| STAFF PROFILE
Heather Larson
- Building Science Research
Project Manager
 Ms.
Larson has extensive experience in architecture and sustainable building
consulting. She manages the California Multifamily New Homes program
sponsored by Pacific Gas & Electric Co, and previously managed the
ENERGY STARŪ Multifamily New Homes program sponsored by Southern
California Edison.
As
an energy efficiency incentive program manager, Ms. Larson leads a team
of analysts who coordinate with multifamily new construction developers,
design teams and HERS raters, from schematic design through construction
to assure quality design and implementation of energy saving measures.
Ms. Larson provides design assistance, plan checking, energy efficiency
building code analysis, and manages program reporting with Utility
contract managers. Ms. Larson's presentations on building energy
efficiency have been featured at numerous housing and green building
industry conferences and she conducts trainings for architects,
engineers, energy consultants and building officials on CA building
energy standards.
She
has been instrumental in developing and launching new energy efficiency
programs and is currently working with the US EPA to develop
California's High-rise Multifamily ENERGY STAR New Homes Pilot Program.
Ms. Larson has contributed technical analysis and co-authorship to
several successful building science research and utility contract
proposals.
Ms.
Larson is a steering committee member of the Green Affordable Housing
Coalition (GAHC), a USGBC Residential Green Building Advocacy committee
member, is a CABEC Certified Energy Plans Examiner, is HERS certified
through CHEERS and CalCERTS, is an associate member of the AIA East Bay,
and a board Member of ADPSR. Through her role as a multifamily new
construction program manager she has been invited to participate in
Housing California's New Solar Homes Partnership Working Group, LEED for
Homes Multifamily National Working Group, and the ENERGY STAR for
High-rise Multifamily advisory. She co-authored an article published in
the Society of Building Science Educators Summer 2005 Newsletter titled
Building Science Curricula Perspectives.
Ms.
Larson received her BA with Honors in Architecture at UC Berkeley, and
her MS in Design Science and Sustainable Design with High Honors from
the University of Sydney, Australia. Ms. Larson's MS thesis was titled:
Solar Design Resources: Vernacular of the California-Mexico Border
Climate Zones.
Previously
at Architects Kauai, Ms. Larson served as the project manager and
primary designer on several multifamily building upgrades for
accessibility and managed a mixed-use new construction project
integrating re-claimed materials and passive ventilation. At Hope
Architects in Oakland, Ms. Larson was a member of a design-build team
for green residential buildings.
To contact Heather, email her at
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