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- Founder,
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Steve Petersen was
born and raised in Oakland, California.
He is a graduate (B.S, Economics) of U.C.
Berkeley and received a Masters degree in
Economics from UCLA. He served four years
in the US Air Force in the 1960’s
as a Russian interpreter, the last year
of which brought him to the Washington D.C.
area, where he still resides today.
Most of his civilian
career was spent as an energy conservation
economist at the National
Institute of Standards and Technology
(formerly known as the National Bureau of
Standards), from where he retired in 1996.
At NIST he was an internationally-known
researcher in the field of energy conservation
in buildings, writing and lecturing extensively
on engineering economics and the economics
of energy conservation, and wrote numerous
software programs for the evaluation of
energy-related investments in buildings.
For the past 20 years
his Building
Life Cycle Cost (BLCC) software has
been the federal government’s standard
program for performing life cycle cost analysis
of energy-related investments in federal
buildings and is still in use around the
world.
He was awarded the Department
of Commerce Silver Medal for his work on
the economics of energy conservation in
buildings and was named as a Presidential
Exchange Executive by the White House Commission
on Executive Exchange, serving for one year
as a special assistant to the vice president
of engineering at Carrier Corporation in
Syracuse, NY.
For more than 10 years
before retiring from NIST he worked part
time developing dietary exposure programs
for license to Technical Assessment Systems.
Upon retiring from
NIST he founded Durango Software LLC with
the goal of developing the most useful exposure
software available to risk assessors
anywhere in the world. He married his wife,
Barbara
Petersen (founder of Novigen Sciences,
Inc., now Director of the Foods
and Chemicals Practice of Exponent, Inc.)
in 1970 and they have two grown sons.
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