Thursday May 10, 2007 - 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Sponsors: Benjamin Moore, Computer Floors Inc./ASM, C/S Group, Forbo, Natural Cork, Tate Access Floors, Zeftron, Zumtobel Staff Lighting, GreenDepot, NYSERDA
COMMISSIONING FOR GREEN BUILDINGS
Find out why and how Commissioning
(Cx)
is
Important for Sustainable
Architecture
Speaker:
Ron Wilkinson, P.E., LEED
AP
Business Development
The DomeTech Group
This lecture will cover:
How commissioning--
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Clarifies
owner expectations
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Finishes
the job on schedule
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Increases
productivity in the finished building
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Has a
five year payback – information from national studies
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Improves
ongoing preventive maintenance
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Provides
benefits for the entire design team
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How
commissioning works with architects
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How
commissioning helps the LEED process
SPEAKER BIO:
Ron
Wilkinson, P.E., LEED AP
Ron Wilkinson is a nationally published author
and speaker on commissioning quality assurance.
He is an ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer and an AIA Continuing
Education
Lecturer, authored the USGBC
LEED
commissioning training program and is a regular speaker at the National
Conference on Building Commissioning. A
member of the editorial board of Heating/ Piping/ Air Conditioning
Engineering
magazine, he is published in the ASHRAE Journal, HPAC, Energy User
News,
Engineered Systems and Engineering News-Record magazines, among others. He was co-chair of the Commissioning
Guideline Committee of the National Association of State Facilities
Administrators which published its “Building Commissioning Recommended
Guidelines” in April 2003, and had his “Best Practices in
Commissioning”
published by the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance in 2000. He earned his BSMAE from the Illinois
Institute of Technology in 1971 and his master of Public Administration
from
the Evergreen State College in 1985. He
is currently in charge of Business Development for The Dome-Tech Group
of Edison, New Jersey.
