Advisory Board Members 2007-2008

Advisory board members provide guidance on "must have" conference topics, speakers, and share advice to help the Ecobuild and AEC-ST conferences remain pertinent, unbiased, and cutting-edge. This collaborative team assists in keeping conference content moving in the right direction while continually increasing the quality. The 2007-2008 Ecobuild/AEC-ST Advisory Board includes the following members:

Paul R. Bertram, Jr. FCSI, CDT, LEED® AP
Director, Environment and Sustainability
North American Insulation Manufacturers Association, (NAIMA)
Alexandria, VA 

Dianne Davis
President
AEC Infosystems, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
Dianne Davis, President of AEC Infosystems is a recognized leader in Building Information Modeling Implementation and process advancement. For 18 years her company, AEC Infosystems has provided guidance and leadership to government organizations and companies implementing this significant process change.
She is currently Chair of the National BIM Standards Scoping Committee, a consultant to the US Coast Guard on their Shore Facility Capital Asset Management (Roadmap), a member of the McGraw-Hill Interoperability Council, and a participant in the Open Geospatial Consortium test bed on CAD/BIM/GIS integration.

Alan Edgar, Assoc. AIA
President - FacilityGenetics, L.L.C.
OSCRE Workgroup Program Manager
Chair, National BIM Standard Executive Committee
Yorktown, IN

Andy Fuhrman
Chief Executive Officer
Open Standards Consortium for Real Estate (OSCRE)
Santa Cruz, CA
Andy Fuhrman has served since June 2004 as Chief Executive Officer for the OSCRE, and is responsible for the organizations strategic, operational and tactical level success. Andy's background includes over 20 years of commercial construction experience for many of the leading firms in the high-tech sector within the Silicon Valley followed by 14 years providing consulting and related services in business process improvement and technology systems implementations for Construction, Corporate Real Estate and Facilities Management operations. As a technology consultant and certified building inspector with the International Conference of Building Officials (ICBO), Andy was a key contributor in Silicon Valley's Smart Permitting initiative, designed to streamline building permit approval process via electronic submittals, plan check and approval, to eliminate one of the key bottlenecks affecting the high-tech industries time to market delivery of short lifecycle products.
Andy also is an Executive Board member for both the National Building Information Model Standard (NBIMS) and the Virtual Builders Roundtable.

Dennis J. Hall, FAIA, FCSI, CCS, SCIP
President, Specifications Consultants in Independent Practice
Managing Principal
Hall Architects, Inc.
Charlotte NC
Mr. Hall is founder and managing principal of Hall Architects, Inc. in Charlotte, North Carolina.  He is an award winning architect and construction specifier, with numerous design and specification awards to his credit. His many awards include numerous state and local design awards, five national specification competition awards including three Honor Awards, and the Young Architects Award from the South Atlantic Region of the American Institute of Architects. In 2005 he was the recipient of the prestigious “Institute Honor Award” from the National Institute of Building Sciences, which “recognizes individuals or organizations that have made exceptional contributions to the nation and the building community.” He was also recognized by Engineering News Record as one of the top 25 construction newsmakers of 2005.

Mr. Hall is actively involved in the design and construction industry and the AIA, CSI, and other allied organizations regularly ask for his expertise, and he maintains an active speaking schedule. He has written dozens of articles concerning construction document standards and the project delivery process and is often quoted as an expert on this subject in the architectural and news media including AIArchitect, Architecture, Architectural Record, The Construction Specifier, and The Wall Street Journal.  His professional writing includes coauthor of The Architect’s Guide to the US National CAD Standard; contributor and senior executive editor for Architectural Graphics Standards, 11th edition; contributor to the Architect’s Handbook of Professional Practice, 14th edition; and contributor to the Uniform Drawing System. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Architectural Graphic Standards for Residential Construction that will be published in 2010.

Mr. Hall currently serves as National President of the Specification Consultants in Independent Practice, member of the NIBS National CAD Standards Committee, the OmniClass Construction Classification System Development, UniFormat Task Teak, AIA MASTERSPEC Review Committee, and the NIBS/SCIP/CSI BIM Committee. He is the former chair of the CSI/CSC MasterFormat Expansion Task Team, and the CSI Uniform Drawing System Task Team, as well as a former Institute Vice President of the Construction Specifications Institute. 

David A. Jordani, FAIA
Chair, NIBS Facilities Information Council (FIC)
Chair, NBIMS Business Process Integration Task Team (BPITT)
President, Jordani Consulting Group
Minneapolis, MN
Dave Jordani is the President of the Jordani Consulting Group (JCG), a highly regarded independent consulting practice providing business process and IT consulting to building owners, property managers and the design and construction communities. He is a contributing author for the Facility Design and Management Handbook published by McGraw Hill. He was appointed to the NAVFAC Facilities CAD2 Blue Ribbon Implementation Advisory Board. He helped form and co-chairs the Facilities Information Council under the auspices of the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS). He chaired the American Institute of Architects (AIA) National Committee on Computers and has served as a member of the Executive Board for the Minneapolis Chapter, AIA. Mr. Jordani is a frequent speaker and author on topics related to use of computers in the facilities management, design and construction industry.

His FM client list includes organizations such as General Motors, Abbott Labs, American Express, the University of Minnesota and numerous other private and public clients.

Mr. Jordani is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and holds both a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Master of Architecture degree from the University of Illinois.

Mark Kalin, FAIA, FCSI, LEED® AP
President
Kalin Associates
Specifications Consultants
Newton, MA
Mr. Kalin is President of Kalin Associates, an independent specification consulting firm in the Boston area. Kalin Associates has prepared specifications for over 35 projects seeking LEED certification, 8 of which are currently certified. Mark is a registered architect, CSI certified construction specifier, and has been elected to fellowship in both the AIA and CSI. Mr. Kalin is a past-president of Specification Consultants in Independent Practice (SCIP) and CSI Boston. He has been Chairman of the AIA Masterspec Review Committee, the AIA Specifications and Building Technology PIA, and the AIA Library and Archives Committee. He is the author of Kalin Associates' Master Short-Form Specifications, now in its eighth edition 2005.

Grahame E. Maisey, PE
Chief Engineer
Building Services Consultants, Inc.
Wyncote, PA
Grahame E. Maisey, P.E., LEED® AP is chief engineer for Building Services Consultants, Inc.

He has 40 years experience in environmental control engineering in design, construction and commissioning, practicing in Europe and the USA. Grahame trained in the UK and was one of the first to receive a degree in environmental control engineering from the University of Strathclyde, Scotland.

With academic and design training combined with extensive site experience, he has an understanding and grasp of building energy systems that very few engineers can match. He is considered by many to be the expert in the area of building HVAC systems and commissioning.

Grahame was fortunate to work with the premier commissioning engineers and A/E firms in England in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Working with these companies resulted in an indelible project performance experience. He worked for the first A/E firm to work in design charrettes, which honed his collaboration and whole building integration skills.

He was brought to the United States in the late 1970’s to conduct instrumented energy conservation studies on over 100 hospitals in the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest. Knowledge gained of how HVAC and energy systems actually perform is invaluable in accurately assessing long-term performance of energy systems. He has since worked on energy studies and design for many different and varied facilities. In 1993, he was asked to dovetail an energy study into a facility master plan on a project, creating our first energy master plan and changing the way we worked from then on.

Grahame has been on ASHRAE technical committees for commissioning, operating and maintenance, and owning and operating costs. He is member of ASHRAE, USGBC, NESEA, SBIC, CIBSE. He has written technical articles on Total Quality Commissioning and Whole Building Dynamic Integration for the Whole Building Design Guide (www.wbdg.org). Grahame has lectured on High Performance, Sustainable HVAC Systems and High Performance HVAC Systems for Optimum IEQ (LEED™).

Tom Meyer
Executive Director
Green Mechanical Council
Neenah, WI
Biography:

• Graduate - The Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio.
• Executive Director – Green Mechanical Council an international non-profit organization focused on energy efficient structural mechanical systems.
• 20 years experience in residential, commercial, institutional and industrial hydronics.
• Principal - Precision Hydronics Corporation, a global hydronics design, consulting and training firm.
• ASHRAE Senior Liaison to US Green Building Council
• Member, ASHRAE Task Group 1 - Exergy
• ASHRAE Liaison to the Radiant Panel Association
• Member – United States Green Building Council (USGBC) – Programs Committee
• Wisconsin Licensed Designer of Engineering Systems – HVAC
• National certifications instructor for HVAC including the Radiant Panel Association (RPA), EPA, NATE, and ESCO Institute
•  Past Member (Treasurer), Board of Directors, Radiant Panel Association.
• Past President - Radiant Panel Association - Fox Valley Chapter.
• Past Chairperson – ASHRAE Technical Committee 6.5 – Radiant Heating/Cooling
• Past Chairperson – RPA Snow and Ice Melt Guidelines Action Group.
• Technical paper reviewer for ASHRAE and USGBC
• Co-author - RPA “Snow and Ice Melt Systems Guidelines”.
• Co-editor – RPA “Guidelines for the Design and Installation of Residential Radiant Panel Heating Systems (2004)”.
• Co-author – HVAC Excellence national Hydronics Outcome Assessment for post-secondary schools, Technician, and Instructor Certification Exams.
• National hydronics lecturer (ASHRAE, RPA, RSES, AHR, CFI, MREA)
• Published technical articles in professional magazines
• Member, ASHRAE TG-1 Exergy Task Group
• Member, Ecobuild Advisory Board
• Member:
  *American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)
  *American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
  *Association of Energy Engineers (AEE)
  *Midwest Renewable Energy Association (MREA)
  *Environmental Engineers and Managers Institute (EEMI)
  *United States Green Building Council (USGBC)
  *International Code Council (ICC)
  *Alternative and Renewable Energy Development Institute (AREDI
  

Randall Newton
Editor-in-Chief and Publisher
AECnews.com — IT for Creating and Using the Built Environment
Tonasket, WA
Randall Newton is Editor-in-Chair and Owner of AECnews, formerly A/E/C Automation Newsletter. He has been either writing about or working in the AEC software industry for 21 years.

Richard Paradis
Manager of Federal Programs
Sustainable Buildings Industry Council
Washington, DC
Richard Paradis, P.E. is the Program Manager for SBIC's Federal Buildings Program and is a Senior Engineer on the staff of the Washington office of Steven Winter Associates. He brings over 25 years experience preparing guide-specs for facilities and facility-related equipment and systems. His experience includes over 10 years in managing facilities-related criteria. He has extensive knowledge of low-energy, sustainable design principles, energy-efficient products and systems and security systems. He is one of the co-developers of the Whole Building Design Guide web site which describes high-performance building and the processes and technology needed to achieve them. He is also a Board Certified Noise Control Engineer.

Dana K. "Deke" Smith, AIA
Executive Director, buildingSMART Alliance™
National Institute of Building Sciences
Washington, DC
Deke is the Executive Director of the buildingSMART Alliance™ an emerging program of the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) to improve construction productivity through interoperability.  He was the founder and former chair of the NIBS Facility Information Council, home of the US National Computer Aided Design (CAD) Standard and the evolving National Building Information Modeling (BIM) Standard.  Deke is a senior analyst with the International Centre for Facilities and also a senior analyst with CYON Research, and has his own information consulting firm.  He was a winner of the 1996 Federal 100 award, 1997 NIBS Member Award and the 2006 CAD Society Leadership award.  He is a registered architect in Virginia and has worked as a surveyor, assistant field engineer, facility designer, cost engineer, value engineer, life-cycle cost analyst, deputy CIO, and was the chief information technology (IT) architect for the DoD Business Transformation Agency’s modernization effort for installations and environmental issues before his retirement after 30 years with the DoD. 

Wayne B. Trusty
President
Athena Sustainable Materials Institute
Merrickville, Ontario, Canada
With a Masters degree in economics and almost 40 years of experience in such diverse fields as resource industry economics and policy, water resources, transportation, energy policy and markets, and regional development, Wayne Trusty now serves as President of the ATHENA Sustainable Materials Institute and its U.S. affiliate, Athena Institute International. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor on the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Environmental Design, a member of the board of the Green Building Initiative, and Chair of the Technical Committee established in the U.S. to take the Green Globes rating system through a full American National Standards Institute process. He was previously a Vice Chair of the Board of the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) and a member of the USGBC’s LEED New Construction Steering Committee. He continues to serve on the Product Steering Committee for CaGBC and on the LEED Resources and Materials Technical Advisory Group in the United States. Wayne is a member of several other organizations, including the U.S.  Consortium for Research on Renewable Industrial Materials (CORRIM), is past chairman of an international technical committee examining the use of LCA with regard to building materials and products, and was a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on Materials Flow Accounting.

Mark Wells
Senior International Trade Specialist
U.S. Department of Commerce
U.S. Commercial Service
Washington , DC  
Mark is a Senior International Trade Specialist with the U.S. Commercial Service, an agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce. He is a recognized international trade expert specializing in providing global business solutions and strategies to U.S. A/E/C firms and manufacturers in the green building, sustainable products, architecture and design, interior design, construction and engineering, Building Information Modeling (BIM), sustainable planning, Combined Heat and Power, district cooling, and turbine inlet cooling sectors. His country and regional expertise includes, China, the Middle East and India.

Mark also provides strategic consulting and advice to many industry trade associations, including the American Planning Association, U.S. Green Building Council, Design-Build Institute of America, American Institute of Architects, Association of Equipment Manufacturers, U.S. Combined Heat and Power Association and International District Energy Association. He is a frequent speaker at the leading green building and energy conferences and workshops around the country on the topic of developing international business strategies for U.S. businesses in the following sectors: green buildings, sustainable products, BIM, sustainable urban/city planning, AEC services, CHP/cogeneration, district cooling, seawater cooling, thermal energy storage, and turbine inlet air cooling sectors. Mark is also listed in the 2006 and 2007 editions of Who’s Who in Green, published by Ecotone Publishing.