David Handwork
David Handwork Biography
David Handwork was named the Chief Engineer for United Commercial Energy Partners, LLC in January 2022. David brings over 30 years of facilities operation, energy efficiency, and capital construction knowledge to the UCEP leadership and operations team.
David’s 30 years of professional experience includes major capital construction management in higher education and food processing, engineering design, and management of multiple teams of professionals. His professional leadership in ASHRAE, APPA, CAPPA, and other organizations is a testament of commitment to advancing and promoting the field of facilities management. David’s notable accomplishments include facilities operation efficiencies resulting in 20% budget reallocation, university campus energy efficiency reducing net Energy Use Index (EUI) from +130 kBTU/sqft/yr to 94 kBTU/sqft/yr, and completing over $300 million of capital construction projects during his career.
Campus Decarbonization Through FM Leadership
Higher Education has been a primary leader of environmental sustainability, specifically facilities decarbonization, for over two decades. Actual net-zero decarbonization of higher education facilities and campuses, however, is rare, even [...]
Decarbonizing the Built Enviornment
Energy management. Utility optimization. Sustainablity Environmental stewardship. Green operations. Net Zero Energy. Carbon neutrality. These topics have been integrated into facilities management operations for more than 40 years, starting during [...]
International Energy Conservation Code Change: Enhancement or Dangerous Precedent?
The International Energy Conservation Code (LECO/is the prevalent national model energy code for most American states and local jurisdictions. The ICC is part of the code suite managed by the [...]
The Unclear Future of the Energy Conservation Code
President Howard Taft once stated, “A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.” In an era of quickly evolving codes [...]
The ASHRAE 90.1 Version 2010 Energy Code, and Beyond
Facilities managers should all take notice of deliberate movement regarding the ASHRAE 90.1 energy code. In January of 2011, the 2010 version was published with minor publicity outside of ASHRAE [...]
Net Zero Energy Buildings by Innovation or code talkers Legislation
Looking ahead 30 years, what will our buildings look like? Not in reference to architectural appearance, but in the context of energy consuming systems. A possible means of considering the [...]