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Consulting-Specifying Engineer 40 Under 40 Dan Christman, PE, LEED AP, 37 Vice President, Director of Entertainment, X-nth, Apoka, Fla. Penn State, BS in Electrical Engineering njoy swimming with the dolphins at SeaWorld’s Discovery Cove, or Toy Story Mania at Disney World? Thank Christman. He’s the engineer who helps make entertainment projects a reality with clients like Busch Entertainment Corp., Universal Studios, Hard Rock, and Walt Disney World. “It’s fun to do the impossible,” Christman said. Designing rides and roller coasters, water parks, animal life-support systems, shows, and power distribution for low- and medium-voltage systems is his specialty. The challenge, Christman said, is creating a safe environment that is unique. Christman also serves as a director on the International Board of the Themed Entertainment Assn. and is a regular speaker at various conferences across the country, including the University of Florida’s TREEO Conference, the Architectural Engineering Institute, and the Florida Engineering Education Conference. He’s currently working as project executive for a Dubai, United Arab Emirates, development team that is creating theme parks in the Middle East. A “sports junkie,” Christman enjoys playing golf and mud volleyball in a farm field to help the March of Dimes, and watching his beloved Steelers and Penguins. He also likes going to the parks he helped create with his wife, Rachel, and 9-month-old son, Connor. Cynthia Cogil, PE, LEED AP, 36 Principal, Senior, SmithGroup, Washington, D.C. University of Kansas, BS in Architectural Engineering Penn State, MS in Architectural Engineering s a child, Cogil jokes she was a tomboy who liked woodworking, mechanical drafting, and playing floor hockey. Her inquisitive mind has helped her adapt to any situation. Cogil’s projects include the Chesapeake Bay Foundation Philip Merrill Environmental Center in Annapolis, Md., the first LEED Platinum building in the United States, and the $35 million International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. Three years ago, Cogil faced the biggest obstacle of her life when she had surgery for a brain tumor and became deaf in her right ear. Despite the challenges, Cogil has used her experiences, which have left her extremely sensitive to light and sound, to design the James Lee Sorenson Language and Communications Center at Gallaudet University, which helps the deaf and hard of hearing. She also is working on the National Intrepid Center of Excellence for Traumatic Brain Injury in Bethesda, Md. “Having a traumatic brain event has helped me become an internal advocate, to be sensitive to their symptoms,” she said. She enjoys gardening and spending time with her husband, Oliver Baumann. E A Jim Corsiglia, PE, SE, 36 Principal, Harley Ellis Devereaux, Southfield, Mich. Michigan Technological University, BS in Civil Engineering orsiglia is always on the go, from snowshoeing to water skiing. “We are almost never home,” Corsiglia said about his high school prom date and wife, Dawn, and children, Ava, 5, and Aiden, 10 months. “We are always doing something, from four-wheeling to jet skiing to ice fishing.” His ability to fast-track projects and be a building information modeling (BIM) innovator has helped Corsiglia, a structural engineer, quickly excel. He used BIM to electronically detail the 250,000-sq.-ft Ambulatory Care Center for William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Mich., which drastically accelerated the project. He also completed work on the University of Michigan Health System’s new $115 million Cardiovascular Hospital that includes a complicated winter garden composed of vertical trusses and a king post roof structure. Corsiglia converted the firm to Revit, a multidiscipline 3-D modeling program, and is the first member of the structural engineering department to be awarded the Model Law Structural Engineer by the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying. He serves as the Technical Committee Chairman for the Structural Engineers Assn. of Michigan and volunteers with Cub Scouts and school programs. His advice: Stay involved in your community and give back to others. Peter D’Antonio, PE, LEED AP, 39 Founder and President, PCD Engineering Services Inc., Boulder, Colo. University of Maryland, BS in Civil Engineering University of Colorado, MS in Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering ’Antonio jokes he started his own company, an Energy Star service provider, by accident. “It wasn’t on purpose, it just sort of happened,” said D’Antonio, who was drumming for a rock band called Moonshine Moses at the time. “I was doing contract work and one day it turned into a company.” That was back in 2000. D’Antonio still takes time to perform as a percussionist at the Boulder Broadway Co., but is focusing more on sustainable mechanical and electrical design, energy management, and integrated building solutions. A certified energy manager, D’Antonio made the Denver Hudson’s Bay Centre more efficient by connecting it to the city’s steam grid. To heat the building, hot water is fed into the city’s chilled water coils during the morning and then reverted back to chilled water coils later in the day. He also recently remodeled his home into a net-zero energy house that generates extra electricity he can sell back to the utility company. D’Antonio, who has a 7-year-old son, Tristan, with wife, Carla, has won multiple renewable energy design awards and serves on several boards of directors, including Consulting-Specifying Engineer, U.S. Green Building Council, Assn. of Energy Engineers, and ASHRAE. C D Consulting-Specifying Engineer • JULY 2008 21

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