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.