[E&E seminars] MITEI Seminar Series - Stephen Selkowitz - Zero Energy Buildings: Potentials and Realities - Nov 18th

[Karen Gibson]

We are pleased to announce the third speaker in the MITEI Seminar  
Series. We hope you will join us Tuesday, November 18th to hear  
Stephen Selkowitz, Department Head of the Building Technologies  
Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Zero Energy Buildings: Potentials and Realities
Stephen Selkowitz

Date: Tuesday, November 18th
Time: 4:15 – 5:45 with a reception to follow
Location: 66-110 (Landau Building, 25 Ames Street)

Abstract

To address growing concerns about energy supply, carbon emissions, and  
the workplace, buildings are increasingly asked to meet higher and  
potentially more complex levels of performance e.g. net zero energy,  
sustainable and green, healthy and comfortable workplaces, grid-  
friendly, etc. Are these goals achievable or illusory? To what degree  
can they be achieved today in practice; and what innovation  
(technology, process, financial) is needed to fully reach these  
aggressive performance levels in the future?

About the Speaker

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, Simulation  
Research, 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 overseas. He is a frequent invited speaker to national and  
international audiences on a variety of topics related to building  
energy efficiency, zero energy building design, green buildings,  
sustainable design and the role of buildings energy use in addressing  
climate change.  He authored/co-authored over 170 publications, 3  
books and holds 2 patents. His research teams have won several R&D 100  
awards and he was the recipient of the 2002 ACEEE Champion of Energy  
Efficiency Award.  Before joining LBNL he was a principal in a  
consulting engineering firm and taught courses in Environmental  
Controls and Alternative Energy Systems.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Jameson  
Twomey at jtwomey at mit.edu or 617-324-2408.

MITEI Seminar Series '08-'09 sponsored by Cambridge Energy Research  
Associates, Inc.
  
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