Westford Symposium

Twenty-Seventh Westford Symposium on Building Science

Embodied CO2e (Andy Shapiro and Jacob Racusin)

Andy Shapiro has a barefoot engineering degree from Brown University and is President for Life of Energy Balance, Inc. Jacob Racusin is an embodied carbon researcher with Builders for Climate Action… Learn More

Can We Learn From Our Past? (Sophie Mercier)

Sophie Mercier is a building envelope specialist and co-founder of Evoke Buildings, a Vancouver-based Building Science and Energy consulting firm. She is going to ponder: With our eyes on the prize… Learn More

Diagnosing Unhealthy Indoor Environments (Eva King)

Eva King is the founder and principal scientist at Aura EnviroServices. Keswick, VA. She has a Ph.D. in immunoepidemiology from the University of Oxford, UK. Her work focuses on diagnosing indoor… Learn More

Floods, Fires, and Indoor Health Aftermath (Claudia Miller and Carl Grimes)

Claudia Miller. MD, MS started as an industrial hygienist is now Professor Emerita in Allergy/Immunology and Environmental Health at the University of Texas. Carl Grimesis Managing Director of… Learn More

Mass Timber Wet Spots (Chris Schumacher)

Chris Schumacher is a senior building science consultant at RDH and a Adjunct Professor at the University of Waterloo. Chris is going to talk about his experience dealing with moisture management in… Learn More

Building Assembly Fire Resistance (Ed Fronapfel)

Ed Fronaphel is with SBSA in Golden, CO and is a structural engineer who burns things to see how they work. This is a big deal. He has several decades of experience in forensic engineering analysis.… Learn More

SIPS... It's about the joints and more (Henri Fennell)

Henri is a building enclosure specialist and an architect with over 40 years of experience. He has done countless remediation, building failure and historic renovation projects including the… Learn More

Daylighting (Marc-Rosenbaum)

Marc Rosenbaum, P.E., received a BS and MS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the Founder and Principal of Energysmiths and built his first superinsulated house in 1978. Marc will… Learn More

Fire Stopping, Compartmentalization and Sound Transmission (Tim Mattox)

Tim Mattox is a mechanical engineer from Oklahoma State University and has spent 30 years developing fire test standards. Tim worked to establish UL Systems Categories combining air and water… Learn More

HVAC solutions for Multi-family Housing (James Petersen)

James Petersen is a mechanical engineer with over 40 years of experience. James embraces a whole building approach that dramatically reduces heating and cooling loads and then matches them with HVAC… Learn More

Aerobarrier in Existing Single and Multifamily Homes (Bohac and Lubliner)

Dave Bohac is the research director at the Minnesota Center for Energy and Environment. Mike Lubliner is a senior energy advisor at Oak Ridge Energy Laboratory. Dave and Mike will share their work… Learn More

Aerobarrier (Mark Modera)

Mark Modera is a professor at UC Davis and is the inventor of AeroBarrier. Mark will talk about technology developments for duct and enclosure sealing. Mark is better known as a beach volleyball… Learn More

Indoor Air Quality: How Much Ventilation? (William Bahnfleth)

William Bahnfleth is the past president of ASHRAE. Even more impressive he is a Professor of Architectural Engineering at Penn State. He chaired the ASHRAE Epidemic Task Force. Ventilation rates are… Learn More

Low Carbon Buildings (John Straube)

John Straube is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. John will present on carbon in buildings: embodied and operational… Learn More