We are a small group, passionate about our involvement in, and development of open-source, educational software to serve the building industry. Our backgrounds range from architecture to 3D modeling. We are bikers, gamers, educators, and readers; we have IKEA-desk team-building exercises and rearrange the furniture at least twice weekly. We are on a quest to try every restaurant surrounding our daylit, naturally vented, historic office in Berkeley, from the hot dog stand at Ashby BART to the less-cost-prohibitive fringes of the Gourmet Ghetto. We LOVE acronyms.
As SuPerB's Executive Director, Joe manages SuPerB's core projects, including several large, multi-organization eLearning software development projects for the buildings industry. For over 30 years, he has helped to develop more energy-efficient, sustainable buildings worldwide, and has developed and disseminated educational software, resources, and information. Over the winter of 2009-2010, while on a 10-month leave-of-absence from SuPerB to be a visiting researcher within the Building Technologies Department of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, he managed two projects developing eLearning tools for commercial buildings and their systems. Joe enjoys riding his Bianchi to and from the office.
Currently serving as SuPerB's Learn Green Buildings project administrator and go-to educational consultant, with over 30 years experience as a scientist/educator Rollie, remains an\ enthusiastic advocate for science, engineering and technical education."Retirement" from his distinguished career as an educator/scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California only seemed to energize his activities in the field. Rollie has developed, led, and managed projects to educate and train thousands of students and teachers at the graduate, undergraduate, and precollege levels for the US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, California Department of Education and the Stephen D. Bechtel Foundation. With a Ph.D in nuclear and physical chemistry, Rollie has had the opportunity to work with world class scientists, including two Nobel Prize winners. Recently Rollie developed www.godsoutrageousuniverse.org to witness to the harmony between his rich background and experiences from his Lutheran faith and science.
J. Elliot Nahman holds a BA in Architecture from UC Berkeley, and is currently completing a MS/PhD in its Building Science program, where he has conducted research with the Center for the Built Environment on a wide range of topics. In 2009, as though anticipating how he might serve SuPerB's mission and scope at least a year before becoming a SuPerBian, Elliot taught a building performance course as a graduate student instructor that included the fundamentals of building physics, daylighting, and solar control, while recognizing the evolving nature of building technologies, energy efficiency, ecology, and design. Further demonstrating his true SuPerBian nature and love of acronyms, in 2009 and 2010 he was awarded a TGIF grant (UC Berkeley's Green Initiative Fund) to install water monitoring infrastructure on campus. His never-ending thesis focuses on research methodologies for thermal comfort in transient environments. While avoiding said thesis, he enjoys hiking, cooking, baking, TED talks, photography, complaining about technology, and playing his guitar or listening to music (from bluegrass to the symphony).
Andrew R. Scully is a graphic artist and animator. After graduating from Syracuse University with a BFA in Computer Art and Animation, he freelanced as a graphic artist, applying his skills to a wide range of projects, from website-development for burgeoning non-profits to print advertising for international companies. Currently, Andrew is developing 3-D models for SuPerB's open-source educational resources, as well as serving as the senior author within the National Weatherization Training Project Platform (https://nwtp.sri.com). An east-coast transplant with west-coast sensibilities, when he is not reverse-commuting between San Francisco and Berkeley, Andrew enjoys illustrating the margins of notebooks, gaming, slogging around the world of American and international political media, and gaming.
Susan Haufler has recently joined SuPerB as Project Coordinator and Office Manager. She holds a BA in Architecture from UC Berkeley, a California Multiple Subject Teaching Credential, and is currently pursuing a master's degree in Library and Information Science. Her previous roles as Business Analyst, Project Manager, Architectural Designer, and Teacher have made her ironically well-suited to support the SuPerBian mission. In her free time, she enjoys open-water swimming, knitting, playing online Scrabble, and spending time with her husband, two children, and three cats.
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At the Institute for the Sustainable Performance of Buildings (SuPerB), we conduct research and develop educational resources to improve the performance, resource efficiency, and sustainability of buildings.
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