PHRC Events
Sarah Klinetob Lowe Named Housing Systems Specialist
Date: 7/1/2017
After a thorough review
process, we are very pleased that Sarah Klinetob Lowe has been named our new
Housing Systems Specialist, effective July 1, 2017. Over the past three
years, Sarah has been PHRC’s Budgets and Publications Coordinator. However,
given her technical expertise briefly explained below, we are very pleased she
decided to take on more technical responsibilities. Sarah comes with ten years of
broad work and research experiences within the residential construction
industry, with technical focuses in residential energy retrofits and solar
photovoltaic systems. After graduating with a B.S. in Engineering Science and a
B.S. in German in 2007 from Penn State, and an M.S. in Architectural
Engineering in 2009 from Penn State, Sarah worked as an Energy Engineer
conducting energy audits, writing energy management plans, and completing construction
administration for multifamily and attached housing complexes across the state.
She also completed one year of a Masters of Architecture program at Penn State
where she conducted research on residential solar photovoltaic system design
and energy monitoring and feedback protocols for affordable housing. She also
was the primary program developer and educator for the Renewable Energies for
Central America (RECA) program that engaged Penn State students to spend their
spring break installing solar photovoltaic systems on community facilities in
Roatán, Honduras. In her current role at the PHRC she helps advise the DOE Race
to Zero competition team and is the Conference Secretariat for the Residential
Building Design & Construction Conference. She is currently serving
an appointed three-year term on the Property Maintenance Board of the Centre
Region Building and Housing Code Board of Appeals, following an elected
four-year volunteer term on the State College Borough Council where she served
on the Public Safety and Public Services & Environmental Committees for the
State College Metropolitan area. Please join PHRC in welcoming
Sarah to her new role as the PHRC Housing Systems Specialist!
