DOE's Dru Crawley Moves to Bentley

Drury Crawley, Ph.D., FASHRAE, AIA, longtime head of the commercial buildings research programs at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), is now in a newly created position at Bentley Systems as director of building energy performance products. While at DOE, Crawley championed the creation of EnergyPlus, a simulation program to replace the venerable DOE-2 engine that underlies the popular eQuest and other energy modeling programs. Crawley is now in charge of developing and promoting the use of energy modeling software that Bentley previously acquired, some of which is tied to EnergyPlus. In commenting about his decision to join Bentley, Crawley cited his passion for “user-focused building performance tools” that are compatible with building information modeling (BIM) software from any vendor: “Working at Bentley Systems is a great opportunity at the right time in the building performance field,” he said. Details on the software are available at www.bentley.com/green.