AIA CHARLOTTE SERIES SCHEDULE

Joe Loveland, AIA

Joel is a Professor of Architecture and the Director of the Integrated Design Lab. His half-time teaching includes graduate design studios, seminars in sustainable design and the integration of building and landscape systems for radically high levels of energy and daylighting performance.

Keith Pehl, AIA

Keith the President of Optima Engineering, located in Charlotte, N.C. Keith started the firm in 1992. Optima Engineering has approximately 32 employees and provides a wide range of engineering services for the built environment, from mechanical, electrical and plumbing design for buildings, to carbon footprint and energy analysis for their clients. In addition to his focus on Electrical Engineering he also is involved with strategic planning, sustainable design, renewable energy, and energy analysis. With more than 25 years of diverse electrical engineering experience, he advises and develops sustainable engineering strategies for all types of clients and their facilities. He frequently speaks to various organizations on the topics of renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy tax opportunities.

Ken Haggard

Kenneth Haggard is a registered architect in the states of California and Florida with 32 years of experience in urban design and architecture. For the past 26 years, he has been a principal in San Luis Sustainability Group (SLSG). Known as a pioneer in passive solar design, Haggard has designed numerous residential and commercial projects with an emphasis on making the best use of the energy and materials available on-site. In 1972, he served as architect and senior researcher for the first passive solar house in California. In 1978, he co-wrote "Passive Solar Handbook for California," a guide for architects interested in the passive solar design. With colleague Polly Cooper, Haggard helped renew serious interest in straw bale construction in California by designing the first-permitted straw bale house in the state.

Robert Dunay

Robert Dunay is T. A. Carter Professor of Architecture in the School of Architecture + Design at Virginia Tech. He has served as Director of the Industrial Design Program and as Associate Dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies. He has taught at all levels of the graduate and undergraduate programs. Most interested in untapped territories of opportunity that lie between disciplines, his work bridges across interests in industrial design, architecture and planning and includes objects, buildings and planning initiatives. Professor Dunay was one of the primary faculty advisors for the 2002 and 2005 Virginia Tech entry in the Solar Decathlon Competition sponsored by the Dept. of Energy. Both projects fared well in the international competition with the 05 house capturing first place in critical categories of architecture, dwelling, day lighting and electric light judged by an international panel of architects and designers. He has also led two exhibitions selected on a competitive basis for the International Contemporary Furniture Fair held at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York. The 2003 exhibit won the Editor’s Award for Best Design School as determined by the editors of top international design magazines.

Vikram Sami

Vikram Sami is a Sustainable Design Analyst working in the Atlanta Office of Perkins+Will. He works closely with design teams to integrate sustainable design and analysis into the design process to create high performance design solutions that are climate and program specific. Over the last seven years Vikram has been combining his expertise in building energy and daylight analysis with his interest in building design to create high performance buildings. His research interest include thermal comfort and ventilation, building simulation techniques, global carbon reduction techniques and post occupancy evaluation. Vikram is a frequently published author at national and international conferences and was a lecturer at Georgia Tech. He has a Bachelors in Architecture from the Academy of Architecture, Bombay and MS in Building Performance from Arizona State University.

Victor Olgyay

A principal architect directing RMI’s Buildings Practice, Victor Olgyay is leading an initiative to encourage widespread adoption of comprehensive building energy retrofits resulting in energy savings of at least 50%. Victor has a wide range of experiences in architectural design and planning, with specializations in bioclimatic building, renewable energy and daylighting design. Current RMI projects include the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Ford Auto Dealership Retrofits, and the International Monetary Fund HQ1 Retrofit. Victor was an Associate Professor and Director of Research at the UH School of Architecture from 1993 to 2000. He has overseen numerous energy, environmental and lighting research projects for state and federal agencies, was appointed Chairman of AIA Honolulu’s Energy and Environment Committee 1995–2000, and in 1998 was named a Dana Fellow of the Joslyn Castle Institute for Sustainable Communities. He is currently on the Board of American Solar Energy Association, and a member of the National Academy of Environmental Design Research Committee.

His current research focuses on ecological restoration and ecosystem services for green building assessment, which was published by Elsevier Solar Energy 77 (2004) and has been widely presented, nationally and internationally. Victor’s research has expanded into building tool applications for demonstrating the reduction of carbon, water, and ecological footprints.

Steve Daley

In his 15 years of experience, Steve Daley has focused on K12 school design. He has been involved in project management, engineering, and energy modeling for more than 80 educational facilities. Steve has designed many types of HVAC systems based on sustainability, life cycle cost analysis, design guidelines, and input from maintenance personnel. He has been involved in the design of 13 LEED for Schools projects, including five LEED Gold and one LEED Platinum school. Steve has designed geothermal HVAC systems for two net zero schools, and is the energy modeling leader at Optima. Steve works closely with clients to calculate building loads, performs life cycle analyses to select the most efficient HVAC system, designs an effective layout, coordinates with other disciplines to ensure a productive working design, and construction phase. Steve is a successful presenter, having given seminars on energy recovery, net zero schools, and geothermal HVAC design. He has presented for the Council of Educational Facility Planners, International and Half Moon Seminars.

Dale Brentrup, AIA Professor and Director Center for Integrated Building Design Research University of North Carolina Charlotte

Brentrup, a member of the graduate faculty and is tenured Professor of Architecture at UNC-Charlotte. He is a registered architect and director of the Center for Integrated Building Design Research in the School of Architecture. Under his direction the Daylighting + Building Energy Performance, and the Environmental Systems Testing Laboratories have provided design assistance, professional training, laboratory simulation, post occupancy assessment | evaluation to the professional design community for over twenty years. He is currently the SoA liaison to the AIA Charlotte Board; is a senior research fellow in the Infrastructure Design Environment and Sustainability Center - Lee College of Engineering, UNC-Charlotte and currently serves the Daylighting and Daylighting Metrics committees of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America.

Professor Brentrup has extensive professional, teaching and research experience in daylighting, building energy performance | simulation and sustainable design methods. His research into occupant thermal and visual comfort is at the forefront of the development of integrated daylight harvesting, envelope systems | controls and expert simulation tools. The body of this work is directed toward the application of common methods, metrics and verification instrumentation essential to identifying the key factors that are: influencing demand side practice, determining current sustainable policy and governing energy utilization through environmental practices in public and commercial sector building. His expertise in evidenced based design continues to influence local and regional practice by enabling a movement toward regional market transformation in energy efficiency, integrated building design practice and appropriate technology.

Karen Butler

Ms. Butler is currently the National Manager for Commercial Building Design initiative at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s ENERGY STAR voluntary labeling program. She provides strategic outreach to the architectural commercial buildings community and its affiliates to elevate their awareness on incorporating energy performance targets during the project design phase.
Ms. Butler conceived and manages enhancements to the EPA Target Finder on-line tool; created in 1999. She helped orchestrate Target Finder’s acceptance to establish energy goals for Architecture 2030, American Institute of Architects’ Sustainable Practice, as well as state and federal requirements such as the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. She also works with 3rd party software developers maintaining the Target Finder interface with Building Information Modeling tools.