District Energy - 2008 4th Quarter

District Energy is an official publication of the International District Energy Association. Published quarterly since 1915.

Publisher and President Robert P. Thornton

Executive Editor Monica Westerlund

Technical Editor Anthony Mirabella

Advertising Sales Tanya Kozel

Art Director Dick Garrison

Editorial Advisory Committee

Ray DuBose University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Mike Goff Stanford University

Joe Hoose Cool Systems, Inc.

Jack Kattner Kattner Associates

Doug Maust HGA Architecture Engineering Planning

Steve Spiwak Nalco Company

David Woods Energy Systems Company of Omaha

To contact the publication: District Energy 24 Lyman Street, Suite 230 Westborough, MA 01581-1483 (508) 366-9339 (508) 366-0019 (fax) idea@districtenergy.org

Board of Directors 2008-2009

Executive Committee

Chair DENNIS FOTINOS Enwave Energy Corporation 181 University Ave, Ste 1710 Toronto, ONT M5H 3M7 Canada (416) 338-8912 dfotinos@enwave.com

Vice Chair JUAN MANUEL ONTIVEROS University of Texas at Austin PO Drawer 7850 Austin, TX 78713 (512) 232-4191 juano@mail.utexas.edu

Second Vice Chair DAVID TOOMBS Citizens Thermal 366 Kentucky Ave. Indianapolis, IN 46225 (317) 693-8805 dtoombs@cgcu.com

Secretary/Treasurer TOM GUGLIELMI NRG Thermal LLC Suite 2600 80 S. 8th Street Minneapolis, MN 55402 (612) 436-4106 tom.guglielmi@nrgenergy.com

Past Chair ROBERT SMITH RMF Engineering, Inc. 190 West Ostend Street Baltimore, MD 21230 (410) 576-0505 rdsmith@rmf.com

Board Members

JAMES ADAMS Cornell University 135 Humphreys Service Building Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-6647 jra4@cornell.edu

VINCENT BADALI Consolidated Edison 4 Irving Place – Rm. 1328 New York, NY 10003 (212) 460-3972 badaliv@coned.com

CLIFF BRADDOCK TAS 4300 Dixie Drive Houston, TX 77021 (512) 627-4748 cbraddock@tas.com

JOSEPH BRILLHART Johnson Controls 41st Floor 60 E. 42nd Street New York, NY 10165 (646) 658-6785 joseph.m.brillhart@jci.com

JOHN CARLSON Burns & McDonnell Engineering Co., Inc.

1700 West Loop South Houston, TX 77027 (713) 622-0227 jcarlson@burnsmcd.com

GREGG COFFIN University of Missouri, Columbia 417 S. Fifth Street Columbia, MO 65211 (573) 882-3094 coffing@missouri.edu

JOHNATHAN COLEMAN JA Coleman LLC PO Box 425 Wilmington, VT 05363 (802) 999-6062 john@jacolemanllc.com

MIKE GOFF Stanford University 327 Bonair Siding 2nd Flr Stanford, CA 94305 (650) 723-3351 mikeg@bonair.stanford.edu

BOB MAFFEI Perma-Pipe, Inc. 7720 N. Lehigh Ave. Niles, IL 60714 (847) 966-2235 maffeib@permapipe.com

TIMOTHY MERRILL NRG Energy Center Pittsburgh 111 S. Commons Pittsburgh, PA 15212 (412) 231-0409 tim.merrill@nrgenergy.com

TOM PIERSON TAS Packaged Central Plants 4300 Dixie Drive Houston, TX 77021 (713) 877-8700 tpierson@tas.com

DANY JOSEPH SAFI National Central Cooling Co. “Tabreed” Abu Dhabi Mall, West Tower 13th Floor PO Box 29478 Abu Dhabi, UAE +971 2 6455007 dsafi@tabreed.com

AUREL SELEZEANU Duke University 114 S. Buchanan Blvd. Durham, NC 27708 (919) 660-4222 aurel.selezeanu@duke.edu

STEVEN TREDINNICK Syska Hennessy Group 429 Gammon Place, Suite 200 Madison, WI 53719 (608) 826-9402 stredinnick@syska.com

PATRICIA WILSON Affliated Engineers Inc. 401 N. Washington St., Suite 400 Rockville, MD 20850 (301) 509-6730 pwilson@aeieng.com

Ex-Officio Robert P. Thornton Monica L. Westerlund

Legislative Director Mark Spurr

Legal Counsel Joel L. Greene Jennings, Strouss & Salmon

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