"People deserve to live and work in buildings that work correctly and are energy efficient."

Michael has over 25 years of extensive experience of building commissioning and related services for commercial, educational, cultural, healthcare and residential facilities.

Key Stats:

• Partner in charge on prominent projects such as the New York Times Headquarters, 330 Jay Street, Stony Brook University Medical Center Major Modernization, University of Pennsylvania Health System Center for Advanced Medicine and numerous Battery Park City Authority projects.
• Leader in the building commissioning industry:
  • Building Commissioning Association (BCA): Currently serving as a Director on the Building Commissioning Certification Board (BCCB). He has also served a two year term from 2005 through 2006 as President of the BCA after serving as Vice President for three years and spearheaded the organization's Certified Commissioning Professional (CCP) program.
  • United States Green Building Council (USGBC): Helped to develop the commissioning guidelines for LEED-NC Version 2.2,, serving on the NYC Chapter Board of Directors of the U.S. Green Building Council.
  • City/State: Worked with New York City’s Mayor’s Office to develop retro-commissioning guidelines for PlaNYC Local Law 87. Testified at NY City Hall to make amendments to NY State energy code to include building commissioning requirements.
  • Awards: 2008 recipient of the Benner Award (NCBC), which represents outstanding achievement in making building commissioning "business as usual".
• Bachelor of Engineering degree from SUNY Maritime College, Mr. English is a Professional Engineer in 18 states: NY, NJ, PA, CT, MD, VA, NC, SC, UT, KY, MA, DE, RI, FL, GA, MS, OH and IN.
• Featured lecturer and presenter at the NCBC, USGBC Salons, BCA Expo, ASHRAE and NFMT events.

Josephine Gravos has over 15 years of experience managing several departments: marketing, operations, business development, human resources and information technology. She serves as the key liaison between senior level executives and coordination of cross-functional teams. As point person, she has experience in several interrelated areas of management: designing marketing strategy, executing initiatives, instituting cost-saving efficiencies, leveraging existing networks and operations vendor relations.

Michael Wisler has over 20 years of commissioning, validation, capital project management, facilities/maintenance, calibration and testing adjusting and balancing experience. Mr. Wisler is an adept manager of multiple, cross functional departments of up to 80 people. His professional history also includes leading teams in various environments, such as consulting engineering, production facilities, laboratories and clean rooms. Mr. Wisler manages, supports and provides direction and technical leadership while maintaining accountability of the financial performance of projects.

Jonathan Friedman, PE has 20 years of industry experience commissioning and designing building systems. He has directed commissioning projects for pharmaceutical, higher-education, government, K-12, healthcare and commercial facilities. This includes managing and participating in design reviews, pre-functional and functional testing and post-occupancy consulting services. He has authored commissioning specifications, testing procedures, system operating manuals and energy savings reports.

Glenn Cattell, Regional Director, is a detail oriented, licensed Master Electrician with over 25 years of experience in electrical construction, testing, maintenance, operation and over 10 years of experience commissioning and leading commissioning teams. Commissioning a variety of projects including data centers, hospitals, higher education, laboratories and industrial manufacturing facilities provides a wide range of experience working with many systems. This provided the opportunity to gain a vast amount of experience with a variety of systems including but not limited to low voltage through 35KV electrical distribution, HVAC including air distribution, chilled water and heating hot water systems, steam systems, process and waste water systems, plumbing, fire alarm, and security systems.

Scott Lance is a Regional Director with over 20 years of hands-on experience in project management and systems engineering; including 10 years of controls experience with Siemens. He has a proven ability to successfully organize critical business requirements and identify deficiencies. Mr. Lance is experienced with all aspects of building automation and controls systems including conceptual design, engineering, installation, start-up, commissioning, O&Ms and customer training. In addition to lab, cleanrooms and pollution abatement systems, Mr. Lance has experience commissioning education, commercial and healthcare facilities.

With over 10 years of A/E/C marketing experience, Kathleen Favale is the Marketing Manager at HEA. She is responsible for directing firm-wide marketing and business development activities for a 100-person engineering firm with 10 offices to ensure the financial stability and growth of the firm. She leads teams to execute business development and marketing strategies and outreach efforts consistent with the corporate strategy and branding and messaging guidelines. Duties include managing and facilitating tasks related to:
•    Business Development Coordination/Research/Strategic Group
•    Market Research/Proposal Process
•    Sales Forecast/Sales Monitoring the Marketing Manager at HEA for offices nationwide