Professor Augenbroe received an MSc cum laude in Civil Engineering from TU Delft in the Netherlands in 1975. He has spent most of his academic career in Europe where he pioneered a commercial finite element toolbox for building simulation, and managed national and international projects on engineering interoperability and semantic building product models. In the mid eighties, he was one of the lead contractors of the government funded Building Information Modeling (BIM) effort in the Netherlands. In the nineties he led a consortium of academic researchers and industrial developers in the COMBINE effort (Computer Models for the Building Industry in Europe), a 70 man-year project spanning 1990-1995. This project delivered the first prototypes of the next generation of integrated engineering design systems with emphasis on building services engineering.

Augenbroe has been active in the pursuit of international collaboration, exemplified in prolonged working stays abroad at CSTB, France (1988), Lawrence Berkeley Lab, USA (1989), and at UNPHU, Dominican Republic (1996). More recently he has held visiting professorships at Loughborough University and Newcastle University in the UK. Since 1997 he heads the Building Technology track in the Doctoral Program in the College of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the USA.

Augenbroe teaches graduate courses and conducts research in the fields of building performance concepts and simulation, control of smart systems, e-Business, system monitoring and diagnostics. He has also established an active research record in construction project management, web hosted collaboration, and knowledge management, dealing with the development of software tools, their interoperability and their business integration. He is co-editor of two scientific journals and on the scientific board of five other international journals. He has published over 100 refereed papers and recently published a book dealing with advanced topic in building performance assessment. He has chaired three major conferences and delivered 6 keynote lectures at international conferences. He was the chair of the IBPSA BS2003 conference in August 2003, and (from 2002-2004) coordinator of the EU funded e-HUBs project (IST-2001-34031), carried out by a European consortium with affiliated partners in Latin America and the US. The project focused on the tactical decision making that prepares e-engineering partnerships which are becoming ever more vital for the effective globalization of the building industry.

Augenbroe has been developing building performance metrics for large institutional real estate portfolio mangers in Europe and more recently for the GSA in the US. This work has led to an operational toolbox that offers a broadening set of performance indicators that are relevant to building procurement and facility management.



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