Stephen Selkowitz

Stephen E. Selkowitz is an American building scientist, and a leading researcher of energy efficiency in building envelopes. He is currently a senior advisor for building science at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In 2014, he received the Award of Excellence from Engineering News-Record (formerly the Man of the Year award).

Life and career Selkowitz was born March 8, 1948, and grew up in Newton, Massachusetts. His father was a pharmacist.

Awards Selkowitz received the ENR 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 eXperiments in Buildings located at Berkeley Lab.