Tag Archives: Scott Butcher

The Energy Symphony: Call Mac, Maybe

by Scott D. Butcher, FSMPS, CPSM Adapted from a presentation at the Central Penn Business Journal’s Real Estate & Development Symposium. “Call Me, Maybe” may have been omnipresent during the summer of 2012, but the title of this movement of our Energy Symphony is “Call Mac, Maybe.”  Why? Because maybe you should change your buying […]

The Energy Symphony: Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto

by Scott D. Butcher, FSMPS, CPSM Adapted from a presentation at the Central Penn Business Journal’s Real Estate & Development Symposium. Humans make errors, but robots are perfect, right? Well, if you can automate some functions, you can remove human error. In this case, error means forgetting to turn the lights off when you leave […]

The Energy Symphony: Phantom of the Opera (& Office)

by Scott D. Butcher, FSMPS, CPSM Adapted from a presentation at the Central Penn Business Journal’s Real Estate & Development Symposium. Our symphony continues with another dark movement. Plug load (electronics plugged into outlets) consumes 20-25% of a building’s energy use, whether or not the electronics are actually turned on!  You’ve probably heard the terms […]

The Energy Symphony: The Future's So Bright…I Gotta Wear Shades

by Scott D. Butcher, FSMPS, CPSM  Adapted from a presentation at the Central Penn Business Journal’s Real Estate & Development Symposium When thinking about building energy efficiency, here’s an idea: let’s all agree to have no more bright ideas!  He can have good ones and even great ones, but no more bright ones. Why?  As […]

The Energy Symphony

By Scott D. Butcher, FSMPS, CPSM Adapted from a presentation at the Central Penn Business Journal’s Real Estate & Development Symposium I was recently invited to speak about energy efficiency in buildings at the Central Penn Business Journal’s annual Real Estate & Development Symposium, which was held on September 3 at the Hershey Lodge (if […]

JDB Engineering Staff Lead USGBC Presentation & Tour at LEED Certified Historic Renovation

JDB Engineering vice presidents Thomas E. Leary, PE and Scott D. Butcher, FSMPS, CPSM, recently lead a program for the Central Pennsylvania Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).  The program was held at the York County Administrative Center – headquarters for the county government administration functions and home to 11 county agencies.  The […]

Design & Construction Trends: Where Are We Headed? Part III

By Scott D. Butcher, FSMPS, CPSM In covering the AEC industry trends for 2013 and beyond, we’ve had two posts and four trends.  The first post addressed Commoditization and Focus on Individual Team Members.  The second post  covered the War for Talent and Era of the Employee. In this post we’ll look at two more […]

Design & Construction Trends: Where Are We Headed? Part II

By Scott D. Butcher, FSMPS, CPSM In the last post I wrote about two of the trends impacting the AEC industry – Commoditization and Focus on Individual Team Members. This post continues the trends series, and focuses on two more areas related to staff: the War for Talent and the so-called Era of the Employee. […]

Design & Construction Trends: Where Are We Headed? Part I

By Scott D. Butcher, FSMPS, CPSM One of my favorite comedies is the film Groundhog Day, in which Bill Murray’s character wakes up on the same day over and over and over again, stuck in a cycle that not even death can break.  That is, until he gets things right.  In the design and construction […]

Celebrating Our Platinum Anniversary with York College of Pennsylvania

by Scott D. Butcher, FSMPS, CPSM JDB Engineering, Inc. is marking 20 years of successful projects with York College of Pennsylvania.  To celebrate, we created a short video that showcases some of the major projects that have been completed during this period, beginning with Wolf Hall or, as it was originally known, the Music, Arts […]