Hanson’s Wade Conlan, P.E., CxA, CPMP, LEED AP® BD+C, was part of a team that provided information to the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Energy and Commerce staff about the ASHRAE Epidemic Task Force’s guidance for reopening buildings during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Wade, Hanson’s commissioning and energy discipline manager and a member of the task force; task force chair William Bahnfleth, Ph.D., P.E., and member Dennis Knight, P.E., FASHRAE, DAL, CxA, BEMP, LEED AP® N.C. and O&M; and Alice Yates, ASHRAE’s government affairs director, provided a briefing from the task force May 18 that offered answers to the committee’s questions about buildings reopening and the task force’s involvement in creating guidance.