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(The Woodlands, TX - January 13, 2006) The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) Board of Directors has named Richard C. Haut, Ph.D., director of the Sustainable Technologies Group at the Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC), as one of the five founding members of its Research Committee.
The USGBC is the nation's foremost coalition of leaders from across the building industry promoting environmentally responsible, profitable and healthy places to live and work.
"I am honored to serve as part of a committee that will develop a national research roadmap for the built environment," Haut said. "We want to challenge the entire research community, including the technology developers, to create new building systems, materials and methodologies that will result in better use of our limited natural resources."
In addition to Dr. Haut, who represents the nonprofit community on the committee, other core members are:
- Bruce Hunn, Ph.D., P.E., American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers ASHRAE (professional society)
- Vivian Loftness, FAIA, Carnegie-Mellon University (university research)
- Steve Selkowitz, Ph.D., Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (federal laboratory)
- Alex Wilson, BuildingGreen, Inc. (news media)
Among its priorities, the USGBC Research Committee will:
- Disseminate existing research relevant to the greening of the built environment.
- Identify critical research needs for market transformation in greening the built environment.
- Promote fundamental and applied research related to sustainability of the built environment.
- Promote financial support for green building research - among government, foundation, academic, non-profit, and corporate entities.
- Contribute to the scientific basis for future versions of the LEED rating systems.
- Support benchmarking methodologies relating to building performance (energy, indoor environmental quality, environmental impacts, human productivity)
- Support research activities relating to green building.
For more information about USGBC visit www.usgbc.org
For more information about HARC visit www.harc.edu
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| Page Updated/Reviewed: 01/13/2006 |
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