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Dick Glumac Receives ASHRAE 50 Year Membership Award; USGBC Founder visits

Jack Sargent, P.E., LEED®AP, San Francisco Associate Principal

Dick Glumac was awarded with a certificate honoring his 50 years of ASHRAE membership at the Annual ASHRAE meeting this past June, held in Long Beach, California. Dick joined ASHRAE in 1956 when he graduated from the University of Toronto. He then worked at a small consulting firm with Harold Kuschner, with whom he was reunited at the convention after 40 years, as a mechanical consulting engineer in Los Angeles in the 1960€™s before founding Glumac in 1971. Steve Straus, President of Glumac, and Richard Holzer, Managing Principal of the Irvine office, also attended the ceremony.


 

David Gottfried, founder of the U.S. Green Building Council, came to the Glumac Los Angeles office to meet with Dick Glumac and Steve Straus. As founder of the USGBC in 1993, David led the development of the LEED® Green Building Rating System. He is currently President of WorldBuild, a new international organization which aims to do on an international scale what the USGBC has done in the United States. He is also Vice President of Thomas Properties Group and is leading the implementation of their green building fund.

Both Dick Glumac and David Gottfried related their personal stories of perseverance and triumph to an audience of avid listeners. Dick recounted his days on the water polo team, immigrating to the US after World War II, and starting his own company. David described the challenges that he faced founding the USGBC before green building was popular, and working tirelessly to transform the marketplace to embrace sustainability.

ASHRAE 50 Year Membership Award Certificate for Dick Glumac

 

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