Brandon Byers

He was a presenter at the Holcim Foundation Sounding Board Zurich where he presented how upstream crowdsourcing of data from our built environment can enable reuse of building elements, and further result in better community resilience to build back quicker, cheaper, and better in both steady-state urban development and post-hazard reconstruction.

He is interested in exploring data storage and data modeling solutions of building components to create, store, and share necessary information for facilitating reuse. The “how” to make a material passport. This includes exploring tracking technologies, linked data, and graph data storage of buildings, and possible physical | digital | crypto connections for building assets.

Brandon completed his BS in Civil Engineering at Georgia Tech with high honors and a focus on structural engineering. From there, he worked for AECOM in the Washington DC Metro office as a structural engineer on dams and hydraulic structures. While at AECOM he also was a Project Engineer at Mosul Dam for eight months on the emergency grouting operations project. He then pursued his MS at Stanford University in Sustainable Design and Construction with a structures concentration. Here his research interests involved designing for wellbeing through observational studies and virtual reality as well as quantifying sustainability through Life Cycle Assessments and metrics such as embodied carbon.