Building Information Modeling for the Mechanical Disciplines
Dennis Knight, Whole Building Systems
Dennis Knight is the Founder and Principal of Whole Building Systems LLC. He has 37 years’ experience providing engineering, design and construction-related services within the building industry. He strives to facilitate the integration of each element and discipline required in a project, with consideration for the life-cycle costs and benefits related to those elements, so that all the parts of a building work together in concert with each other and their surroundings.
Dennis is active at the local, state and national levels with various agencies and professional societies to help develop sustainable, integrated building design guidelines. As an ASHRAE Member, Dennis is the Vice Chairman for Research Promotion, serves as the Chairman of the Handbook Subcommittee tasked with developing handbook chapters for "Integrated Building Design" and is a member of the BIM Steering Committee.
He is also active in the US Green Building Council South Carolina Chapter, the South Carolina Office of School Facility Design Guide Committee and the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI).
Previously, Dennis was a Principal and Director of Practice Management for Liollio Architecture. Before that, he was an Owner and Managing Member of both a local engineering company and a construction company for 21 years.