Stephen Selkowitz
Awards
2018 Director’s Award for Exceptional Achievement: Technology Transfer - August 8th 2018
A Living Lab partnership with Goldman Sachs (GS) leveraged LBNL's world-class science to obtain an objective assessment of innovative daylighting and lighting energy efficiency technologies and promote lessons learned strategies throughout the worldwide GS organization and the broader buildings industry.
2014 Engineering News-Record Award of Excellence - April 3rd 2014
The editors of Engineering News-Record magazine have given Stephen Selkowitz is the 2014 Award of Excellence "for relentlessly working to reduce the carbon footprint of buildings and for moving the nation toward better building performance, as well as for being the master of commercializing energy-efficient building technologies and the mastermind of FLEXLAB®," the Facility for Low-Energy eXperimens in Buildings located at Berkeley Lab.
2012 Berkeley Lab Prize: Lifetime Achievement Award: Societal Impact - May 25th 2012
Few people in the world have had as big an impact on reducing energy use in buildings as Steve Selkowitz. Buildings account for 40% of the U.S. energy use, and more than 70% of the electricity used in this country — major contributors to global carbon dioxide emissions. As Head of the Building Technologies Department for the past 35 years, Steve has created the leading program in the world in Energy Efficient Building Technologies. Steve has provided the overall scientific vision, coordination, management and leadership of a department with a diverse staff of more than 80 researchers in six major RDD&D activities related to energy use in buildings: commercial building systems, building simulation research, windows and daylighting, lighting systems, demand response research, and applications team...While Steve modestly credits his department with the numerous accomplishments, the truth is he has been the visionary and driving spirit behind much of the work his talented team has produced. Steve Selkowitz is the 'Steve Jobs' in the world of energy-efficient buildings — he has literally changed how we design, build, and inhabit buildings the world over.
I.D. Forty Award, International Design Magazine - January 15th 2001
For Contributions to Sophisticated, Energy-Efficient Windows.
Award for Architectural Research, Architecture Magazine and the Initiative for Architectural Research - December 6th 1999
For Daylighting with Integrated Envelope and Lighting Systems
Sol Cohn Memorial Award, Illuminating Engineering Society - August 18th 1997
For Outstanding Contributions to the Fields of Lighting and Vision.
Special Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer, The Federal Laboratory Consortium - September 20th 1993
For superwindows
Technical Award, The Energy Efficient Buildings Association - December 9th 1991
For exceptional technical contributions to energy-efficient buildings design and practice.
Grand Award, Best of What's New (Home Technologies), Popular Science Magazine - July 9th 1991
For development of Gas-filled insulating panels.
Citation, Progressive Architecture Magazine - March 6th 1989
For Skylight Design Manual and software.
Special Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer, The Federal Laboratory Consortium - August 5th 1988
For developing and transferring to industry the WINDOW thermal analysis computer program.
Citation, Progressive Architecture Magazine - July 15th 1985
For developing sky simulator for realistic testing of daylight designs.
Willis H. Carrier Award, ASHRAE - April 23rd 1979
For a paper describing advanced window system performance.