Energy and Buildings
President’s Task Force on Carbon Neutrality and Climate Resilience
Working Group on Energy and Buildings
The Working Group on Energy and Buildings (Working Group 1) focuses on electricity and heat generation; energy and water consumption by University owned and leased buildings; and energy and water consumption by off-campus housing and other buildings used by the University community.
The Working Group will be attentive to the relative roles of on-campus energy and utility-supplied energy, as well as methane leakage associated with natural gas usage. The Working Group’s remit includes both strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with energy and buildings, and also the resilience of energy infrastructure to climate change impacts.
To see the detailed charge for the Working Group on Energy and Buildings, click here.
Energy and Buildings Working Group Members
Co-Chairs
Clint Andrews
Director, Rutgers Center for Green Building
Professor and Associate Dean for Research, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
Rutgers University–New Brunswick
Mike Kornitas
Director of Sustainability and Energy, Facilities, Institutional Planning and Operations
Rachael Shwom
Associate Director, Rutgers Energy Institute
Associate Professor, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
Rutgers University–New Brunswick
Members
Laura Berman
Senior Director of Design and Assistant University Architect, Institutional Planning and Operations
Holly Berman
PhD Candidate, Bloustein School of Public Planning and Policy
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Dunbar Birnie
Professor, School of Engineering
Rutgers University–New Brunswick
Kathleen Black
Senior Research Associate, Rutgers Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute
Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences
Janice Davey
Assistant Vice President, Renovation and Infrastructure Services, Institutional Planning and Operations
Ahmed Ezzat
Assistant Professor, School of Engineering
Rutgers University–New Brunswick
John Fritzen
Director, Facilities Renovations, Institutional Planning and Operations
Carol Hazlet
Major Account Consultant, PSE&G
Boyd Moore
Senior Director, Facilities Operations and Services, Institutional Planning and Operations
Mollie Passacantando
Undergraduate Student, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
Rutgers University–New Brunswick
Nirav Patel
Assistant Research Professor and Director of Experiential Learning, Honors College
Rutgers University–New Brunswick
Shailesh Patel
Director, Project Services, Institutional Planning and Operations
Mark Rodgers
Assistant Professor, Rutgers Business School
Rutgers University–Newark
Kinan Tadmori
Masters student, Business & Science program, Sustainability concentration
Rutgers University–New Brunswick
Glenn Vliet
Senior Director, Utilities Operations, Institutional Planning and Operations
Amy Wang
Undergraduate Student, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
Rutgers University–New Brunswick