Eric Walker Email & Phone Number

Victoria Bc

www.YesHealthyHome.ca

Hong Kong

- Responsible for developing strategic partnerships across corporate, government and research sectors to catalyze business innovation, such as zero waste and SMART city networks.- Developed CityLeap, a community green growth program to integrate low carbon business incentives, local renewable energy supply, and intelligent buildings.- Policy analyst on European energy directives to improve the transparency and sharing of building performance data among states and regions.

- Set up engineering offices in China and Canada with responsibility for field operations, hiring, training and business development.- Field team leader on wind farm feasibility studies, turbine layouts, and environmental impacts.- Partnered with Haida First Nation on community clean energy planning through CIIF funding to promote use of local biomass and wind resources to offset diesel use.

- Applied renewable energy (solar-thermal HVAC and geo-exchange) to green buildings, including design drawings and site investigations.- Authored pre-feasibility & project design documents for clean energy proposals to the World Bank.- Green building standard steering committee member: Comprehensive Environmental Performance Assessment Scheme (CEPAS), for the Hong Kong Buildings Department, Building Innovation Unit.

- Training at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy, Germany.- Led the vision, design and successful USD 3 million capital fund raising for a green building technology centre linked to university research and public education.- Lead researcher on the gap analysis of Hong Kong’s sustainability, using comprehensive ecological footprinting of energy, food, water and materials. Published as Agenda 2047.- Engaged the power utility sector on adopting renewable energy targets, and led the first professional wind power feasibility studies resulting in the city’s first commercial wind turbine.- Managed the energy auditing of an off-grid community with detailed analysis of loads and economics.

M.Sc., Materials Science

B.Sc., Geology