for my Ph.D. dissertation. So, if there is an opportunity for collaboration based on my knowledge and expertise, I would be more than happy if you reach out to me.

Areas of Expertise:
Life Cycle Assessment
Building LCA
Experience with LCA software like SimaPro and Tally
Experience with LCA databases like Ecoinvent and U.S.LCA
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahboobeh-hemmati-95134a217/

Email: mhemmati@uark.edu

Phone: 4794094038

Address: 920 North Leverett Avenue, Apt 705, Fayetteville, AR, 72701, United States
AR
 The Neutral Project, LLCNathan Helbach  Large Business Building Efficiency The Neutral Project was created to redefine conventional development strategies, to mitigate the reprehensible damage caused by the built environment. Despite the evidence pointing to the built environment’s reality of polluting our ecosystem exponentially for decades, conventional developers continue employing harmful construction methods. To mitigate and cease the perpetual reprehensible damage, we must evolve one of the largest contributing industries – Real Estate Development. Our mission is to leave this cosmos better than when we found it by creating a novel sustainable development company to revitalize our built environment.

Our goal is to create Carbon Neutral buildings, and we are in the process of developing two towers in MAdsino and Milwaukee Wisconsin using Mass timber as our structural system. We believe that our goals align with the FOA: New Program in Carbon Negative Buildings, and would love to be a part of the team.
Website: https://theneutralproject.com/

Email: nate@theneutralproject.com

Phone: 6085776108

Address: 849 E. Washington Ave, Madison, WI, 53719, United States
WI
 University of Rhode IslandVinka Oyanedel-Craver  Academic Building Efficiency Life Cycle Assessment: SimaPro, Umberto, Brigthway2
Materials characterization: SEM, Cryo-TEM, XRM, EELS, DSC,TGA, XPS, FTIR, Raman
Environmental sampling: ICP-MS, LCMS, GCMS, HPLC
Website: https://web.uri.edu/engineering/meet/vcraver/

Email: craver@uri.edu

Phone: 4018742784

Address: 1 East Alumni Ave, rm#317, Kingston, RI, 02881, United States
RI
 Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoArman Shehabi  Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Other Energy Technologies Over 10 years’ experience measuring and modeling the energy and air quality implications of building design, with extensive research focused on the information and communication technology (ICT).

Dr. Shehabi’s research areas at LBNL focus on life-cycle assessments (LCA) of next-generation clean-energy technologies. His current work incorporates elements of systems modeling, scenario development, and data synthesis to quantify the potential energy, economic, and air pollutant impacts associated with the large-scale adoption of emerging energy efficient technologies for buildings and consumer electronics

Previous experience being on multiple successful ARPA-e projects, with the role of using life-cycle assessment and technoeconomic analysis to develop performance models to estimate the cost and benefits of emerging building technologies under different scenario of market penetration and wide-scale adoption.
Website: https://eta.lbl.gov/people/arman-shehabi

Email: ashehabi@lbl.gov

Phone: 4156523599

Address: Building 90R2000, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
CA
 University of California, Santa BarbaraEric Masanet  Academic Other Energy Technologies 20 years of experience conducting life-cycle assessment (LCA) studies, including an extensive focus on the industrial sector and building materials and the development of new LCA modeling tools for the built environment (PALATE, B-PATH, and IMAGINE_Concrete). Expert knowledge of LCA tools and databases, as well energy and climate scenario models for assessing life-cycle impacts over time and space. Extensive experience working with DOE and AMO on material and process LCA and TEA. Participated in NSF product declaration standard development process for building materials. Please see Google Scholar link for a list of publications and research outputs related to LCA of buildings and building materials. Also see the following link for an example of recent work focused on low-carbon cement and concrete options for buildings:
https://www.climateworks.org/press-release/report-ids-pathways-for-zero-emission-cement-and-concrete-by-2050/
I also have Faculty Scientist appointment at LBNL and can collaborate with colleagues there, who also bring extensive LCA expertise on buildings.
Website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=B3lsw18AAAAJ&hl=en

Email: emasanet@ucsb.edu

Phone: 3127929776

Address: 3150 Bren Hall, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
CA
 NRELJanet Reyna  Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Building Efficiency Dr. Reyna is one of the developers of NREL's ResStock model - a high-resolution building stock energy model that simulates nation-wide energy use in residential buildings using physics-based bottom up models. ResStock, in it's main implementation, models use-phase of existing residential building energy use, but in some applications, it has been extended to include forward projections based on stock growth, adding in new construction (LA100 Study - see https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy21osti/79444-3.pdf). The main application of ResStock includes the modeling of building retrofits and upgrades to assess impacts on energy use at different scales (e.g., https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy18osti/68670.pdf)

Dr. Reyna's interest in this call include extending existing ResStock workflows to compare other life-cycle use phases with the use-phase currently included in ResStock. Key questions include the comparative analysis of upgrade materials, particularly high energy / environmental impact materials, against current BAU case to identify any emerging technologies that might have disproportionally high manufacturing impacts compared to anticipated savings. Dr. Reyna is also interested in understanding, from an energy perspective, which buildings should be accelerated for turnover in the stock versus ones that should be retrofitted. All these questions could be answered with an augmented building stock energy model such as ResStock.

Dr. Reyna also has a background in building stock LCA, having previously done work on stock turnover modeling, material flow analysis, and embedded environmental impacts (e.g., https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.12211)
Website: resstock.nrel.gov

Email: janet.reyna@nrel.gov

Phone: 720-429-5675

Address: 15013 Denver West Parkway, Golden, CO, 80401, United States
CO
 Siemens Corporation, TechnologyKeryl Cosenzo  Large Business Other Energy Technologies Siemens Corporation, Technology (T), located in Princeton, New Jersey, is one of several world-class research and development centers within Siemens. Our hundreds of research scientists and software engineers provide innovative technical solutions to the global family of Siemens’ businesses. We also work closely with Siemens’ customers, government agencies, universities, and various other organizations to execute fundamental and applied research projects across all of Siemens’ core technology fields.

Siemens Corporation, Technology develops integrated computational design and performance engineering tools to understand the optimal design, operation and performance forecasts for various application domains (e.g. infrastructure, energy, healthcare). T develops tools and methodologies through the transformative power of simulation and machine learning for product and process engineering along the entire value chain of advanced production systems. T is part of the research team behind the industry-leading Siemens NX system for CAD/M/E and has extensive experience in developing innovative technologies for modeling and simulation, analysis and optimization of complex systems, design for additive manufacturing, generative design, parametric and topology optimization (e.g. for large structures), meta-material design, design space construction/exploration, multi-physics and multi-scale simulation, manufacturing process simulation, and digital twin.
Website: https://new.siemens.com/us/en/company/siemens-in-the-usa/princeton.html

Email: keryl.cosenzo@siemens.com

Phone: +1 (609) 216-3853

Address: 755 College Road East, Princeton, NJ, 08540, United States
NJ
 University of Wisconsin - MilwaukeeAlex Timmer  Academic Building Efficiency The focus of Alex’s research is the relationship between energy systems and design within architecture. With an interest in the relationship between form and performance his work explores reasoning within open systems, contingent material processes, and recursive design techniques. Currently, Alex’s research works on two material streams, wood and concrete. In his work on concrete, he is exploring precast pervious concrete systems to cool buildings through evaporation. In his work on wood, Alex is partnering with urban foresters to source and analysis the carbon foot print of salvaged urban wood. This work is being explored as part of the Marcus Prize Studio installation in the Historic Mitchel Street Neighborhood. Alex’s work can be found in various academic journals and conference proceedings such as ACSA, NCBDS, TAD Journal. Additionally, Alex is the curator for the SARUPgallery located in the Marcus Commons of the architecture building.

Alex serves on a number of campus and regional committees. For example, Alex is one of the higher education representatives on the DNR Wisconsin Urban Forestry Council. Alex serves on the utilization committee of this council.

Alex received his Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Michigan. He holds a Master of Architecture from Harvard University where he received with the John E Thayer Award and the Alpha Rho Chi Medal. Prior to joining the faculty at UWM, Alex was one of the two inaugural Irving Innovation Fellows at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. While a fellow he worked to deepen the link between the studio pedagogy and the fabrication lab, exploring ways in which digital fabrication can provide productive feedback loops within the design studio. Alex has also worked for firms and architects such as PLY Architecture, Abalos+Sentkiewicz Arquitectos, Kiel Moe, Christian Kerez, and Jennifer Bonner while specializing in design and fabrication.
Website: https://uwm.edu/sarup/faculty-staff/timmer-alexander/

Email: timmer@uwm.edu

Phone: 734 223 3649

Address: 2131 East Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
WI
 State University of New York(SUNY-ESF)Endong Wang  Academic Building Efficiency I am currently holding Associate Professor position in Sustainable Construction at State University of New York (SUNY-ESF). I received BS, MS and PhD in Structural Engineering, Management Science, and Construction Engineering, respectively. My research primarily focuses on: 1) Stochastic Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Discounted LCA; 2) Building Retrofitting for Sustainability; and 3) Decision Making via Machine Learning. Since my graduate study in the Charles W. Durham School of Architectural Engineering & Construction at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, I have been dedicated to developing robust quantitative instruments and methods for sustainable design and construction. Multiple stochastic data-driven life cycle assessment (LCA) models incorporating uncertainties were constructed for building systems. Particularly, the weighting issue of LCA data quality was addressed to improve its accuracy in embodied energy estimate. A novel stochastic operation energy predicting approach was designed to accurately account for structural deterioration and efficiency conditions. As the main investigator, I developed a hybrid LCA method integrating the process-based, the economic input-output, and the stoichiometric LCA models for Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) process.Temporal homogeneity pertinent to LCA for general process was also investigated. I can make contributions to developing stochastic input-output and process LCA models for materials and processes, quantifying LCA uncertainties, and incorporating tempo-spatial issues in LCA.
Website: https://www.esf.edu/faculty/endong.wang/

Email: ewang01@esf.edu

Phone: 4026173947

Address: 1 Forestry Dr, SYRACUSE, NY, 13210, United States
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 UC BerkeleyMaria Paz Gutierrez  Academic Other Energy Technologies Carbon Negative Construction Materials; Natural and living Materials and 3D Printing Innovation; Multiscale Design and engineering; Water, and Air Regeneration and Indoor Microbiomes.
Website: https://ced.berkeley.edu/ced/faculty-staff/m-paz-gutierrez

Email: mpazgut@berkeley.edu

Phone: 9162249776

Address: Wurster Bauer Hall, Berkeley, CA, 95835, United States
CA
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