Steve Kemp

Background

About Steve Kemp

I am a Principal, Senior Energy and Sustainability Specialist and the Practice Area Lead at RDH Building Science. I oversee the development of RDH's low energy building design services, building energy research and our team development in Toronto. For clients I help them identify and execute design solutions across all building typologies, incorporating renewable energy, passive design design principles and appropriate actives systems to achieve Passive House, Net Zero Energy and other goals to reduce that reduce our buildings impact on our environmental.Prior to RDH Steve lead Groups Buildings-Sustainable division, the firm's world-renowned green building, energy modeling and building performance monitoring group. With unsurpassed experience in building energy modeling (particularly for green buildings), Steve guides design teams through the process of choosing financially-appropriate, high-return energy-efficiency strategies. During and after construction, Steve's team works with owners to install metering systems to monitor energy use and find opportunities for improvements.Specialties: high performance and Net Zero building design, green building design, energy modeling, integrated design process, sustainability workshops