Adventures of Johnny Tundra, Cold-Weather Engineer: ‘Rx for a Feverish Drug-Storage Room’
June 16, 2015
At Stony End Home for the Aged, facilities manager Thatcher “Thatch” McGowan is feeling the heat—in more ways than one. The colder it gets outside, the warmer it seems to get in the pharmaceutical storage room. If drugs have to be destroyed for being stored out of compliance, the superintendent vows to use Thatch’s carcass to test the incinerator! Luckily for Thatch, his pal Johnny Tundra is making the rounds.
The founding principal of Seattle-based Wilkinson Commissioning Management, Ron Wilkinson, PE, LEED AP, CPMP, is the author of the first commissioning training program for the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for New Construction and Major Renovations Green Building Rating System and the founding recording secretary for ASHRAE Guideline Project Committee 0.2/1.2, The Commissioning Process for Existing Building Systems and Assemblies/The Commissioning Process for Existing HVAC&R Systems. An ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer and an American Institute of Architects Continuing Education Lecturer, he has spoken on commissioning practices internationally. He is a longtime member of HPAC Engineering’s Editorial Advisory Board.
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