Dr. Jeffrey S. Haberl is the Liz & Nelson Mitchell Professor in Residential Design in the Department of Architecture and an Associate Director of the Energy Systems Laboratory. He is an ASHRAE Fellow, an IPMVP Fellow, an IBPSA Fellow and a TEES Center Fellow. Dr. Haberl’s educational background includes B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Colorado at Boulder and post-doctoral research at Princeton University’s Center for Energy and Environmental Studies. Dr. Haberl came to Texas A&M in 1989 and has dedicated nearly 35+ years ($44.7 million as a Co-PI and $2.9 million as a PI) performing building energy research at Texas A&M University, Princeton University, the University of Colorado, Rockwell International, the Colorado State Office of Energy Conservation, the City of Boulder, and the USDOE Administrative Services.

His work emphasizes building energy modeling, statistical modeling, methods for diagnosing operational problems, operator feedback using comparisons of predicted and actual energy use, artificial intelligence, advanced energy usage graphics, prescreening calculations for improving commercial and residential energy audits, public-domain M&V algorithms, computerized solar shading procedures, accuracy tests for HVAC systems, BIM-to-thermal procedures, and procedures for calculating air pollution savings from energy efficiency and renewable energy projects (i.e., SOx, NOx, CO2, PM and Hg).

He is a Co-PI of the Laboratory’s Texas Emissions Reduction Program (TERP), along with Mr. Bahman Yazdani, and Dr. Juan-Carlos Baltazar, where he provides technical leadership for the IC3 code compliance calculator and emissions calculations from energy efficiency and renewable energy. He is a Co-PI for the USEPA’s National Center of Excellence on Displaced Emissions Reductions (CEDER), with Dr. Charles Culp and Mr. Bahman Yazdani, which was established in the Spring of 2007 to help the EPA transfer the Texas emissions reductions calculation procedures to other states. He has been PI and/or Co-PI on ASHRAE Research Projects (RP-827, RP-865, RP-1050, RP- 1093, RP-1017, RP-1468); Co-PI on an NSF project for creating physically-based, BIM-to-thermal simulations; PI on the National Academy of Sciences Transportation Research Board (TRB) project for benchmarking airport terminal energy use; and a Co- PI of Texas A&M University’s 2007 Solar Decathlon Effort, with Pliny Fisk as the PI. He was the Principal Investigator for the Computer Support and Improved Energy Audit of the Texas LoanSTAR project from 1990 to 2002, a $98.6 million revolving loan for the state of Texas that was the largest first large-scale project in the United States to continuously measure and report energy savings in over 160 building energy conservation retrofits. Finally, he has written 30 books or book chapters, 100 journal articles, 219 conference proceeding articles, 400 reports and has 14 national and international patents. He has also served as the Chair for 20 MS and 32 PhD students.