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STAFF PROFILE
Lisa Heschong
HMG Principal/Executive
Officer
Lisa Heschong is
a Managing Principal of the Heschong Mahone Group,
Inc. and a licensed architect who has divided
her 30 year professional career between energy research, writing and
building design. She is an internationally recognized expert on
daylighting, lighting energy use, and human factors in building design.
As a researcher, Ms.
Heschong led the research team that found a correlation between the
presence of daylight in classrooms and improved student performance, and
completed three additional studies for the California Energy Commission
Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) program looking at how daylight
and window characteristics influence human performance in offices,
schools and retail buildings. She also led the team that analyzed
baseline lighting characteristics for both the residential and
commercial sectors and created a computer model of lighting energy use
for the California Energy Commission. She led projects analyzing the
field performance of daylit buildings across the west coast, and
currently is leading a large, international effort (partially funded by
PIER) to establish a new set of climate-based daylight performance
metrics. These projects typically involve extensive field data
collection and sophisticated analysis of massive databases.
As an energy
consultant, she helped pioneer the new outdoor lighting codes for
California’s Title 24, especially the methodology for establishing
outdoor lighting zones across the state. She has consulted on numerous
daylit buildings, including two schools that received the first set of
awards for High Performing Schools in California. She has participated
in numerous process and impact evaluation studies, especially for new
construction and market transformation assessments. She serves as
principal-in-charge for all of HMG’s multi-family energy efficiency
programs, both new and retrofit, for the California utilities and other
clients.
As a writer and
educator, she worked with Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories to synthesize
their research into Residential Windows: A Guide to New Technologies
and Energy Performance (WW Norton). She also is author of
Thermal Delight in Architecture (MIT Press), and a co-author of the
Advanced Lighting Guidelines, the CHPS Best Practices Manual,
and the Skylighting Guidelines, three web-based publications.
She has published scholarly papers, written for trade magazines, and
conducted numerous lectures and workshops across the country on issues
of daylighting, high performance design, energy efficiency, and human
comfort. She also developed self-paced web-based distance learning
courses for the U.S. Department of Energy called FEMP Lights and the
California utilities, called EDR Lights.
Prior to HMG, in her
past life as a practicing architect, Ms. Heschong managed projects to
design high-rise office buildings, urban infill projects, K-12 schools,
and residences; run her own one-woman practice; and consulted on
numerous school designs. She also taught studio design at the
Architecture Department of the University of California at Berkeley for
three years.
Ms. Heschong was
recently elected to the Board of Directors of IESNA, and is currently
Chair of the IESNA Subcommittee on Daylight Metrics. She has served as
the human factors panel leader for ACEEE conferences and is the author
of a number of commercially successful books.
Ms. Heschong was
awarded her B.Sc. at UC Berkeley, Summa Cum Laude, and her Master of
Architecture degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with
the AIA Medal.
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