I consult on applied innovation for the built environment. I accelerate progress by synthesizing current research, unstick projects by asking hard questions, and help people communicate across disciplines and trades.
With decades of multi-disciplinary engineering and research experience – and a problem-solving approach grounded in physical first principles and rigorous question asking – I am uniquely equipped to develop novel products, evaluate new technologies, and resolve your project’s knottiest problems.
I’ve helped startups, investors, design professionals, and researchers. Let's talk and see what I can do for you!
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Examples of my work:
I collaborated with a well-known equipment manufacturer to design and test a large ceiling fan for classroom applications, leading to a new fan design for the project – and a new product offering for the manufacturer.
I researched technologies and products for an energy services company, doubling identified savings opportunities in their customers’ buildings. I also developed go/no-go criteria to screen out low-opportunity buildings, saving them hundreds of hours of engineering time.
Early in the pandemic, I collaborated with HVAC engineers, scientists, and epidemiologists to understand the aerosol nature of COVID. My ventilation-focused mitigation strategies – ultimately validated by the CDC, WHO and ASHRAE – enabled building owners to meaningfully address risk at a time of great uncertainty.
Working with building standards committees that include both academic researchers and tradespeople (contractors), I regularly resolve conflicts by clarifying miscommunications, identifying unspoken assumptions, and translating discipline-specific jargon and concerns.
I won an ASHRAE Technology Award for my design of a system using thermal mass to leverage diurnal temperature swing to cool a densely occupied building without air conditioning.
Faced with a new LEED Gold laboratory whose poor energy performance and persistent comfort issues stumped university engineering staff, I traced the cause to errors in the design and developed a new control strategy that solved the problem.
I developed a completely novel control strategy to enable a thermodynamically zoned heat pump HVAC system, which saved $1 million in first costs for a new all-electric, zero carbon medical office building.
I created complete Division 25 (building automation and controls) master specifications for a very well-known green design studio, dramatically improving their standard of practice for building controls.
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