Dr Greg Foliente: improving whole-of-life building performance

Dr Greg Foliente is developing technologies, models and tools to improve whole-of-life building performance and reduce our ecological footprint in urban environments.

• 18 September 2008 | Updated 14 October 2011

Overview

• Current activities
• Background
• Academic qualifications
• Achievements

Current activities

Dr Greg Foliente is a world-leading expert in high performance buildings and infrastructure, taking a performance approach to architecture, engineering and construction. 

He coordinates an international working commission (CIB W60) on this topic, and is Program Director for the Performance Based Building (PeBBu) network in Australian and APEC countries.

Dr Foliente's team collaborates with industry and government on techniques and tools for managing built facilities and related infrastructure.

Background

Dr Foliente held visiting appointments with the Engineering Systems Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, on three occasions between 1997 and 2001.

He has also held visiting appointments with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Department of Architecture, at the University of Melbourne, Australia (between 1995 and 2000), and with the Building Research Institute at the Ministry of Construction, Tsukuba, Japan (1997).

Dr Foliente joined CSIRO in 1995 as a Senior Research Scientist, and is now a Senior Principal Research Scientist.

He was conference co-chair of the 2008 World Sustainable Building Conference (SB08), held in Melbourne, 2008.

Academic qualifications

Dr Foliente's formal qualifications include a:

• Bachelor of Science (Civil Engineering), Mapua Institute of Technology, Philippines, 1984
• Master of Science (Wood Mechanics), Virginia Tech, USA, 1989
• Master of Science (Structural Engineering), Virginia Tech, USA, 1993
• Doctorate of Philosophy, Virginia Tech, USA, 1993

Achievements

In 1990, Dr Foliente was Founding Secretary of the World Conference on Timber Engineering (WCTE) coordinating council.

His professional achievements include:

• Wood Engineering Achievement Award, American Wood Council & Forest Products Society, 2006
• James Croes Medal (American Society of Civil Engineers), 2003
• Best Paper Award in an international conference (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), 2003
• L.J. Markwardt Wood Engineering Award, Forest Products Society, 1998
• STA Research Fellowship Award, the Japan Science and Technology Agency (STA), 1997
• George Marra Award of Excellence, Society of Wood Science and Technology, 1997
• Wood Award, Forest Products Society, 1994
• A.B. Massey Award, Virginia Tech, 1993
• The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, USA, 1989
• Engineering Scholarship: Coconut Producers Federation of the Philippines, 1980-1984.

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