September 15, 2010

PES Program: Energy Models

Speaker: 

Drury B. Crawley, Ph.D.
Director, Building Performance Products
Bentley Systems, Inc.

Dr. Crawley leads a team developing a new generation of building performance software for energy and sustainability at Bentley Systems.  Prior to joining Bentley in early 2010, he lead DOE’s Commercial Building Initiative – working to achieve cost-effective net-zero energy commercial buildings by 2025, including the Commercial Building Energy Alliances and Commercial Building National Accounts. He was also responsible for managing the U.S. Department of Energy’s building energy software tools research and development activities including EnergyPlus (winner of an R&D100 Award in 2003), OpenStudio plugin for Google SketchUp, and DOE-2. 

With 30 years of experience in buildings energy efficiency, renewable energy, and sustainability, he has worked in software development, government research and standards development organizations, as well as building design and energy consulting companies. A registered architect, he completed his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 2009 on the topic of building simulation as a policy tool, looking at the potential impacts of climate change on the built environment at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. 

He is a Fellow and Distinguished Lecturer in ASHRAE, and is also active in AIA, IBPSA, and USGBC and serves on the editorial boards of the three international journals. He has published more than 100 papers and articles and made more than 250 presentations on building energy efficiency, sustainability, and renewable energy topics throughout the world.