Building Science Hall of Fame

Those who have had a profound and lasting effect on the field now known as Building Science either by invention, promotion, direction, education, or practice.

Vitruvius (the original scribe)
Marcus Vitruvius Pollione
+/- 75 BC – 10 BC, Roman Republic
Wrote the original building science book, De Architectura.
Many contributions to the building and design industry related to site planning, water distribution, enclosure assemblies, indoor comfort, indoor air quality, material durability, constructability, daylighting, and more.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitruvius

Fillipo Brunelleschi (multiple inventions)

Benjamin Franklin (lightning protection)

Benjamin Thompson (fireplace heating)

Alexander Cumming (flush toilet)

Joseph Aspdin (Portland Cement)

Angier Perkins (modern hydronic heating)

Richard Mollier (the OG psychrometric chart)

Augustine Sackett (wallboard)

Willis Carrier (modern air conditioning)

Gustav Handegord (wrote the book)

Neil Hutcheon (wrote the book)

Art Rosenfeld (directed the start of a lot of stuff that worked out)

Max Baker (wrote the other book)

Charles Haven (modern IG glazing inventor)

Rick Quierette

Madelene Rousseou

G.K. Garden (the original “how rain gets in” author)

Brian McGrorty

Don Onesko

Jim White

Joe Lstiburek (education and practice)

John Straube (education and research)

John Timusk (education and practice)

Mark Bomberg (education and practice)

Wayne Shick (the lo-cal house)

Philip Farey

Pat Huelman (high performance homes, +)

Gary Nelson (Minneapolis Blower Door and Duct Blaster)

Hartwig Künzel (the chemical engineer who developed WUFI)

David Nicastro (creator of The Durability Lab at UT-Austin)

Henry French (wrote the book on drainage)

Margaret Fels (Princeton, developed energy modeling techniques)

Robert Sokolow (Princeton, measured and published energy retrofit outcomes and challenges)

Henry Reynolds (invented asphalt shingles)