GBA Recognized as Silver-Level Bicycle Friendly Business

Grumman|Butkus Associates has once again earned recognition as a Silver-level Bicycle Friendly Business from the League of American Bicyclists. Bicycle Friendly Businesses include local businesses, government agencies, and Fortune 500 companies across the United...

Electrification, Modeling Depth, and the Expanding Life Cycle of Engineering Responsibility

By: Douglas Frey, PE, LEED AP, Vice President Increasingly, engineers and their clients are discussing electrification mandates, performance-based energy codes, and AI-enabled modeling tools. Individually, none of these factors are new. What is new is how they are...

GBA Promotes 10 Employees

GBA's Chicago, Milwaukee and New York regional offices promoted 10 staff members at the recent semi-annual meeting: Fiona Martin McCarthy, PE, QCxP, BEAP, LEED AP, and Luis Contreras, CEM, BCxP, CEA, LEED AP, were promoted to Associate Vice President. Alex Schultz,...

Untangling the Wires: Building Automation System IP vs. MS/TP Network Topologies Explained

By: Douglas Frey, PE, LEED AP, Vice President In the world of building automation systems (BAS), the network topology you choose can make or break your system’s performance, scalability, and ease of maintenance. Whether you're working with legacy systems or designing...

Before You Design That BAS: Questions Engineers Should Ask Building Owners and IT Teams

By: Douglas Frey, PE, LEED AP, Vice President Let’s be honest: Designing a building automation system (BAS) today isn’t just about controlling HVAC and lighting. It’s about navigating firewalls, VLANs, cybersecurity frameworks, and cloud policies. If you’re an...

What’s Behind Your Fault Detection and Diagnostics Platform?

By: John Villani, PE, CCP, CEM, LEED AP, Vice President The Rise of AI in Commissioning After recently attending two great conferences, NexusCon and the Building Commissioning Association Annual Conference, I can attest that any session with AI in the title was...

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