Date: Thursday, April 19, 2009
Location: The Warehouse, 25 W. Cimarron Street
Time: 11:30 am to 1:00 pm
Speaker: Drury Crawley
Topic: Future Trends in Building and Energy Simulation

Speaker Bio: Mr. Crawley leads the U.S. Department of Energy’s Building Technologies Program team working to achieve cost-effective net-zero energy commercial buildings by 2025. He is also responsible for managing the DOE’s building energy software tools development activities including EnergyPlus (winner of an R&D 100 Award in 2003), Energy Design Plugin for Google SketchUp, Energy-10, DOE-2, and SPARK, among others. With more than 30 years of experience in buildings energy efficiency, renewable energy, and sustainability, he has worked in government research and standards development organizations, as well as building design and consulting companies. A registered architect, he is currently completing his PhD in Mechanical Engineering on the topic of building simulation as a policy tool at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. Mr. Crawley is active in ASHRAE (Chair of Technical Committee 2.8 Building Environmental Impacts and Sustainability, Chair of Standard 169 Weather Data for Building Design Standards, Member of SSPC 189.1P Standard for the Design of High-Performance, Green Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings, former Member of the Research Administration Committee, and former Chair of TC 4.2, 4.7, and 7.1). He received an ASHRAE Distinguished Service award in 2003 and a 1999 Symposium Best Paper Award for “Which Weather Data Should You Use for Energy Simulations of Commercial Buildings?” Mr. Crawley is the US-representative and Vice Chair of the Executive Committee of the International Energy Agency Solar Heating and Cooling Programme, and is active in AIA, IBPSA, USGBC (member of the Research Committee and the Energy & Atmosphere TAG), and serves on the editorial boards of three international Journals. He has written more than 100 papers and articles and made more than 175 presentations on energy efficiency, sustainability, and renewable energy topics throughout the world.