Dan Comperchio currently serves as a senior engineer at Willdan Energy Solutions in their Chicago office. He has provided engineering support on nearly 200 data center projects, conducted walk-throughs on over 1.8 million square feet of data center whitespace, and delivered over 75 million kWh in verified data center energy savings. Dan currently holds a Professional Engineer license in Illinois and California and holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University and a Masters in Energy Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dan was recently named the AEE Energy Engineer of the Year for Region III.
For the last 40 years, engineers and designers have turned to the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Engineers’ (ASHRAE) Standard 90.1 for guidance in designing energy-efficient building systems.
The world of high-performance computing (HPC) traditionally has been dominated by large engineering-intensive industries such as oil and gas and academic research institutions such as national science laboratories.