Elizabeth Grant is the Building & Roofing Science Research Lead at GAF. She supports GAF’s efforts within the commercial roofing community through engagement with architects and specifiers, providing technical advice and research-based guidance. Before joining GAF, she was an associate professor with Virginia Tech’s School of Architecture + Design, where she wrote Integrating Building Performance with Design: An Architecture Student’s Guidebook and papers in Buildings & Cities, Architectural Science Review, the Journal of Green Building, the Journal of Architectural Engineering, 2A: Architecture and Art, Revista AUS, Interface, and Professional Roofing. Grant has presented at conferences held by ACSA, AEI, AIA, and many more institutes and organizations. Her architectural experience includes designing health-care, civic, and educational buildings, and her work focuses on the building enclosure and finding sustainable solutions to pressing architectural and environmental problems.