ASHRAE Insights

Molly McGuire has been selected as ASHRAE’s top New Face of Engineering, a recognition program created to promote the accomplishments of young engineers by highlighting their engineering contributions and the resulting impact on public welfare.
 
The program targets engineers age 30 and younger.
 
The New Faces of Engineering program, sponsored by National Engineers Week, held Feb. 17–23, was announced in a full-page ad published in USA Today on Feb. 18.
McGuire and the other top New Faces from organizations sponsoring National Engineers Week, were featured in the ad.

McGuire is a mechanical designer at Taylor Engineering in Alameda, Calif. McGuire’s projects include VAV retrofits of two chemistry labs at Stanford University, which significantly reduced building energy consumption.

She is designing lab retrofits which constitute an additional 250,000 ft² (23 000 m²). She also designed an underfloor air distribution HVAC system serving a library slated for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) certification.
 
McGuire also developed a tool for sizing piping optimized to balance life-cycle energy and first cost.
 
She serves on the committee writing Standard 189.1P, Standard for the Design of High Performance Green Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings

McGuire was selected from 16 nominees. For more information about McGuire and the other nominees, visit www.ashrae.org/newfaces2008.