H&A Announces New CGD, OSP & LEED Green Associate Certifications

May 2, 2011

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H&A Architects & Engineers, a Richmond-based design firm, announces the following new certifications: 

Senior Mechanical Engineer, Stefana Petrova, passed the Certified GeoExchange Designer (CGD) exam. The CGD program is designed to recognize professionals who have demonstrated high lev­els of experience, competence, proficiency, and ethical fit­ness in applying the principles and practices of geothermal heat pump design and related disciplines.

The CGD certification is grant­ed by the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) and sponsored by the Geothermal Heat Pump Consortium® (GHPC).

Petrova is the first engineer at H&A to earn this distinction.

Electrical Engineer, Trevor Gooding, RCDD, passed the Outside Plant Design (OSP) exam and is now a BICSI Registered Communications Distribution (RCDD)/OSP Designer.

The RCDD/OSP Designer is a telecommunications professional who is able to demonstrate pro­ficiency in outside plant design, including: OSP right-of-way and route design; OSP space design (maintenance holes, ducts, vaults); underground, di­rect-buried, and aerial plant design; OSP cabling hardware; and OSP grounding, bonding, and electrical protection systems.

Electrical Engineer, Andrew Fleenor, passed the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design® (LEED) Green Associate exam.

The LEED Green Associate is a professional that denotes basic knowledge of green design, construc­tion and operations.

H&A has six LEED Green Associates on staff.

Each of the newly certified employees works at the firm’s Glen Allen office location.