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Lawrence J. Fitzgerald
Director, Strategic Planning, Science and Technology

Lawrence J. Fitzgerald is director, strategic planning, science and technology, for PPG Industries.

He joined PPG in 1977 as a development chemist at the coatings research center in Allison Park, Pa., near Pittsburgh. In 1982, he moved to the Delaware, Ohio, coatings and resins facility as a senior development chemist, and in 1988 he became technical manager there. Fitzgerald returned to Allison Park as senior development associate in 1993 and then became associate research director there in 1996.

He was named director, OEM (original equipment manufacture) coatings technology, with responsibility for automotive, industrial, packaging and aerospace coatings in 2004, and he took on his current role in early 2006.

A native of Pittsburgh, Fitzgerald earned a bachelor's in chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh, a master's in colloids, polymers and surfaces from Carnegie Mellon University, and a doctorate from the Ohio State University.

He is a member of the American Chemical Society, Federal Society of Coatings Technology and Industrial Research Institute.

Scott E. Frank, PE
Partner,
Jaros Baum & Bolles

Mr. Frank is a Partner with the firm of Jaros Baum & Bolles, a full service mechanical and electrical consulting engineering firm specializing in the design of large commercial and institutional projects throughout the world. Since joining the firm in 1987, Mr. Frank has functioned as principal mechanical engineer for numerous new construction and retrofit project located both within the United States and abroad. In addition he currently directs the sustainable design practice at JB&B, including in-house energy and CFD modeling functions and has been involved with several significant green projects, including: 30 Hudson Street (Jersey City), One Bryant Park, World Trade Center 7 and Freedom Tower. Mr. Frank holds Bachelors and Master's of engineering degrees from Cornell University, is a licensed Professional Engineer in New York State and is a founding Board member of the NY Chapter of the US Green Building Council.

Roger Frechette
Director of MEP, SOM

Roger Frechette is a LEED® V2.1 Accredited Professional mechanical engi­neer with over 19 years experience. He is currently leading the engineering team of the Burj Dubai, which is planned as the world’s tallest building, as well as the "zero-energy" Pearl River Tower in China. He speaks actively, presenting seminars on “Green Engineering.” In 2001, Roger designed the National Wildlife Foundation Headquarters Building in Reston, VA, voted by the AIA as one of the "Top 10" sustainable buildings in the country. In 2002, he designed the Peri Headquarters Building in Elkridge, MD, the first radi­ant slab building in the United States. In 2004, Roger received Congressional recognition for his work in building sustainability.

Gordon Gill
Associate Partner, design architect for the Pearl Project. SOM

As Studio Head and Senior Designer at SOM, Gordon Gill oversees the design for commercial, corporate, and institutional clients. He is the lead designer for the Pearl River Tower in China, the world’s first zero-energy supertall building. His work emphasizes a holistic approach to design that integrates all project disciplines; the results are performance based designs, or “intelligent build­ings,” that work symbiotically with their natural surroundings.

Pekka Hakkarainen, MA, PhD
Vice President
Lutron Electronics

Dr. Pekka Hakkarainen is Corporate Vice President at Lutron Electronics, and also currently assigned as Business Unit Manager, Commercial Lighting Control Systems. He has held several other - mostly technical - positions in his 16 years at Lutron.

In the past 10 years Pekka has developed an expertise in a number of different technical areas. He has studied the performance of fluorescent and halogen lamps in dimming conditions, co-developed an integrated daylighting system involving electric lights and window shades, and written about the use of lighting controls in sports facilities, among others.

Hakkarainen is a member of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA), the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) and the American Physical Society. He has chaired several IESNA and NEMA committees and served on numerous other industry committees and advisory groups.

Dr Hakkarainen received a BA/MA in Mathematics from Cambridge University, England and a PhD in Plasma Physics from MIT. He holds seven U.S. patents.

Robert Ivy
Vice-President & Editorial Director, McGraw-Hill Construction
Editor in Chief of Architectural Record

In 1996, Robert Ivy took on the fulltime editorial leadership of Architectural Record, the world's most widely read architectural journal. During his tenure, the 114-year-old magazine and its Website have grown in scope and prestige, winning readers and annual awards. In 2003 alone Record received magazine publishing's highest honor, the National Magazine Award for General Excellence, as well as three Jesse Neal Awards for business writing, McGraw-Hill's Corporate Achievement Award, and the platinum Ozzie.

Mr. Ivy is a frequent speaker and awards jury chairman. He has delivered hundreds of keynote speeches, appeared on national television, and conducted interviews with leading figures in the architectural world, including the Aga Khan, AIA Gold Medalists and Pritzker Prize winners, as well as moderated panels at US and international events such as World Trade Center Conference at the Library of Congress, the National Building Museum, New York's Rockefeller Center, and at the American Institute of Architects' national conference; New York's Guggenheim Museum; Chicago's Art Institute; the 92nd St. "Y"; and California's Monterey Design Conference. In 2002 and 2004, Ivy served as the Commissioner of the United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale for architecture, with Architectural Record as curator of the 2004 event, positions they will assume again in 2006.

In his role as editorial director of McGraw-Hill Construction Media, Ivy oversees the editorial quality of 15 publications, in print and in digital form, including Architectural Record's new quarterly publication in China. In addition, he oversaw the development of McGraw-Hill Construction's new publication for sustainable design, GreenSource, which launched in May 2006, in print and on the Web.

Ivy came to McGraw-Hill from a dual career: previously he had been a principal in a successful architectural practice and a critic for national publications. His book on the late architect Fay Jones remains the standard reference on the subject, cited by the Art Library of North America for "highest standards of scholarship, design and production." Prior to becoming an architect, he served as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy. He is a former board member of the American Institute of Architects and the American Architectural Foundation, the Center for Southern Culture, and a civic activist in his former hometown. He currently serves on the advisory boards of three architecture schools, including those at Tulane University, Mississippi State University, and Auburn University's Rural Studio.

Ivy and his wife Holly have three children-Virginia, Adam, and Ben-and regularly return to his home state of Mississippi. Mr. Ivy, a fellow of the American Institute of Architects, holds a Masters in Architecture from Tulane University, and a BA (cum laude) in English from the University of the South (TN). He is a member of CICA, the International Circle of Architecture Critics.

Nico Kienzl
Director
atelier ten

Nico Kienzl, a director for the New York office of atelier ten, serves as the office's principal building physics analyst. His research work has focused on performance modeling of transient building behaviors, advanced building systems, and materials for environmentally-responsive building enclosures. Nico previously worked as an architect with Herzog+Partner in Germany on a number of innovative low-energy signature buildings that integrated double skin facades, daylighting, thermal mass and natural ventilation. He has taught courses on environmental systems and building systems integration at Pratt Institute's graduate architecture program and has held previous teaching appointments at Harvard and the Boston Architectural Center.

Gary Lawrence
Urban Strategies Leader
Arup

Gary Lawrence is Urban Strategies Leader for Arup. An internationally recognized expert on urban strategies and sustainable development, he drives Arup's vision to create enduring communities that address human need and environmental limitations.

Mr. Lawrence has more than 20 years of experience as a government administator, consultant and adviser to public and private sector organizations and NGOs on sustainable development for urban planning and regeneration, strategic planning and organizational development. As planning director for the City of Seattle, he led development of "Toward a Sustainable Seattle," the first sustainability-focused municipal comprehensive plan in the world.

Mr. Lawrence has served as an adviser to the Clinton Administration, the UN's Habitat II, the US Agency for International Development, the Brazilian President and the British Prime Minister. He is in demand throughout the world as a speaker on sustainable development and urban planning and serves on the US Smart Growth Network Leadership Council and the Advisory Committee for the UN Center for Urban Settlement's Best Practices Center. He is involved in the Urban Land Institute, the American Planning Association and the US Smart Growth Leadership Council.

Mr. Lawrence holds a master's in public administration from the University of Georgia and is an Adjunct Professor in the Huxley College of Environmental Studies at Western Washington University.

Charles Linn
FAIA, Deputy Editor,
Architectural Record

Charles practiced architecture from 1978 until 1986, when he launched Architectural Lighting for Aster Publishing in Eugene, Oregon. He later produced Laboratory Planning and Design for the company. He joined Architectural Record in 1990 as the editor of its Record Lighting publication and became managing senior editor in 1993. He has written and edited hundreds of articles for Record on building design, architectural technology, firm management, and the business of architecture.

He has been instrumental in the editorial development of Record's Innovation Conference for the past four years, and this year helped launch McGraw-Hill Construction's new GreenSource magazine and website. He is currently leading the editorial development of Record's Schools for the 21st Century publication, and Record's new Practice Matters website.

He is a Kansas State University Distinguished Alumni Fellow, and was elected to the American Institute of Architects' College of Fellows in 2002. He has been a member of teams which have won four McGraw-Hill Corporate Achievement Awards for Editorial Excellence, and is a member of the architectural honorary society, Tau Sigma Delta. He is licensed to practice architecture in Kansas, Colorado, and New York

Daniel H. Nall
FAIA, PE, LEED

Mr. Nall, Senior Vice President of Flack + Kurtz, Inc., is a graduate of Princeton University and Cornell University, and is both a Registered Architect and a Professional Engineer, and a LEED Accredited Professional. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the NY Chapter of the USGBC, of the ASHRAE Advanced Energy Design Guide Small Retail Project Committee, the ASHRAE Sustainability Oversight Committee, and is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. He is currently involved with the new US Embassies in Kathmandu and Cape Town, the Newseum in Washington, DC, the New York Times Headquarters Building and the new Computer Center for the University of North Carolina. He was involved with the Clinton Presidential Library and the Alcoa Corporate Headquarters. He spoken at many symposia on building energy efficiency and computer aided design, and is the author of 30 articles and papers in professional periodicals and technical journals. He is currently a Visiting Lecturer at the Princeton University School of Architecture and has been an Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture at Columbia University. His expertise includes renewable energy systems, ground coupled HVAC applications, underfloor air distribution, radiant heating and cooling, building envelope/HVAC interaction, computational fluid dynamics simulation of the indoor environment and building energy analysis.

Daniel H. Nall, FAIA, PE, LEED® AP
Senior Vice President/ Director-Advanced Technologies
FLACK + KURTZ
475 Fifth Ave 212.532.9600 Main
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Matthias Schuler
Director, Transsolar

Matthias Schuler was born in Stuttgart, Germany and received a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Stuttgart in 1987. From 1987-1992, he was a scientific assistant at the Institute for Thermodynamics and Warmetechnik at the University of Stuttgart, developing international R&D projects for low energy buildings, with expertese in dynamic building simulation (TRNSYS program). In 1992, the company TRANSSOLAR was founded in Stuttgart, of which he became the technical director. TRANSSOLAR has today 32 employees and is a leader in the international low-energy consulting field. Mr. Schuler has been a Lecturer at the Department of Architecture at the University of Stuttgart and has collaborated with the University of Wisconsin's Solar Energy Lab. He has published numerous articles in such publications as Architecture Aujourd'hui, DETAIL, and AIT, and is the co-author of Glasatlas (Birkhauser Verlag, 1999). He is also a lecturer in architecture at the Harvard Design School.

Stephen Selkowitz
Head, Building Technologies Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Stephen Selkowitz is Department Head of the Building Technologies Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, LBNL, where he manages 70 technical staff in a buildings R,D&D program encompassing Windows and Daylighting, Lighting Systems, Computer Simulation Tools, Commercial Building Performance, and Demand Response Research.

He has 30 years of experience in the field of building energy performance, with an emphasis on research, development and deployment of energy efficient technologies and design practices. Projects range from near term demonstrations of emerging technology to basic materials research intended to influence the next generation of building façade and daylighting products, and include development of the new daylighting and energy simulation tools and information technologies needed to change the practice of building design and operations. His department focuses on developing solutions to support the design and operation of high performance commercial buildings, with an emphasis on systems integration and a life cycle performance perspective. The program balances a state-of-the-art research effort with an aggressive technology transfer and implementation effort so that results of the R&D program are effectively utilized by industry and the building community. Selkowitz participates in a wide range of building industry, government, and professional activities in the U.S. and internationally. He is on the Board of Directors of the NFRC, Vice Chair of the International Alliance for Interoperability, and a member of USGBC's TSAC and R&D committees. He is a frequent invited speaker on the topic of building energy efficiency, and is the author of over 150 publications and holds 2 patents. In 2002 he was the recipient of ACEEE's 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.

Sylvan R. Shemitz, F.I.E.S.
CEO, Tambient

Sylvan Shemitz has had a distinguished career combining the attributes of designer, scientist, entrepreneur, academic and inventor. He has been a lighting designer, consultant and the principal in the firm of Sylvan R. Shemitz Associates. As founder and CEO of Sylvan R. Shemitz Designs Inc., makers of Tambient and elliptipar, he is the inventor and proponent of task/ambient lighting and holds patents for major innovations in asymmetric lighting.

Shemitz, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, has been a Visiting Lecturer on the faculties of Yale, Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Architecture.

Steven J. Strong
President of Solar Design Associates, Inc.

Steven J. Strong is President of Solar Design Associates, Inc., a group of Architects and Engineers dedicated to the design of environmentally responsive buildings, and the engineering and integration of renewable energy systems.

Over the last 25 years, he's designed dozens of delightful living/working environments that require little or no purchased energy. In 1996, he powered the Summer Olympics with solar electricity using the world's largest roof-top PV power system.

In 2002, he designed three solar energy systems at the White House. He recently completed a new 'solar skin' for the US Mission to the United Nations in Geneva.

Peter Tertzakian
Chief Energy Economist and Director
of ARC Financial Corporation

He is also a member of ARC's Investment Committee. In addition to directing ARC’s economic research, Peter is the author of "A Thousand Barrels a Second" published by McGraw Hill. Peter also publishes ARC Energy Charts, a weekly journal of energy trends.

Peter began his career as a geophysicist with the Chevron Corporation in 1982 where he spent eight years working in field operations, seismic data processing and geophysical software development. In 1990, Peter left the oil and gas business and entered the financial services industry.

By the time he joined ARC Financial Corporation in 2002 Peter was a well-recognized, top ranked equity analyst among an institutional client base that spanned Canada, Europe and the United States.

Peter has an undergraduate degree in Geophysics from the University of Alberta, and a graduate degree in Econometrics from the University of Southampton, U.K. He also holds a Master of Science in Management of Technology from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.

Peter is a member of the board of directors of Brigantine Energy Inc., Alberta Clipper Energy Ltd. and on the board of directors of the Honens International Piano Competition.

James Timberlake Partner, FAIA, KieranTimberlake

Founded in 1984 by Stephen Kieran, FAIA, and James Timberlake, FAIA, KieranTimberlake Associates LLP is an award-winning and internationally recognized architecture firm noted for its research, innovation and inventive design. The firm's projects include programming, planning and design of all types of new structures and their interiors; and the renovation, reuse and conservation of existing structures. Recent commissions include buildings for Yale University, Cornell University, the Philadelphia Theatre Company and the General Services Administration Design for Excellence Program.

Kieran and Timberlake were recipients of the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome in 1981 and 1983, respectively, and were awarded the inaugural Benjamin Latrobe Fellowship for architectural design research from the AIA College of Fellows in 2001. They have co-authored two books: Manual, The Architecture of KieranTimberlake, published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2002, and refabricating Architecture, published by McGraw Hill in 2004, which examines how manufacturing methodologies are poised to transform building construction. They have taught at major universities including Yale University, Princeton University, University of Michigan, University of Texas at Austin and the University of Pennsylvania, where they lead a graduate research studio. The firm's work has been published in Architectural Record, Cambridge University's Architectural Research Quarterly, Interiors (Taiwan), Interior Design, I.D. Magazine, Metropolis, Time, WIRED, World Architecture, and The New York Times.