USGBC's Middle Atlantic and New England regions have collaborated with the NYC Post of the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) to bring you a variety of monthly webinars in 2021, held the second Wednesday of the months of January, February, March, April, May, and June 2021. The first installment is on January 13, 2021: Risk Reducing Strategies for Schools: Post-COVID-19.

M&E Engineers Principal, Bill Amann, is featured in the latest USGBC Regional Advocate Spotlight. He has committed most of his professional career to high performance buildings, and continues to fight the good fight against climate change.

Drew DePalma has been selected for a top young professional award. The NJBIZ Forty Under 40 award recognizes the best and the brightest of the Garden State’s next generation of business leaders.

Drew DePalma has been selected as one of the Top 20 Young Professionals in the NY/NJ region by Engineering News-Record (ENR)! His is touted for his forward thinking in the fields of sustainability and wellness. The 20 selected as ENR New York’s 2020 Top Young Professionals give back to their communities, encourage Garden State and Empire State youth to pursue engineering and help their employers pivot and grow.

M&E Engineers is honored to have been presented with a 2019 NJ Smart Workplaces Platinum Award at the RideWiseTMA 2019 Awards Breakfast. Key attributes that contributed to this achievement include an EV charger and flextime & telecommuting policies.

Drew DePalma’s article entitled “Wellness is the New Green” was published in the Mid-Atlantic Real Estate Journal. While green buildings and sustainability are here to stay, wellness has emerged as a primary focus of the built environment. It has been documented to provide significant positive contributions to employee health, efficiency, and morale.

M&E Engineers has won an NJBIA Outstanding Employer Award!!! It is reserved for companies that celebrate creative and forward-looking approaches to managing HR. M&E maintains a desirable work life balance and is focused on employee wellness.

Drew DePalma spoke about employee wellness within the built environment at the 15th Annual Mid-Atlantic Building & Facilities Management Trade Show & Conference at the NJ Convention Center. Wellness has become a very trendy term lately, particularly in the corporate space. If implemented correctly, it can have a significant effect on employee retention and efficiency.

Bill Amann joined a discussion panel of experts on the present and future of design & construction trends to both mitigate and deal with the affects of Climate Change at the East Coast Green conference.

William Amann gave a presentation at GreenCon 2019, which was geared towards data driven building performance.

His session used case study examples of how energy use can be predicted, measured, trended and analyzed. Energy modeling is typically utilized to estimate energy use for comparative purposes, as opposed to predictive purposes. Various methods of how to calculate the energy efficiency required to achieve a Net Zero Energy building will be discussed.

Once a building is built and in use, Internet of Things (IoT) technology and data cloud analytics allows for monitoring, trending and reporting. Metering for IPMVP protocols can be more complicated that one might think. Examples from Energy Star and LEED Platinum certified buildings were presented.

William Amann authored an article that was featured in the Green Buildings section of the Mid Atlantic Real Estate Journal. Unilever Headquarters Earns Awards and Energy Incentives. M&E Engineers provided energy modeling and system commissioning.

M&E Engineers has been recognized as a sustainable business on the NJ Sustainable Business Registry since 2016. M&E recently renewed their status by completing additional sustainability tasks for their office building, including installing as EV charger.

M&E Engineers regrets to announce the passing of its founder, Donald Campbell. Don passed away peacefully surrounded by his family on December 21, 2018 in Easton, MD.

Donald was born in Riverhead, Long Island, NY in 1928 and graduated with a mechanical engineering degree from the State University of New York. Don served in the U.S. Navy at Westover Air Force Base, MA from 1950 to 1954. He married Jo Ann in June 1952. After working at Lawrence Picone Constructors, he started a New Jersey branch office for Jansen & Rogan Consulting Engineers in Newark, NJ. Upon retiring in 1984, he was asked by NJ Bell to come out of retirement, which led him to start M&E Engineers in Monmouth Junction, NJ.

NJ Bell became part of Bell Atlantic in 1983, which became part of Verizon in 2000. Verizon continues to be a major client for M&E Engineers. Bill Amann joined Don at M&E in 1987, and took over the company in 1990, when Don and Jo Ann relocated to Maryland, where Don enjoyed sailing and competing in the Herring Island Sailing Fleet.

Don is survived by his wife, Jo Ann; his three children and their spouses; one grandson, seven granddaughters, and seven great-grandchildren. Don was an outstanding engineer and a true gentleman. M&E Engineers is proud to continue his legacy.

M&E Engineers has won two ‘Best Of 2018’ awards by the Mid Atlantic Real Estate Journal. The first is for the Unilever Headquarters in the Best Green Project category, with the second being the Verizon Headquarters in the Best Engineering Project category.

Drew DePalma is the first M&E employee to receive the designation of WELL Accredited Professional, and is one of only seven in New Jersey. The WELL Building Standard is the first building standard to focus exclusively on the health and wellness of the people in buildings. WELL is an evidence and performance-based system for measuring, certifying and monitoring features that impact human health and well-being in the built environment, through air, water, nourishment, light, fitness, comfort and mind.

A special thanks to all of our clients and vendors. Our success would simply not be possible without your support.

In an effort to help combat the effects of climate change, this holiday season we have committed to planting a total of 500 trees in California and Colorado through One Tree Planted.

This is the year to attend the USGBC NJ Golf Outing!

Join us for sustainable food, open bar, and top shelf networking.

The beef is going to be grass fed, the fish will be U.S. Wild Caught, the vegetables will be locally grown… and best of all M&E Engineers will be sponsoring the beverage cart, which will be stocked with craft beers from environmentally responsible breweries.

There will be NO Plastic Tee Signs. All will be made from recycled paper.

The event is certified Carbon Neutral by CarbonFund.org.

Black Oak Golf Course is certified Silver in the Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Program for golf.

Proceeds of all Mulligan sales will be donated to the Market Street Mission in Morristown to sponsor holiday meals for those in need,

SO whether you are a golfer or not, this is going to be one of the best golf outings the year.

There is still room for golfers and for all who just want to come and mingle over cocktails and dinner.

The office building of M&E Engineers has once again earned its Energy Star certification! It has earned this designation since 2009.

The International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) has released the WELL v2 polit, the next version of its pioneering WELL Building Standard. This second iteration includes a full suite of enhancements that advance IWBI's aim to build a healthier future for all, including: program refinements, localized metrics, simplified scoring, feature codes, 10 concepts, and performance verification adjustments.

Bill Amann is continuing his mission of educating young minds by teaching a 'Building Commissioning and Retro Commissioning' class this summer at Raritan Valley Community College (RVCC) as part of their HVAC - Environmental Control Technology Program. The program is geared towards students looking to pursue a career as an HVAC/R Technician by giving them the tools to master the skills and design theory of today's cutting edge heating and refrigeration industry.