Ed Pollock grew up in the South Sudan, the son of Ted and Dolly
Pollock, Presbyterian missionaries in Africa. He is recently retired
from the U.S. Department of Energy where he was the Director of the
Department’s Building Energy Efficiency Research program.
Under Ed’s leadership the program focused on research that improved
building efficiency to the point that a building can produce as much
energy as it uses, while keeping the cost of the energy efficiency
improvements equal to or less than the cost of the energy saved. He
expanded DOE’s role in the Energy Star program, a joint DOE/EPA program,
to make America’s 110 million existing homes more efficient. To
increase the market penetration of energy efficiency strategies in the
residential market, Ed was instrumental in developing the Energy Smart
Home Scale, a “miles per gallon label” for homes, and the Builders
Challenge Program, a deployment and marketing campaign for high
performance homes.
Ed served as a short-term missionary with the Presbyterian Church in
Ethiopia in 1964 and 1965 where he designed and built clinics,
hospitals, schools and residences at five remote locations in southwest
Ethiopia.
Ed is a project team leader for SERVE and has a special interest in
providing effective training of short-term mission teams for churches
and SERVE’s mission agency partners.
Among Ed's earlier career activities: developed test procedures and
standards for the DOE Appliance Standards program (the information found
on appliance yellow energy guides); provided engineering support to
NASA for the space shuttle and space station systems; developed and
tested letter and parcel sorting equipment for US Postal Service and;
testing of Navy Fleet Ballistic Missile weapons systems.
In addition Ed is:
- Founder and president of a non-profit organization conducting energy audits and retrofits of churches.
- Founder, Board Member and Building Committee Chair of Montgomery, MD Habitat for Humanity.
- Along with his brothers and sisters Ed organizes and leads mission
study tours and construction teams that have built homes, schools and
churches in Africa, Asia and North and South America.
Special Recognition:
- Builder and Developer Magazine
- 2009 Who's Who in Homebuilding
- Affordable Comfort Inc.
- 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award
- Residential Energy Services Network
- 2012 Executive Director’s Award for outstanding contributions to RESNET
Education:
- BS Physics, 1964
- Westminster College
New Wilmington, PA - BS Civil Engineering, 1969
- Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD