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Melissa Malkin-Weber RECOGNITION Member, North Carolina Bar Association ACCOMPLISHMENTS Before joining Advanced Energy in 2008, Melissa Malkin-Weber worked at RTI International for eight years. There, she supported the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), collecting data and working with stakeholders to set air quality regulations. Malkin-Weber wrote case studies on the solutions found by industrial facilities, which implemented pollution prevention to reduce hazardous waste. She also worked with the EPA to document methods for measuring savings from pollution prevention efforts. At RTI, she led the internal Hazardous Waste Committee to be recognized with a waste reduction award from the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources. Today, Malkin-Weber is the research director for Advanced Energy’s Applied Business Science team, leading a team of building scientists and data analysts. They research knowledge and new information for the residential market. Her team provides invaluable information for a variety of organizations including federal agencies, local construction firms, pest control operators and home performance contractors. She has successfully collaborated with a variety of partners including the EPA, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma & Lung Biology, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Center for Energy Management Technologies. MY PHILOSOPHY ON ENERGY EFFICIENCY As building scientists, we have an exciting opportunity to integrate what we know about health into the energy efficiency efforts going into buildings today. We can take critical steps to creating a healthy home. First, we exclude, dilute and trap indoor and outdoor pollutants. Then we suppress and exclude biology through measures such as preventing condensation and eliminating pests. Finally, we also have to look outside of the house envelope to personal safety, physical activity, community connections and transportation access to jobs when we design and locate a home. EDUCATION Bachelor of Arts, Writing and Rhetoric, State University of New York at Binghamton CONTACT INFORMATION |