People

Megan Badri, Ph.D. , MArch, LEED GA, Co-Founder and Director

Megan Badri, Ph.D., specializes in building Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and energy simulation. In addition to her role at BAS Carbon, Negar has worked with the building industry and applied research institutions as an architectural designer, sustainability performance analyst, and scholar. In her roles, she has operated and coordinated building initiatives with a focus on high-performance, low-carbon, and sustainable built environment, green building certifications, embodied carbon benchmarking, and energy and environmental performance modeling.

Negar holds a master’s degree in Energy Efficiency and Architectural Engineering from the University of Tehran, and she is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Environmental Design at the University of Calgary.

Rahman Azari, Ph.D. , CPHC, Co-Founder

Rahman Azari is an architect and a professor of architecture with more than 15 years of experience in sustainable architecture design, building performance modeling, environmental life cycle assessment, and energy harvesting through building skins. Azari’s award-winning work has been funded by private and public agencies.

Email: rahman.azari @bascarbon

James Salazar, Partner

James Salazar is a widely regarded expert in the field life cycle assessment. In addition to his role with BAS Carbon, James is also the Director of EPD services with the Athena Institute and Principal of Coldstream Consulting. James has developed LCAs and EPDs for a range of building products and is a methodology advisor for Athena’s Impact Estimator for Buildings software. Mr. Salazar has also developed LCA-based calculators for concrete products and material-specific issues such as biogenic carbon.

James serves on the United States ISO technical committee (TC207) tasked with developing international standards on LCA practice. Mr. Salazar holds a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Tech and a master’s degree in Forestry from the University of British Columbia.