ASHRAE acknowledged the exceptional achievements and contributions of its members to both the Society and the built environment during its 2024 Winter Conference in Chicago. This is Part 1 of a two-part article.
A list of the awards and recipients are below.
Fellow ASHRAE
Fellow ASHRAE is a membership grade that recognizes members who have attained distinction and made substantial contributions in HVAC&R and the built environment such as education, research, engineering design and consultation, publications, presentations and mentoring. The Society elevated 23 members to the grade of Fellow:
- Vikrant C. Aute, Ph.D., research professor, University of Maryland, College Park, Md.
- KF Chan, director, Southa Engineering Ltd, Hong Kong.
- Richard A. Danks, P.E., Life Member ASHRAE, consultant, Kirtland, Ohio
- Jason W. DeGraw, research and development staff member, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tenn.
- Richard B. Fox, Ph.D., CEO, Aircraft Environment Solutions and Manager, Aeroparts Environmental Control Solutions, Queen Creek, Ariz.
- Siva Gopalnarayanan, senior director, HVAC Controls, Kova Products/Onx Homes Inc., Carrollton, Texas.
- Klas C. Haglid, P.E., founder and CEO, Haglid Engineering & Associates, Inc., Hillsdale, N.J.
- Jae-Weon Jeong, Ph.D., professor, Department of Architectural Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea.
- Yogendra K. Joshi, Ph.D., professor, John M. McKenney and Warren D. Shiver Distinguished Chair, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga.
- Carolyn (Gemma) Kerr, Ph.D., Life Member ASHRAE, retired co-owner, partner, and senior chemist, InAIR Environmental Ltd., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
- Satheesh Kulankara, Ph.D., lead staff engineer, Johnson Controls, York, Penn.
- Satish Kumar, Ph.D., executive director and president, Alliance for an Energy Efficiency Economy, New Delhi, India.
- Hartwig M. Künzel, head of department, Fraunhofer-Institute for Building Physics (IBP), Valley, Bavaria, Germany.
- Suzanne LeViseur, P.E., HBDP, senior mechanical engineer, Haddad Engineering, Inc., Jacksonville, Fla.
- Farhan Mehboob, CEO, S. Mehboob & Company – Consulting Engineers, Karachi, Pakistan.
- Richie Mittal, managing director, Overdrive Engineering Pvt Ltd, Noida, India.
- Ashish Rakheja, managing partner, AEON Integrated Building Design Consultants LLP, Noida, India.
- Andres Sepulveda, director, Commtech Commissioning Services SA, Madrid, Spain.
- Paul W. Snell, P.E., retired engineering fellow, Johnson Controls Inc., York, Penn.
- Igor Vaisman, Ph.D., chief therman management engineer, Mission Technologies, a division of HII, Carmel, Ind.
- Shengwei Wang, Ph.D., chair professor, Building Energy and Automation, director of research, Institute for Smart Energy, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.
- Pawel Wargocki, Ph.D., professor, Department of Environmental and Resource Engineering, DTU SUSTAIN, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.
- Jin Wen, Ph.D., professor, associate dean for research, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Penn.
Award of Engineering Excellence
The Award of Engineering Excellence was created in 1989 to recognise a first-place winner of the Society-level Technology Award competition for an outstanding application of innovative design and effective energy utilisation. The recipient of the Award of Engineering Excellence will have demonstrated the best overall compliance with the judging criteria.
First place recipients of the Award of Engineering Excellence are:
- Hiroki Yokoyama, new healthcare facilities category, Obihiro Kosei General Hospital, Obihiro, Japan. The building is owned by Hokkaido Federation of Health and Agricultural Cooperatives.
The ASHRAE Technology Awards
The ASHRAE Technology Awards recognise outstanding achievements by ASHRAE members who have successfully applied innovative building designs. Their designs incorporate ASHRAE standards for effective energy management and indoor air quality and serve to communicate innovative systems design. Winning projects are selected from entries earning regional awards.
- Cody Ellingson, Jeremiah Christenson and Erik Aakhus, P.E., new commercial buildings category, Mountrail-Williams Electric Cooperative Office Complex, Williston, N.D. The building is owned by Mountrail-Williams Electric Cooperative.
- Martin Roy, Lianne Cockerton and Alexandre Cadieux, existing commercial buildings category, The Phenix – Sustainable Design Lab – Lemay Architecture and Design, Montreal, QC, Canada. The building is owned by Lemay.
- Kiersten Washle and Teresa B. Laurence, P.E., EBCx commercial building category, Liberty Mutual – Boston Campus, Boston, Mass. The building is owned by Liberty Mutual.
- Monjed G. Barakat, P.E., Chad Riggs, Brad Bittmann and Alicia Decesaris, P.E., existing educational facilities category, Loudoun County Public Schools – Aldie Elementary School, Aldie, Va. The building is owned by Loudoun County Public Schools.
- Wade Bennion, P.E. and Randy Neumann, P.E., new educational facilities category, Sunburst Elementary School, Layton, Utah. The building is owned by Davis School District.
- Chun-Sing WONG, Ph.D., BEAP, OPMP, Jacky C K NG, BEAP and Kin-Kwok LAM, BEAP, HBDP EBCx Institutional Buildings category, Sha Tin Racecourse Grandstand, Hong Kong. The building is owned by The Hong Kong Jockey Club.
- Robin Graves, P.E. and Jason Atkisson, P.E., new institutional buildings category, Promega Kornberg Center Fitchburg, Wis. The building is owned by Promega Corporation.
- Matthew Wade, P.E., EBCx Health Care Facilities category, Mercy Health – Lourdes Hospital, Paducah, Ky. The building is owned by Bon Secours Mercy Health.
- Gheorghe Mihalache, Ph.D., P.Eng., new industrial facilities or processes category, Fromagerie Bel Canada, Sorel-Tracy, Quebec, Canada. The building is owned by Groupe bel Canada.
Source
Supplied by ASHRAE.