Building Performance Standards (BPS): A Technical Resource Guide

Glenn Friedman, PE, FASHRAE, participated in the ASHRAE Working Group to write the newly released Building Performance Standards (BPS): A Technical Resource Guide, which was created to provide a technical basis for policymakers, building owners, practitioners, and other stakeholders interested in developing and implementing a BPS policy.

We are pleased to highlight multiple upcoming presentations and seminars at the ASHRAE Winter Conference in Las Vegas: click for more information.

During his five years at Taylor Engineering, Reece has leveraged his experience as a former building automation systems contractor to design and commission projects for mission critical facilities, central plants, museums and large office buildings. Reece has shown his expertise in specifying building automation systems and developing sequences of operation on projects and through his work as a key contributor to ASHRAE Guideline 36.

Curtis has accumulated a wealth of experience during his 4 years at Taylor Engineers working on a breadth of challenging projects ranging from large commercial design and commissioning projects to small targeted retrofits. He enjoys finding the most efficient solutions to complex problems in buildings with many novel design constraints and ultimately communicating those solutions to owners and operators in an effective manner to maintain high energy performance long after turnover.

Joe has continued to be a devoted member of Taylor Engineers. He’s applied his technical expertise to design a wide range of HVAC systems, from central plants to laboratories and a temple.

Brandon Gill, PE has written a new article on large all-electric commercial plant design, which is featured in the October issue of the ASHRAE Journal: Solving the Large Building All-Electric Heating Problem

Having specialized in HVAC engineering for educational facilities at her previous firm, Laura Van Rietema was a natural fit to join our Taylor team. Her experience in energy analysis, HVAC system selection, design and analysis as well as plumbing design and field review are integral to the work of our firm.

Amrit Singh’s expertise in low-water, net-zero water, and all-electric projects adds new strength to our team. Amrit also brings with him extensive fire protection design experience.

Olivia has experience in diverse project engineering roles, including energy analysis, existing systems analysis, HVAC design, plumbing design, and technical reporting.

Prior to Taylor Engineering, she specialized in data-driven approaches to identify energy efficiency opportunities in commercial buildings. Mashail has also been involved in evaluation, measurement, and verification for utility-sponsored energy efficiency projects in the commercial, industrial, and agricultural sectors.

Mr. Williams enjoys developing solutions to meet owner project goals, including balancing first-costs, life-cycle cost, comfort, acoustics, reliability, operations, maintenance, and environmentally-sustainable design.

Taylor Engineers has developed a new all electric HVAC design concept for large commercial and mixed-use buildings (e.g. ≥150,000 ft2) that addresses key shortcomings with existing all electric options related to energy efficiency, costs, and spatial requirements.

Joe has gained experience in the building design industry working on a broad range of projects including large commercial HVAC design and commissioning to small-scale owner directed mechanical system investigations.

In his two years at Taylor Engineering, Mr. Fong has completed design and commissioning projects for high-rise commercial office buildings, laboratories, mission-critical data centers, academic buildings, natatoriums, and parking garages.

Brandon joined Taylor Engineering in 2014 as a mechanical engineer with a five year background in HVAC systems analysis and measurement and verification. Since joining Taylor, Brandon has shifted gears and focused primarily on HVAC system design and commissioning. During his time at Taylor, Brandon has developed expertise in hydronic system design; data center design and control; and sequences of operation development.