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I2SL Honors Dan Doyle and Recognizes Two GBA Projects
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...
New Advocate Illinois Masonic Facility Receives Honor
The Chicago Building Congress, a professional organization for those involved in creating the built environment, has presented a new GBA-designed facility at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center with its 2022 Merit Award in the Healthcare category. The Physical...
Ten Years of Data Center Fan Energy: 2021 vs. 2011
By Laurence Steiner, PE, LEED APThanks to efforts by the industry, a lot of progress has been made in improving energy efficiency in data centers. Completing a project last year, I was struck by the impact of the changes being made through improved HVAC design and...
GBA Promotes Four Engineers
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 Honors Two GBA Projects
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....
Design-Build Retro-Commissioning Pays Dividends for Healthcare Client
Design-build retro-commissioning (DBRCx) is a new approach Grumman|Butkus Associates (GBA) has developed to assist a large for-profit healthcare organization in implementing a retro-commissioning (RCx) program across multiple hospitals nationwide. The process is...