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Bentley Systems has announced the appointment of Dru Crawley, PhD, AIA, FASHRAE, to the newly created position of director, Building Energy Performance Products. Prior to joining Bentley, Dr Crawley was Commercial Buildings Team Lead at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
He is renowned throughout the 'green' building field for leading the development of the US DOE's EnergyPlus simulation engine, which identifies potential energy savings by modeling heating, cooling, ventilating, lighting, water, and other building energy flows.
Dr Crawley has more than 30 years of experience in government research and standards development organizations, and building design, energy consulting,
and engineering software companies. He is an expert in the energy efficiency, renewable energy, and sustainability of buildings. At Bentley, Dr Crawley will be
responsible for developing building energy and sustainability design simulation and analysis tools.
In addition, he will oversee the company's comprehensive suite of industry-leading energy performance products, including Hevacomp Simulator V8i, Hevacomp Mechanical Designer V8i, and Bentley Tas Simulator V8i.

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Dr Crawley reports to Santanu Das, Bentley vice president, Building, Structural, and Bridge.
"We are thrilled to welcome Dru to Bentley," said Das. "He is the ideal person to advance the state of the art in software used for the complex task of energy
simulation.
His ability to create robust products and capabilities that provide designers and engineers with highly accurate information for 'green' building design is unmatched. A globally recognized authority in the building energy analysis field, he has already made enormous contributions through his work at the DOE. In particular, his leadership in the development of the EnergyPlus engine has resulted in this technology becoming the standard of the industry."
Added Noah Eckhouse, Bentley vice president, Building Performance Group, "Dru’s insight and in-depth knowledge will now help create important new benefits for users of Bentley's proven Energy Performance Series as they design, construct, and operate better-performing, more sustainable buildings." Commenting on his new position, Dr Crawley said, "I look forward to working with my new colleagues at Bentley in taking the Energy Performance Series to greater levels of capability.

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