Topic: Why Commissioning is Here to Stay - Roundtable
Theme: Membership Promotion
Speakers:
H. Jay Enck, CxAP, HBDP, LEED AP, CPCM
H. Jay Enck is the founder and principal of Commissioning and Green Building Solutions, Inc. (CxGBS). An innovative leader in building commissioning, operational efficiency, building forensics, green design and sustainable development, he has conducted commissioning processes for more than $3 billion in construction, including the ASHRAE Headquarters renovation.
Enck has more than 25 years experience in engineering, construction, and building operations. His forte is providing lessons learned to reduce owner risk and team effort, as well as providing a Holistic Commissioning™ that starts in predesign and carries through for life of the building.
Enck is a founding board member of the Atlanta Regional Chapter of U.S. Green Building Council (later the Georgia USGBC), and serves the USGBC nationally on the Sustainable Site and Energy & Atmosphere technical advisory groups, as well as the LEED™ Accreditation Exam Development Committee. As a member of ASHRAE, he is a contributing author of the ASHRAE Green Guide, Advanced Energy Design Guides for Small Offices, Retail, and Warehouses, serves on TC 2.8 Building Environmental Impacts and Sustainability, TC 7.6 Systems Energy Utilization, TC 9.9 Building Commissioning, High Performance Building Design Professional and Building Commissioning Certification committees.
Stephen R. Wiggins
Stephen R. Wiggins is an Associate Partner with Newcomb & Boyd, an Atlanta based consulting firm. His work with the firm involves commissioning, retrocommissioning, and training activities for institutional, commercial, government and industrial projects. He has spoken internationally on the subject of commissioning, and has presented on sustainability and commissioning to Greenprints, the American Society for Healthcare Engineering, the International Facility Management Association (IFMA), the Air Conditioning and Mechanical Contractors’ Association of Australia, GovEnergy, the National Conference on Building Commissioning, and the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE).
Newcomb & Boyd is a multidiscipline consulting and engineering firm providing services of programming, design, construction documents, contract administration, studies, and facility condition surveys. From one office in Atlanta, Newcomb & Boyd serves clients throughout the United States and internationally. The firm was founded in 1923 as Robert S. Newcomb, Consulting Engineer; the name was changed to Newcomb & Boyd in 1931 when Spencer W. Boyd became a Partner.
John K. McFarland, PE, CCP, CEM, LEED AP
John has been actively serving as a commissioning authority since 1998. John has commissioned office buildings, education facilities, state-of-the-art data centers, cancer research facilities, biological research facilities, and other high performance and containment research facilities. He has worked as the owner’s agent from the design phase through construction and start-up and works well with both engineers and contractors, having come from a design/build background. He has been actively involved in promoting sustainability in projects. He has acted as LEED Consultant, commissioned LEED projects, and serves on committees and as a member of LEED Faculty. John served as the president of the Atlanta Chapter of ASHRAE for 2009. He is and active participant in shaping ASHRAE guidelines as vice-chair of the SSPC 62.1 committee for maintaining ASHRAE Standard 62.1 Indoor Air Quality.
