David Cohen, P.E., CCP, DCEP, is among the Building Commissioning Association's inaugural class of 20 Under 40 Award recipients. The BCxA created the program "to highlight and honor the next generation of building professionals." Applicants were evaluated on...
Consumers Energy Retro-Commissioniong Facility IQ Program Beginning 2009, Consumers Energy (CE) in Michigan created a pilot program to help customers save energy and dollars in their existing buildings. The pilot program was used to determine the feasibility and cost...
G/BA's Chicago and Milwaukee regional offices promoted three staff members in July.Christopher Sbarbaro, P.E., CPD, GPD, LEED AP BD+C, was promoted to Project Manager.Nathaniel Powers, P.E., was promoted to Project Manager. Samuel Schmidt, E.I.T, was promoted to...
Grumman/Butkus Associates' engineering team recently played a pivotal role in a once-in-a-lifetime project: Turning the shuttered Westlake Hospital in Melrose Park, IL, into a 430-bed COVID-19 surge response facility in less than a month. "It was a job we'll be...
Grumman/Butkus continues documenting its efforts to "walk the walk" of sustainability with the release of its annual Sustainability Report.In 2013, the firm released its first annual corporate sustainability report. We recently completed the seventh edition, detailing...
G/BA Project Manager Fiona Martin McCarthy, PE, QCxP, BEAP, LEED AP O+M, has been named by Consulting-Specifying Engineer magazine as a recipient of its 2020 40 Under 40 Award. The award is given annually to 40 nonresidential building industry professionals ages 40...
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...
G/BA's renovation of a materials science lab building at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been honored with the ASHRAE Technology Award.The firm's project at the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory received First Place in the Educational...
G/BA Illinois Chairman, Daniel L. Doyle, P.E., LEED AP O+M, was named a Fellow of ASHRAE at the association's recent 2020 Winter Conference in Orlando.The Fellow grade of membership recognizes exceptional contributions in the art of engineering. Dan Doyle has been...