Profile of Jillian Burgess
- Name
- Jillian Burgess
- Position
- Technical Director | Associate Principal
- Summary
As the Practice Area Leader for the Enclosure Group, Jill has contributed to the design and delivery of high-performance building enclosures for buildings around the world. Our clients benefit from the depth of her technical knowledge – especially in building performance modeling – as well as the breadth of her project experience in envelope thermal performance. Jill’s work has focused in particular on balancing da ylight and heat gain in glass facades, and on maintaining air and vapor control across various building-enclosure assembly types. A BEC Chapter Chair and NFRC voting member, Jill believes in the power of rigorous scientific analysis to drive outstanding building performance.
A building performance modeling specialist with more than a decade of experience in diverse countries and climates
EDUCATION
- Bachelor of Architecture, Syracuse University, United States
- Master of Science (Architecture), University of Pennsylvania, United States
AFFILIATIONS
- Registered Architect, Pennsylvania, USA
- Registered Architect, Ontario, Canada
- NFRC Certified Modeler
- LEED AP
- Chair, Philadelphia Building Enclosure Council
SPECIALTIES
- Building enclosures
- Enclosure commissioning (BECx)
- Building performance modeling
- CFD modeling
- Daylight/glare optimization
- Detailed thermal analysis
- Holistic life-cycle analysis
- Schematic massing analysis
- Shading strategies
- Solar insolation & radiation studies
- Sustainability