Eileen Westervelt is not thinking small.  Working with the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, she has embarked on an effort to promote and increase energy-saving behaviors across the entirety of the U.S. Army.

To this effort she brings over 25 years of experience in the energy field.   A seasoned, professional engineer, she is passionate about making facility energy savings real and persistent, and engages the people-aspect of energy systems to ensure lasting results. Her observations on the human side of facilities energy management have been featured in classes and conferences for the Building Commissioning Association; the Behavior, Energy and Climate Change Conference, a brand new chapter on behavior change in the, Guide to Energy Management, which is something of a sacred text in the energy management field.

Today we’ll find out how the Army’s culture can create hurdles to adopting conservation behaviors as well as provide some surprising opportunities.  Along the way we’ll find out what the Army’s utility bill is (you know you want to know this) and even learn how energy management can save lives in the field.

Eileen presently works as a senior research mechanical engineer for the Army Corps of Engineers at the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL), in Champaign, IL.