Mariana Egea Casalduc supports the Building Upgrade Prize, a $50M program that awards cash prizes and technical assistance to community-driven building upgrade initiatives nationwide. She administers the delivery of technical assistance to 45 Phase 1 winning teams, designs and implements metric and data collection protocols, and analyzes participant feedback to identify technical and market challenges to decarbonization. Casalduc coordinates five national laboratory research teams through the Inter-Lab Market Readiness Program for Advancing Commercial Technologies, a rapid-response laboratory testing and field-based measurement and verification program focused on de-risking commercial building technologies. She ensures alignment with U.S. Department of Energy priorities and national laboratory processing capacity.

Healthy buildings

Consumer protections

Affordability

Heat pump deployment

Heat pump water heater deployment

Stakeholder engagement

Energy burden

Residential decarbonization

Multifamily decarbonization

Underserved commercial building decarbonization (K-12 schools, community colleges, healthcare facilities, non-profit/community centers, cooling centers, small businesses)

ORISE Science, Technology, and Policy Fellow, Building Technologies Office, U.S. Department of Energy (2020-2023)

Associate, Office of the CEO, RockCreek (2019-2020)

Student Sustainability Educator, American University Office of Sustainability (2018-2019)

Legislative Intern, U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy & Commerce (2018)

Government Relations Intern, The Wilderness Society (2018)

Global Warming Solutions Intern, Environment America (2018)