Hey! I’m Alex.

I’m a researcher, traveler, and engineer.

Based out of New York, I’m a Senior Consultant with the Cities practice at Buro Happold, where my work is focused on developing techno-economic decision tools to support multi-scale decarbonization of the urban built environment. Prior to my work at Buro Happold, I got my PhD in the Urban Informatics Lab in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Stanford University where my research focused on ways to leverage urban data streams to improve building energy performance in our cities.

Things I’m currently working on:

• Supporting the natural gas to geothermal transition through the development of low-carbon heating and cooling networks across the US

• Delivering energy strategies and asset mapping covering power, heating, and cooling at multiple spatial scales – ranging from building to campus and city scales

• Exploring adaptive reuse opportunities for existing power system infrastructure through Buro Happold’s C:Lab program

• Designing a urban context-aware energy modeling tool to explore multi-scale retrofit opportunities for buildings and neighborhoods

• Improving my 2k erg time

• Crafting new ice cream recipes