NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ecosystem Energy Services design engineer Jean-Philippe “JP” Drouin has been awarded Young Energy Professional of the Year 2016 by the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE).
The award is granted annually to individuals 35 years of age or younger to recognize outstanding contributions to the energy profession and to the community. It will be presented at the World Energy Engineering Conference in Washington DC on September 21.
Drouin joined Ecosystem nine years ago, after receiving his degree in mechanical engineering from McGill University. As a design engineer with Ecosystem, he has been responsible for leading multi-million-dollar projects and proposals in Canada and the US for more than 100 healthcare, educational, commercial, municipal and industrial buildings that incorporate cutting-edge technologies to achieve meaningful energy and cost savings. His projects include the Mount Sinai Brooklyn Hospital project (previously known as Beth Israel Medical Center–Kings Highway Division), an innovative cogeneration and steam-to-hot-water conversion that won AEE’s 2014 Energy Project of the Year Award for Region 1. He is also an active member of the NYC distributed generation (DG) community and in 2013 participated in an initiative of the Mayor’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability to identify a strategic roadmap for DG development in NYC.
With this award, the AEE is recognizing Drouin’s innovative approach to energy efficiency engineering. “I am fortunate to work with Ecosystem’s multidisciplinary teams, which encourage creative thinking and exceeding expectations of what we can achieve in terms of efficiency and cost savings,” Drouin said.
About Ecosystem:
Ecosystem is an award-winning design-build engineering firm that has retrofitted over 1,000 buildings in North America. The company’s projects have generated more than $200 million in cumulative savings and helped avoid 360,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions. Ecosystem’s buildings are more energy efficient, less expensive to operate, and are better for the environment.
