My Experience

Independent consultant engineer to owners assisting in trouble-shooting, energy conservation, integrated project delivery facilitator, 3^rd party commissioning and testing, adjusting, and balancing facilitator, and computerized maintenance management services.

Howard McKew, P.E., CPE

• Registered Professional Engineer
   
• Certified Plant Engineer
   
• ASHRAE Fellow and inductee into the ASHRAE Boston Chapter Hall of Fame
   
• Member ASHRAE Strategic Handbook Committee, TC 9.01 Large Building Air Conditioning Systems, and TG.2 HVAC Security
   
• Recipient of ASHRAE George B. Hightower Technical Achievement Award
   
• Recipient of 12-Energy Engineering Awards from ASHRAE during the 1980’s and 1990’s
   
• Author of more than 400 articles and monthly columns and 1-book (Managing People in the HVAC/R Industry), as well as:
  
  - Author of “Process, Projects, & Profits – A Practitioner’s Guide to the Building Industry” an on-line book that can be purchased chapter-by-chapter
  - Contributing author to 4 McGraw-Hill books and multiple ASHRAE Handbook chapters
  - Monthly column (Tomorrow’s Environment) in Engineered Systems magazine since 1992
  - Monthly ATC-TAB-Commissioning and Retro-Commissioning series/test (Back2Basics) in Engineered Systems magazine since 1996
  - On-line webinars, podcasts, and blog on www.esmagazine.com
   
• Steering Committee Member of the Healthcare Associated Infection Organization committed to eliminated infections acquired while in a healthcare facility
   
• National Environmental Balancing Bureau air and water balancing 1994
   
• 20-years as an HVAC Engineer up to an including Manager of HVAC Engineering for major Boston consulting engineering firm. During that time developed 2-new engineering services/profit centers (energy conservation group and facility support services group)
   
• 9-years at a major mechanical contracting and facility management firm on the east coast During that time was Vice President of Design-Build Engineering and Construction Department Estimating and member of Corporate Quality Control Steering Committee, as well as responsible for Operation and Maintenance quality control and computerized maintenance management work order system for 24 million square feet of buildings from New England to Washington DC along with corporate training of technicians
   
• 4-years at a major construction management firm. During that time was Vice President of Engineering and developed of in-house mechanical and electrical estimation and a separate facility support services group/profit center responsible for operation and maintenance management for approximately 5 million square feet of college, university, and healthcare facilities
   
• 4-years at President of a national consulting engineering firm with responsibility for management of branch offices in Massachusetts and Cleveland Ohio
   
• 9-years at a major consulting engineering firm responsible for commissioning, retro-commissioning, facility assessments, energy retro-commissioning and 3rd Party TAB services.