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January 2026 Nashville ASHRAE Meeting - Wade Conlan, P.E., Fellow ASHRAE (Distinguished Lecturer)

 

January 20, 2026
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
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Adventure Science Center
800 Fort Negley Boulevard
Nashville, TN 37203-4833
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Wade Conlan, P.E., BCxP, CxA, LEED AP BD+C
Commissioning & Energy Discipline Manager - Hanson
Presentation Topic:  Energy and Carbon Transition Plans: Using Audits and Retro-Commissioning to Create and Achieve your Goals

This session is meant to discuss the process of creating an energy and/or carbon transition plan for the building systems in your portfolio of facilities. There are multiple steps in the process to develop these plans, including equipment condition assessments, energy/carbon audits, retro-commissioning and more. This process does need to include the building ownership and operators to establish goals and developing the actual planned improvement measure implementation schedule. The intent of this plan is to be proactive in how your facilities will achieve your potential net zero energy or carbon neutrality pledges.

About the Speaker:

Wade H. Conlan, P.E., BCxP, CxA, LEED AP BD+C has over 30 years of commissioning and design engineering experience and has completed projects in a variety of building use categories. Projects have included healthcare, airports, data centers, laboratories, central utility plants, hospitality, themed entertainment, pharmaceutical, gaming, and mission critical.

Wade received his Bachelor of Architectural Engineering from Penn State in 1995.

Wade is an active participant in many levels of ASHRAE, including being a past Chapter President, Regional Refrigeration Chair, and many roles at society including as Vice President for 2023-2025 (two-year term). Wade joined as a student in 1994. Wade has chaired the Environmental Health Committee, lead the ASHRAE Epidemic Task Force’s Building Readiness Team, chaired SPC 110 – Method of Test for Fume Hood Performance, chaired TC 9.10 Laboratories, member of SSPC 300 – Building Commissioning, past voting member of GPC 1.1 and past-chair of GPC 1.6P – Commissioning for Data Centers.

Wade has been published in many technical documents, including the ASHRAE Journal. He has also spoken at, and chaired, numerous ASHRAE Conferences on topics of energy, indoor air quality, and standards.

Wade currently serves as Hanson's Commissioning & Energy Discipline Manager whose team does work around the world. He has led retro-commissioning on more than 75 million square feet of buildings around the world. He has also led many commissioning, energy audits, and condition assessments.

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