Heather Burpee
Heather Burpee
Research Associate Professor, Integrated Design Lab
Heather Burpee, Research Associate Professor 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. Her research addresses both qualitative and quantitative aspects of buildings including tracking health impacts and synergies between environmental quality, natural systems, sensory environments, and energy efficiency. She has led several efforts to create protocols for performance-based tracking and auditing for hospitals, higher education, and commercial buildings. She regularly applies these roadmaps in practice, consulting with leading design teams nationally that are charged with implementing high-performance buildings.
As the Director of Education and Outreach at the UW IDL, she leads a tour program at the Bullitt Center “The World’s Greenest Building,” and develops curriculum and implementation of other educational opportunities related to high-performance buildings to multi-faceted audiences. Heather is a Pacific Northwest native and received her Master of Architecture degree from the University of Washington College of Built Environments and her undergraduate degree in biology from Whitman College.
Publications
2018
Dannenberg, Andrew L.; Burpee, Heather. (2018). Architecture For Health Is Not Just For Healthcare Architects. Health Environments Research & Design Journal (herd) (sage Publications, Ltd.), 11(2), 8 - 12. View Publication
2014
Burpee, Heather; Mcdade, Erin. (2014). Comparative Analysis Of Hospital Energy Use: Pacific Northwest And Scandinavia. Health Environments Research & Design Journal (herd) (vendome Group Llc), 8(1), 20 - 44. View Publication
2013
Van Den Wymelenberg, Kevin; Brown, G. Z.; Burpee, Heather; Djunaedy, Ery; Gladics, Gunnar; Kline, Jeff; Loveland, Joel; Meek, Christopher; Thimmanna, Harshana. (2013). Evaluating Direct Energy Savings And Market Transformation Effects: A Decade Of Technical Design Assistance In The Northwestern Usa. Energy Policy, 52, 342 - 353. View Publication
