The newly released 2022 GBA Sustainability Report is now available at GBA's recently launched, redesigned website. In 2013, the firm released its first annual corporate sustainability report. We recently completed the ninth edition, detailing our current scope of...
Grumman|Butkus Associates marked its 50th year in business on May 2, 2023. The company was incorporated on May 2, 1973, as Enercon, Ltd.: a one-person energy consulting firm based in Evanston, IL. Initial commissions consisted mainly of energy management studies,...
GBA promoted 16 staff members in December, including staff in three of the firm’s four regional offices. Promoted to Associate were Matt Butkus, PE, QCxP, LEED AP; Jeff Cochran, PE, CPD; David Cohen, PE, CCP, DCEP; Alex Dodd, QCxP; Fiona Martin McCarthy, PE, QCxP,...
GBA Project Manager Jason McDonald, CPD, FASPE, ASSE 6060, has been elevated to the rank of Fellow by the American Society of Plumbing Engineers (ASPE). An integral member of the Illinois office's plumbing engineering team for more than 25 years, Jason is a leader in...
The International Institute for Sustainable Laboratories (I2SL) has honored GBA Illinois Chairman Dan Doyle with its inaugural Phil Wirdzek Leadership Award. Two GBA projects also received I2SL Sustainable Laboratory Awards for renovation projects at the University of...
GBA's Chicago regional office promoted four staff members in July.Ben Andes, PE, CCP, CBCP, was promoted to Project Manager.George Ioannou, PE, QCxP, was promoted to Project Manager.William J. Niemira, PE, was promoted to Senior Project Engineer.Michael Rubino was...
ASHRAE Region VI has honored two GBA projects with Technology Awards: an addition for Ronald McDonald House Charities Eastern WI, in Milwaukee, WI (First Place, Residential, Design) and a project combining retro- and monitoring-based commissioning for SSM Health St....
GBA Associate Jordan Martin, PE, has been honored with the Charles Steinmetz Award for Technical Merit by the Electrical Association of Chicagoland.The award is given annually to a consulting electrical engineer who has distinguished himself among his peers by...
Grumman|Butkus Associates has released the latest edition of its annual Hospital Energy and Water Benchmarking Survey, focusing on usage and costs for fossil fuels, electricity, and water/sewer.The survey also tracks hospitals' carbon footprint and energy costs per...