Larry Chang is director of the Building Efficiency for a Sustainable Tomorrow (BEST) Center, which is funded by the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technological Education program. BEST’s mission is to boost the technician workforce in high-performance building operations through education and professional certification. Since helping to establish BEST in 2012, Chang has worked with U.S. community and technical colleges to develop certificate and degree programs in environmental control technology, building automation and energy management. He is also part of a team creating a new technician-level certification which will standardize skills and knowledge for advanced commercial building operations.
In addition, Chang is a registered architect who earned his B.S.E. in architecture and engineering from Princeton University and his M.Arch. from Yale University. He has worked across the U.S. on both commercial and residential projects with a focus on sustainability, accessibility and healthy buildings. On the academic side, he has taught design at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Savannah College of Art & Design, and City College of San Francisco.