Evolution of A Deep Energy Retrofit
Betsy Pettit, M.Arch., FAIA
Betsy Pettit is the president and co-founder of Building Science Corporation. Ms. Pettit is a registered architect with over 40 years of professional experience in the design and renovation of residential, commercial, and institutional buildings. With a particular passion for and commitment to environmentally responsible design, Ms. Pettit oversees Building Science Corporation’s role in the Department of Energy’s Building America project, which has been involved in the research and design of thousands of high performance houses throughout the United States.
30 Years of Building Science Innovations
Achilles Karagiozis. PhD
Achilles Karagiozis is the director of NREL’s Buildings and Thermal Sciences Center. He manages a multidisciplinary team of approximately 150 researchers within the laboratory’s Buildings research groups.
He provides strategic planning to bolster NREL efforts to transform energy through buildings science and integration. His work is focused on accelerating the development of strategic technical capabilities and directing world-class multidisciplinary research funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, other federal agencies, and industry partners.
Dr. Karagiozis comes to NREL from Owens Corning where he was the global director of building science and led global accountability for the company's building science strategy. During his 9-year tenure, he shaped, educated, and trained others in energy efficiency and green building science, transforming building science into a growth engine aimed at accelerating energy-efficiency improvements in the built environment.
Before joining Owens Corning, Dr. Karagiozis was a distinguished researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he worked for 14 years. Earlier he spent 9 years at the National Research Council creating and deploying advance hygrothermics. He chaired ASHRAE Standard Project Committee 160, which specifies criteria for designing high-performance buildings. He was an Energy and Environmental Building Alliance board member and served on the Passive House Institute US Technical Committee.
Building Physics – The Key to Sustainability
Eva B. Møller, PhD
Eva B. Møller is a professor in building design in the Arctic at the Danish Technical University. Eva’s expertise is in Hygrothermal behaviour of the building envelope, building physics, mould and other moisture related indoor climate problems, condition assessment of buildings, especially of buildings with indoor climate and moisture problems, subsequent renovation, building technology, laboratory testing of building materials and arctic building design.
Ernst Jan de Place Hansen, PhD
Ernst Jan de Place Hansen is the head of a research group on building physics and structural engineering, BUILD (until 2020 SBi) at Aalborg University. Internal thermal insulation of historic buildings, building regulations, moisture conditions in the building envelope, winter construction, faults and defects in buildings, service life of materials and constructions are Ernst’s key area of research.