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Cyrus Dastur RECOGNITION Rater Certification, Home Energy Rating Systems (HERS) ACCOMPLISHMENTS Cyrus Dastur joined Advanced Energy’s Applied Building Science team in 2000. His key projects included designing a management information system for SystemVision and managing Advanced Energy’s federally-sponsored crawl space research projects. In 2005 he provided technical support to the North Carolina Building Code Council to improve residential code language for the installation of closed crawl spaces. Today, Dastur works with Advanced Energy’s high-performance school and commercial building programs. He performs diagnostic assessments and provides design support for the SystemVision information system. Before joining Advanced Energy, Dastur worked as an educator at the North Carolina Museum of Life & Science. He also worked as a training and software developer for Cato Research and as a carpenter for two residential remodeling companies. MY PHILOSOPHY ON ENERGY EFFICIENCY I believe that the keys to creating a healthy and safe future for our nation are reducing energy consumption, flattening peak loads and converting to renewable energy sources. To achieve this we will need a powerful combination of personal action, free market strategy and government regulation. Conventional energy generation competes with people and industries for water, and creates waste products that pollute our water, air and land. By reducing consumption and converting to renewable energy sources, we will improve public health, create jobs, improve national security and ensure adequate energy for essential services. Flattening peak loads helps us make better use of the energy sources we already have. Converting to renewable energy sources allows us to preserve our coal, oil and natural gas for uses that do not yet have alternatives. Throughout many generations, builders, designers and building scientists have learned how to reduce energy consumption in buildings while simultaneously improving their safety, comfort and durability. To get those benefits along with a positive return on investment, builders and homeowners need good information, good implementation processes and convenient tools to verify performance EDUCATION Bachelor of Science, Engineering, Duke University CONTACT INFORMATION |
