Victor Olgyay: AIA, Principal

Contact Information

Rocky Mountain Institute
Attn: Built Environment Team
1820 Folsom Street
Boulder, Colorado 80302

e-mail: BET@rmi.org
phone: 303-245-1003

Victor Olgyay is a Principal Architect on RMI’s Built Environment Team and has a wide range of experiences in architectural design, planning, laboratory design and integration, environmental and acoustical systems, with specialization in lighting and daylighting design.

Background

Victor Olgyay, AIA is a registered architect and has worked independently and with several private and state firms doing architectural design, programming, post-occupancy evaluations and design guidelines. Victor has published numerous research papers as well as being a primary writer and researcher with W.M.C.Lam of Sunlighting as Formgiver for Architecture (VNR 1986), and co-author of Architectural Lighting (McGraw Hill, 2002) with David Egan. He is frequently called on to speak at conferences, and was recently a featured speaker at the Third International Humane Habitat Conference in Bombay, India. Victor was an Associate Professor and Director of Research at the UH School of Architecture from 1993 to 2000 and has overseen numerous energy, environmental and lighting research projects under contract to various state and federal agencies. He was appointed Chairman of the AIA Honolulu Energy and Environment Committee 1995–2000, and in 1998 he was named a Dana Fellow of the Joslyn Castle Institute for Sustainable Communities. He is currently on the Board of Directors for the American Solar Energy Association, and is working with the USGBC on their international Task Force and Life Cycle Assessment group. His recent research has focused on ecological restoration and on ecosystem services as criteria for green building assessment. This work was published by Elsevier (Solar Energy 77 (2004) 389 – 398) and has been widely presented. Victor’s current research expands this research into building tool application, especially for demonstrating the reduction of carbon, water, and ecological footprints.

Education

Master of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996
Bachelor of Science, Antioch College, 1980

Qualifications

Licensed Architect, Colorado, Massachusetts and Hawaii
LEED 2.0 Accredited Professional

Professional Affiliations/Recognition

American Institute of Architects (AIA)
American Solar Energy Association (ASES)
American Society of Heating, Cooling, and Ventilation (ASHRAE)
Illumination Engineering Society of North America (IESNA)
Society of Building Science Educators (SBSE)
Passive and Low Energy Architecture (PLEA)
Faculty of U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC)
Adjunct Staff of University of Hawaii School of Architecture
Green Building Faculty of Institute for the Built Environment

Publications

Sunlighting as Formgiver to Architecture, 1986, W.M.C. Lam, McGraw Hill
Concepts of Architectural Lighting, 2000, 2nd edition with M. David Egan, McGraw Hill