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ASHRAE elects president for 2024/25

ASHRAE president M Dennis Knight (left) and present-elect Bill McQuade

USA: M Dennis Knight, the founder of Whole Building Systems of South Carolina, has been named as ASHRAE president for 2024/25. 

Baltimore Aircoil’s vice president of government affairs and global sustainability, Bill McQuade, is the new president-elect.

Knight’s theme for the 2024-25 Society Year – Empowering Our Workforce: Building a Sustainable Future – highlights the impact that the industry is making to address climate change, sustainable development and indoor air quality, the emergence of new technologies to HVACR and building sciences and how ASHRAE will be instrumental in attracting and developing the next generation of diverse professionals.

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