Dr. Georg Reichard is Department Head and Professor of Building Construction and Associate Director of the Myers-Lawson School of Construction at Virginia Tech. He is also the Director of the Building Enclosure & Systems Technology Lab. Dr. Reichard’s research deals with experimental and numerical methods as well as the development of simulation and data models, in particular in the area of building sciences related to building envelopes and environmental systems. In his current research, he focuses on building performance, enclosure durability, disaster resilience, energy efficiency, and integrated decision-making for retrofit solutions in connection with different control strategies and building materials. Dr. Reichard holds a master’s degree and a doctoral degree in Civil Engineering from Graz University of Technology in Austria and is a licensed professional engineer (AE) in the Commonwealth of Virginia.