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Home::Georgia Tech's SFI Program::Core Staff Members
SFI
Adjunct and Supporting Staff Dr.
Annie Pearce, Program Director Click here to view Dr. Pearce's complete curriculum vita, including research, teaching, and industry experience and a list of publications and presentations. Jennifer
DuBose Click here to view Ms. DuBose's complete curriculum vita, including research, teaching, and industry experience and a list of publications and presentations. Corey
Fischer Click here to view Ms. Fischer's complete curriculum vita, including research, teaching, and industry experience and a list of publications and presentations. Sheila
Bosch Click here to view Ms. Bosch's complete curriculum vita, including research, teaching, and industry experience and a list of publications and presentations. Dr.
John Estes Dr. Estes received his Ph.D. from Arizona State University with research on developing modeling of complex economics involving capital procurement. He is a Fellow with the Society of American Military Engineers. His primary areas of research and interests include sustainability, master planning, and Homeland Defense. Don
Landry Mr. Landry has a Master of Science in Environmental Science and Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines, and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University. Alison Young Ms. Young has a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Human and Natural Ecology from Emory University (Atlanta, GA) with ongoing studies towards a Master of Science in Environmental Management from the University of Texas, San Antonio. Click here to view Ms.Young's complete curriculum vita, including research, teaching, and industry experience and a list of publications and presentations. The core SFI team is supplemented with Graduate Research Assistants, Undergraduate Research Assistants, and other Georgia Tech faculty and staff on a per project basis. SFI Adjunct and Supporting Staff Dr.
Jorge Vanegas Click here to view Dr. Vanegas' complete curriculum vita, including research, teaching, and industry experience and a list of publications and presentations. |
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Dr.
Annie Pearce is a Senior Research Engineer and Director of the nationally
known Sustainable Facilities and Infrastructure (SFI) Program at the
Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI). Dr. Pearce’s background
includes experience with a variety of aspects of sustainability, including
development and delivery of training programs at the K-12, university,
and professional development/continuing education levels that have
reached well over 1,000 individuals, as well as technical assistance
and consulting to owners, architects, engineers, and construction
firms in the U.S. and abroad. Her work at Georgia Tech includes shared
appointments with the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
and the College of Architecture, where she has taught courses on Green
Building, Environmentally Conscious Design and Construction, Sustainable
Civil Infrastructure Systems, and Sustainable Design and is a regularly
invited guest lecturer on sustainability for fifteen other courses
on campus. She is also actively involved with the development and
deployment of a seven-course continuing education certificate series
in Sustainable Facilities and Infrastructure, and has provided sustainability
training for owner, design, and construction firms on local, national,
and international scales. Her areas of expertise include metrics of
sustainability for prioritization, decision making, and problem solving;
sustainability implementation, innovation, and organizational change;
infrastructure planning and management; structural rehabilitation
and building hardening; artificial neural network applications in
engineering; decision making and selection processes for construction
project design and management; nontraditional building materials and
practices; project life cycle costing under uncertainty; teaching
and learning; sustainable urban revitalization; and human interaction
with sustainable technologies. Dr. Pearce is a LEED™ Accredited
Professional. She is also the Research Director of the newly-established
Center for Sustainable Urban Revitalization at Georgia Tech, where
her work includes development of research programs on technologies,
metrics, and processes for the sustainable redevelopment of urban
areas. 
Ms.
Jennifer DuBose is a Research Associate II with the Sustainable Facilities
and Infrastructure (SFI) Program at the Georgia Tech Research Institute
(GTRI). Ms. DuBose has worked in the field of sustainability for over
10 years from a variety of perspectives, including the private sector
translating sustainability into action for a manufacturing company,
in academia developing educational materials and writing research
papers, for a non-profit creating collaborative projects and in hands-on
international development in Africa. She has expertise in developing
metrics for sustainability, performing life cycle assessments of products,
measuring greenhouse gas emissions, comparative analysis of products
and processes, incorporating human concerns into technical analysis,
community organizing and communicating with diverse stakeholders.
Ms. DuBose holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Policy from
the Georgia Institute of Technology with an emphasis in sustainable
development and a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from Oglethorpe
University. Ms. DuBose joined SFI in Fall 2002 to expand SFI’s
capabilities in sustainable development from a public policy standpoint.
Ms. DuBose contributes to SFI’s research and outreach activities
by serving as an industry liaison and leading SFI’s efforts
in international development programs. Her areas of expertise include
community revitalization, urban redevelopment, diffusion of sustainable
construction practices, human behavioral influences on the adoption
of sustainable technologies, energy efficiency programs for residential
construction, greenhouse gas reduction projects, and educational case
study development.
Ms.
Corey Fischer is a Research Engineer II at the Georgia Tech Research
Institute. Ms. Fischer joined Georgia Tech’s Sustainable Facilities
& Infrastructure (SFI) Program in Spring 1999 to assist with the
development and deployment of SFI's Continuing Education Certificate
Series in Sustainable Facilities and Infrastructure. Since then, Ms.
Fischer has taken an active role in the development of SFI's organizational
and administrative framework as well as in the prioritization and
development of new research and outreach activities. Ms. Fischer received
her Master of Science degree from Georgia Tech's School of Civil and
Environmental Engineering, with an emphasis on subsurface contaminant
flow and remediation. In addition, Ms. Fischer has earned her Master
of City Planning degree with a specialization in environmental planning
from Georgia Tech's College of Architecture. Ms. Fischer's work at
GTRI has focused on technical outreach activities for sustainable
communities and brownfield redevelopment, and sustainable facilities
and infrastructure research. Prior to coming to GTRI, Ms. Fischer
worked as an environmental consultant in both the northeast and southeast.
Her responsibilities during her consulting career included acting
as an assistant program manager for a nationwide environmental management
program, where she was responsible for all phases of projects from
proposal initiation to report preparation. Her areas of expertise
include environmental policy, brownfield redevelopment, community
revitalization, community outreach, sustainable communities, sustainable
facilities and infrastructure, environmental GIS applications, economic
development, group facilitation, and strategic planning.
Ms.
Sheila Bosch is a Shackelford Fellow at the Georgia Tech Research
Institute and a doctoral student in Georgia Tech College of Architecture’s
Building Technologies Program. Ms. Bosch joined SFI in Fall 1999.
Her contributions to the SFI program have included development and
deployment of new educational modules for the SFI continuing education
program, initiation of internal and external partnerships to extend
SFI capabilities, and identification of new research areas for SFI.
Ms. Bosch developed an interest in sustainable design and construction
while working as a Pollution Prevention Specialist at Aberdeen Proving
Ground (APG), a U.S. Army Installation near Baltimore, MD. While at
APG, Ms. Bosch focused her energies on pollution prevention training
and outreach, policy development and implementation, affirmative procurement,
hazardous materials management, and product substitution. Her career
in pollution prevention began in 1992, supporting the development
and comparative evaluation of chemical ranking and scoring systems
with the University of Tennessee’s Center for Clean Products
and Clean Technologies. Her current interests include high performance
schools, post-occupancy evaluation, green building rating systems,
occupant responses to interior environments, and overcoming barriers
to implementing sustainable facility strategies. She holds a Bachelor’s
degree in Science Education and a Master’s degree in Environmental
Toxicology, both from the University of Tennessee. Ms. Bosch’s
areas of expertise include sustainable facilities and infrastructure,
green building rating systems, organizational learning and the adoption
of sustainable design and construction practices, building performance
assessment, implementation of sustainable design and construction
by U.S. governmental agencies, and the manufacture and use of nontraditional
building materials.see. 
Dr. John Estes is a Principal Research Engineer and
Manager of the San Antonio Office for Georgia Tech Research Institute
(GTRI). Dr. Estes has over 30 years experience in operating and maintaining
large, industrial plants. He has directed planning, programming, and
construction of facilities worldwide to include Kuwait, England, Japan,
and South Korea. Within the United States, his experience covers large
Department of Defense (DOD) Installations and Department of Energy
Plants. Other responsibilities have included Master Planning, Comprehensive
Planning, Environmental Compliance, Air Installation Compatible Use
Zone, New Mission Bed-down, Landscaping, Privatization, and Contingency
Operations. He has an extensive background in force protection to
include analysis, evaluation and construction. Dr. Estes also developed
the Plant Replacement Value model to allow DOD planners to properly
budget for operations and maintenance requirements for facilities.
He leads the program development for all GTRI-based programs at Brooks
City-Base in San Antonio and represents GTRI to all potential sponsors
within the DOD.
Don Landry is a Senior Research Engineer and LEED™ Accredited
Professional with Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) assigned
to the Brooks Energy and Sustainability Laboratory (BESL) and the
collaboration of GTRI and the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment
Station (TEES) in San Antonio, Texas. He joined GTRI after 11 years
managing operations and maintenance of more than 50 major infrastructure
facilities and utility distribution systems at the Department of Energy’s
former nuclear weapons production facility at the Rocky Flats Environmental
Technology Site in Golden, Colorado. This included construction management
and project management of facility maintenance, replacements, upgrades,
and demolitions in support of environmental remediation activities,
while directing operations and maintenance for domestic water treatment
and distribution, sewage collection and treatment, high voltage electrical
distribution, natural gas distribution, high purity nitrogen production
and distribution, and high pressure steam production and distribution
at the site. Don is an expert in corrective action development and
root cause analysis and is certified by the Department of Energy as
an Accident/Incident Investigator. Other responsibilities have included
logistics, security, safety, procedure development, training, and
budget development in both the private and public sectors, in the
US and overseas in Germany and Saudi Arabia.
Alison Young is a Research Associate and LEED™
Accredited Professional with Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI)
assigned to the Brooks Energy and Sustainability Laboratory (BESL)
and the collaboration of GTRI and the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment
Station (TEES) in San Antonio, Texas. Her expertise is in sustainable
resource management. Ms. Young has been successful in developing a
resource and technical assistance center at the BESL. In doing so,
she maintains constant contact with manufacturers and vendors of state
of the art sustainable technologies and products relevant to the green
building market. This expertise has enabled her to provide assistance
to the creation of the Department of Defense (DOD) Land Use Strategy
and of an Online Knowledge Base for Sustainable Military Facilities
and Infrastructure. She has experience in training resource development
and can conduct training on the LEED™ process. Her current work
focus is on developing a series of checklists and other assessment
tools to aid in the evaluation economically feasible decisions for
increasing the sustainability of facilities.
Dr.
Jorge Vanegas is the Fred and Teresa Estrada Young Professor in Georgia
Tech's College of Engineering. In this capacity, he is responsible
for developing a focused, multidisciplinary, and self-sustaining institutional
infrastructure for sustainable affordable housing education, research,
and outreach for the U.S. and the Americas. Dr. Vanegas is the Group
Leader of the Construction Engineering and Management program of the
School of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech. His primary
areas of research, interests, and publications include: (1) advanced
strategies and technologies for sustainable land development, planning,
design, and construction of sustainable facilities and civil infrastructure
systems, with an emphasis on sustainable, affordable housing; (2)
design/construction integration and the development and rehabilitation
of facilities and civil infrastructure systems; (3) advanced strategies,
tools, and methods for effective management of capital projects; (4)
constructability programs and advanced technologies for modularization
and pre-assembly; and (5) undergraduate, graduate, and professional
continuing education curricula development. Dr. Vanegas also holds
a joint appointment with the College of Architecture at Georgia Tech,
where he serves as the co-director of Tech's Construction Resources
Center.