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Specialized Professional Competence
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- LEED Accredited Professional
- Air Quality Compliance
- Code Compliance and Standards Review
- Cogeneration Systems
- Commissioning
- Electrical Lighting
- Electrical Power
- Emergency Power
- Energy Conservation and Energy Management Systems
- Expert Witness and Evaluations
- Facilitator in Planning and Executing Projects
- Fire Protection Systems
- Forensic Analyses and Evaluations
- Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning Systems
- Indoor Air Quality Evaluations (IAQ)
- Industrial, Healthcare and Larger Plant Facility Planning
- Innovative Design and Creative Solutions
- Interface of Systems with New and Existing Building Envelopes and Systems
- Low Voltage Systems
- Noise, Vibration, and Sound Control
- Numerical Modeling and Analysis
- Piping and Plumbing Systems
- Problem Solving, Trouble Shooting of Mechanical, Electrical, Process Systems
- Process Systems
- Refrigeration Systems
- Root Cause Evaluations
- Seismic Evaluations and Designs
- System Evaluations
- Systems Modeling
Experience
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President of Bonhag Associates, Consulting Engineers
President and chief engineer in charge at Bonhag Associates, a consortium of consulting professionals in the energy, healthcare, industrial, commercial, and institutional arenas. Responsible for all planning, innovative design, problem solving, trouble shooting, including biomass CHP, HVAC, plumbing, fire protection, process piping, heat recovery, and heat transfer systems, controls and instrumentation, providing creative solutions for processes and systems. Responsible for cogeneration systems, environmental applications, energy incentive and energy related systems, humidification, dehumidification, testing, adjustment and balancing, noise and vibration systems, thermal oxidizer systems, and systems commissioning. Responsible for troubleshooting and problem solving of mechanical systems in a number of diversely sized HVAC systems throughout the world.
Vice President of Engineering and Construction, Lambertville Restoration, Limited Partnership
In charge of all engineering design, permits and construction for commercial office, retail, and hotel projects. The work encompassed all phases of construction from concept to preliminary estimates to issuance of purchase orders to implementation of construction work to supervision of work on site and final acceptance of work at issuance of Certificate of Occupancy. In addition, many of the projects required mechanical, electrical, plumbing and building renovation to occur while the buildings were occupied.
Principal Engineer, Wayne T. Bonhag, P.E., Consulting Engineer
Provided design and analysis with respect to HVAC, energy, controls, fire protection, code compliance, hazardous waste, fume hood and exhaust systems, process piping, plumbing, and asbestos, removal/encapsulation for commercial and industrial clients. Responsible for projects from concept development to budget cost estimate to project closeout. As president of this firm, worked throughout the United States and Europe to troubleshoot and problem solve specific industrial mechanical, electrical, plumbing and process technical problems.
Chief Mechanical Engineer and CEO, Bonhag Company, Inc., Engineers and Contractors
Responsible for the operation a 110-person firm that provided HVAC, mechanical, plumbing, process piping, electrical, controls, energy, process, engineering, construction services and service company; design of energy management systems; supervision of administrative functions; supervision of engineers, designers, and field technicians on design projects; design of HVAC and related systems; developed programs to predict energy consumption and systems operation. The firm worked for major industrial and heavy commercial clients throughout the Atlantic States. Projects ranged from small to large renovation residential, commercial and industrial projects and new commercial and industrial projects.
Professional Background
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- Registered Professional Engineer in Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Colorado, Michigan, and Illinois
- Registered Professional Planner in New Jersey
- LEED Accredited Professional
- New Jersey Department of Energy Certified Technical Analyst
- MS Mechanical Engineering, University of Vermont
- BS Mechanical Engineering, University of Vermont
- Advanced Studies, Ocean Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology
- Entered the Profession in 1968
Memberships
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- American Society of Facilities Engineers (ASFE)
- American Society of Heating Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
- American Society of Plumbing Engineers (ASPE)
- Association of Energy Engineers (AEE)
- Building Officials and Code Administrators International (BOCA)
- The Cogeneration Institute
- EPA CHP Partnership
- International Association of Electrical Inspectors (IAEI)
- International Code Council (ICC)
- National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
- National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE)
- NSPE—Profossional Engineers in Construction, Founder
- New Hampshire Society for Professional Engineers (NHSPE)
- Order of Engineers
- U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC)
- Vermont Society for Professional Engineers (VSPE)
Seminars
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- EPA's Clean DG Policy CHP Webinar Series: Biomass CHP Applications, Part 2 of 2. Wayne T. Bonhag, PE, PP, LEED AP, Presenter. "North Country Healthcare and Their Biomass CHP System." EPA CHP Webinar: June 25, 2009.
- University of Southern Maine, Alternate Energy Incentives Seminar. Wayne T. Bonhag. "Efficient Use of Energy: Efficient Use of a Broad Spectrum of Energy." Gorham, Maine: USM Energy Seminar, April 8, 2009.
Publications
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- "The Feasibility of Wood Gasification as a Fuel Source for Combined Electrical and Thermal Generation," USDA Grant, January 2008.
- "Biomass Gasification Systems in the Combined Heat and Power Market," 2007.
- "Green Up Your Business: Applying Sustainable Design Principles To Your Building Will Benefit You and Can Save You Money," Construction Images, Winter 2007.
- "Sustainable and Green Building Design," Construction Images, Winter 2006. [Read Article]
- "Commissioning of HVAC, Control and Electrical Systems Is Important to the Satisfactory Installation, Operation, and Performance of Building and Process Systems," Construction Images, Volume 5, Number 2, 1999.
- "What Is Cogeneration and Why Use It?", Construction Images, Volume 5, Number 1, 1999.
- "HVAC Commissioning Important to the Satisfactory Installation, Operation, and Performance of Systems," DH In Design, 1997. Read the Article]
- "Compost Facility Ventilation Systems Design," with Mark E. Lang, PE, and Ronald Jager, January 1992.
- "Double Duty Plumbing: Heating and Cooling Your Building with Your Fire Sprinkler System," Industry Magazine, June 1991.
- Unpublished Masters of Engineering Thesis: "Wave Propagation in Fluid Flow Through Flexible Tubes," University of Vermont, May 1970.
Developments
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- Cogeneration Analytical Modeling Program
- Explosion-Proof Boiler Plant
- Hog Weighing Device
- Multi-Fuel Cogeneration Energy Screening Tool Cogeneration Analytical Modeling Program
- Multicolor Single-Pass Printing Operation
- Optifuel Calculator
- Optimization and Modeling of Various Plant Production Facilities
- Paper Stretch Range
- Quasi-Clean Room Loading Facility
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