Industry Inspiration

Kevin Kampschroer is the Federal Director of the Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings at the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA). He led the team that devised the strategy to accomplish the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s mandate to move GSA’s Federal building inventory toward high-performance green buildings. He has devised a challenge for energy services companies to dramatically improve the government’s ability to achieve deep retrofits through Energy Savings Performance contracts—which has doubled the amount of energy conservation from these contracts. His team manages the government’s implementation of a comprehensive improvement in the training and certification of facility managers and personnel across the entire Federal government (Federal Buildings Personnel Training Act of 2010). Mr. Kampschroer has lectured at various universities such as MIT, Harvard, Georgia Tech, and Yale. His most recent publication as a contributing author is the first medical study showing the link between building characteristics on office worker stress and heart function-which showed the beneficial results of good lighting, natural light and IEQ. He has worked for GSA for over 39 years and is a graduate of Yale University.

Mr. Ütebay has over 20 years of experience in the education, research, energy efficiency, indoor air, water efficiency, and science (physics) and technology fields. He currently serves as the Deputy Program Manager for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) “Analytical, Technical & Outreach Support for ENERGY STAR Commercial, Institutional and Industrial Sectors” contract. In this capacity, he focuses on strategic market transformation for energy/water efficiency in public and private sectors – including private companies, nonprofit organizations and institutions, and associations – by educating building owners regarding conservation strategies and assisting them with implementation, especially with energy/water performance measurement using EPA’s Portfolio Manager tool. Over the past 13 years, he has helped benchmark the energy and water use of tens of thousands of buildings for dozens of building types. In recognition of his noteworthy leadership in the K‐12 sector, Mr. Ütebay was appointed as a Technical Advisor to the Green Schools Alliance National Advisory Board in 2008. He was elected as a member of Board of Directors to the Clean Air Partners in 2012 and currently volunteers his second term.