Zachary Berzolla
Zach Berzolla is a fourth-year PhD Candidate in Building Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. He uses urban building energy modeling via UBEM.io, a tool he co-developed, to help communities around the world meet their emissions reduction goals in the built environment. Through these collaborative efforts, communities define and test technology pathways that include differing levels of building retrofits, heat electrification, and renewables. His current focus is how to equitably advance the adoption of building retrofits to attain ambitious but necessary emissions reduction goals.