Jake Elbrecht

Visiting Assistant Research Professor

Jake Elbrecht

McWhorter School of Building Science

Bachelor of Science in Building Construction

201 M. Miller Gorrie Center


Master of Science in Architecture, Auburn University, 2020
Bachelor of Architecture, Auburn University, 2019

Jake Elbrecht is a Visiting Assistant Research Professor of Building Construction in the Auburn University McWhorter School of Building Science. His background includes mass timber design-build experience at Auburn University’s Rural Studio, developing a parametric tool to size mass timber elements during a Research Fellowship with EskewDumezRipple, and performing life cycle and cost analyses on conceptual steel-timber hybrid buildings with the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.

Interest areas in research and practice:
Mass Timber Construction
Low-Carbon Architecture
Sustainable Forestry Practices