Bruce King Email & Phone Number

Bruce King has been a leading voice in climate-friendly building for 30 years as the author of five books on green construction, as well as building codes, standards, research papers, and articles. Bruce is a frequent speaker at conferences and has been a practicing structural engineer for over 40 years. He is also Founder and Director of the Ecological Building Network (EBNet), a non-profit information resource (www.ecobuildnetwork.org) with this history:1998 Publication of Buildings of Earth and Straw, the first engineering guide for straw bale and rammed earth buildings; 2001 First International Conference on Climate-Friendly Building Materials, predecessor of the BuildWell conferences;2003 With funding from the State of California, EBNet conducts testing of straw bale wall systems evaluating structural, seismic, fire, moisture, and acoustical properties;2005 Publication of Making Better Concrete, a guide to using industrial waste materials to reduce the carbon footprint of concrete;2006 Publication of Design of Straw Bale Buildings, a comprehensive engineering design guide for straw bale structures based on the preceding test program;2009 EBNet expands the international Earthen Building Standard, ASTM E2392, providing safe building guidance to the poorest billion or so people around the world; 2010 The first International BuildWell Conference on Climate-Friendly Building Materials;2011 EBNet in Haiti Our proposal for rebuilding after the 2010 earthquake is a finalist in the Clinton Foundation's "Building Better Haiti" competition;2013 The second International BuildWell Conference;2014 Launch of the BuildWell Source, an online, user-sourced library of resources climate-friendly building technologies;2016 The third International BuildWell Conference in San Francisco;2016 Publication of The New Carbon Architecture, proffering a vision of a global built environment that absorbs more carbon than it ever emits;2019 Bruce King instigates and writes the world's first climate-friendly building code, the Marin County Low-Carbon Concrete Code, garnering for Bruce a Newsmaker of the Year award from Engineering News-Record;2022 Publication of Build Beyond Zero, in which Bruce King and Chris Magwood build on the concepts and material from The New Carbon Architecture;2022 Launch of ARPA-E's HESTIA grant program awarding $40M to carbon-storing building technologies, inspired (according to its Director) by The New Carbon Architecture.2023 Launch of BuildWell Media to make climate-friendly building inviting, easy, and practical.

Listed skills include Green Building, Sustainable Energy, Sustainability, Sustainable Design, and 45 others.

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  University Of Colorado Boulder

  Architectural Engineering With Honors