Connect Ideas, Maximize Impact: Climate-Responsive Design through Collaboration
presentation by Erik Olsen, PE, Managing Partner, Transsolar KlimaEngineering, New York, NY.

Time and Place

Time: 4:30pm
Location: Architecture and Urban Planning Building 170

Bio

Erik is a managing partner at Transsolar KlimaEngineering, an international climate engineering firm determined to create exceptional, highly comfortable indoor and outdoor spaces with a positive environmental impact. He leads the New York office in working collaboratively with architects worldwide to develop and validate low-energy, architecturally integrated climate and energy concepts. The result is celebrated projects such as the Angelos Law Center at the University of Baltimore that simultaneously enhance human experience and minimize resource use. Erik has been lecturer and guest critic at universities including Harvard University, MIT, University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia University. In addition to his specialist work at Transsolar, he has worked as a consulting mechanical engineer on a wide variety of building types and launched and directed the City of Chicago’s Green Permit Program. Erik is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Purdue University.

Lecture Summary

Transsolar is an international climate engineering firm determined to create exceptional, highly comfortable indoor and outdoor spaces with a positive environmental impact. We believe that the very measures taken to create remarkable architecture can simultaneously enhance human experience and minimize resource use. To us, sustainability is not separate from design, but an indispensable component that enhances the experience of the built environment.

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