Heather Burpee EDAC, Assoc. AIA

Heather Burpee (she/her), Associate Professor of Research at the University of Washington Integrated Design Lab, is a nationally recognized scholar in high-performance buildings — buildings that reduce energy and promote healthy indoor environments. Her work bridges practice, research, and education with collaboration between practitioners, faculty, and students. She leads major national and international research initiatives that develop roadmaps for achieving deep energy goals and has experience working directly with design teams to establish and realize deep energy reduction, health and wellness objectives, and other performance-related goals. Her focus is on collaborative, integrated design practices and includes tracking performance-based goals from project inception through operation. Burpee earned her Master of Architecture from the University of Washington and a Bachelor of Arts in biology from Whitman College.