Caroline Fluhrer: Consultant

Contact Information

Rocky Mountain Institute
Attn: Built Environment Team
1820 Folsom Street
Boulder, Colorado 80302

e-mail: BET@rmi.org
phone: 303-245-1003

Ms. Fluhrer is a Consultant with Rocky Mountain Institute and focuses on sustainable building, green certification, and energy design strategies for educational facilities, office, and industrial facilities as well as existing buildings. Ms. Fluhrer provides building energy modeling, life cycle cost analysis, workshop facilitation, and LEED documentation services for a variety of projects. Recently, she contributed to the development of an energy efficiency retrofit program for the Empire State Building. Currently, she is helping to develop RMI’s new 3‐5 year strategic plan, which includes the development of an initiative focused on existing commercial building retrofits. Research efforts focus on the business case for green building and green leasing strategies.

Professional Certifications and Affiliations

Engineer in Training Certificate, State of Colorado, 2008
LEED Accredited Professional
U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC)

Publications

• "The Energy Challenge: A New Agenda for Corporate Real Estate," 2007, CoreNet Global
• "High Performance Building: Perspectives & Practice," Video and Case Studies, 2008, Rocky Mountain Institute
• "Barriers and Breakthroughs for Multi‐Tenant Developments," C. Fluhrer, C. Carmichael, and E. Bonnett, Proceedings of the Solar 2008 Conference, American Solar Energy Society, 2008.

Education

Master of Science, Engineering, Stanford University, 2006
Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering, Stanford University, 2005