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Consulting-Specifying Engineer 40 Under 40 Doug Nadeau, PE, LEED AP, 36 Principal, New England Engineering, Albany, N.Y. Worcester Polytechnic Institute, BS in Mechanical Engineering, BS in Physics, MS in Fire Protection Engineering Lincoln Pearce, PE, LEED AP, 34 Associate Principal, KJWW Engineering Consultants, Rock Island, Ill. Iowa State, BS in Mechanical Engineering earce is known for a lot of things. Among others, he is a drummer in various rock bands, including one with a bunch of other engineers from his office, called Crome Naked Lady. The former Iowa State club racquetball player also is known for his mechanical mind that helps engineer mixed-use buildings that are energy efficient. He worked on the $50 million, 280,000-sq.-ft Harper College Avante Center that houses various science and emerging technology classrooms. The three-wing building won a Plumbing & Mechanical magazine award for its ability to meter energy usage and its energy recovery system that could be individually switched according to the professor’s lesson plans to make things like dissecting frogs a lot less smelly but still efficient. As a project manager and lead mechanical engineer, he made installing a 7-story glass wall in Federal Court House in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a reality. His advice: “Understand the difference between what you actually know and what you think you know.” Pearce, who is married with two children, also advocates volunteering, something he’s done for to help children with muscular dystrophy. T hree years ago, Nadeau cofounded New England Engineering, but he still finds time to coach his oldest daughter’s softball team. His philosophy for both arenas: “Work to build upon fundamentals and establish your foundation, and make sure to have fun along the way. Reward comes from knowledge, hard work, and constantly trying to better oneself.” Nadeau specializes in government projects, and private and commercial apartments and office buildings. He worked on the 25-year strategic fire protection master plan for the Data Center at the University at Albany and developed the 10-year fire protection master plan for the 35-building Elmira Correctional Facility in New York. Nadeau is in the process of coauthoring a book on fire protection engineering and risk management. Aside from working and coaching, he supports his three daughters by attending all other school and sporting events, offering as much of his time as possible. Nadeau, who thinks Larry Bird is the single greatest basketball player of all time, is married to his high school sweetheart, MaryJo, and has three daughters, Gillian, 10, Kendall, 9, and Keeghan, 7. P Andrew Purtell, 25 Application Engineer, Kidde-Fenwal Inc., a UTC Fire & Security Co., Ashland, Mass. Worchester Polytechnic Institute, BS in Mechanical Engineering, MS in Fire Protection Engineering Greg Quinn, PE, LEED AP, 36 Principal, AEI/Affiliated Engineers Inc., Madison, Wis. University of Wisconsin, BS in Mechanical Engineering P urtell has traveled the world from Singapore to Brazil for his fire suppression company, protecting hazards from data centers to deep fat fryers. “We get called in for the tough ones,” Purtell said. “Nothing is straight out of the book when they call us, so we have to get creative to make the fire system work.” His projects include handling the marine systems for the Canadian Coast Guard, which has required Purtell to go on various ships to design safety precautions in tight quarters. He also worked on a project for the U.S. Social Security Administration to protect computer vaults that store personal information. Purtell attributes his success to his mother, a pre-school teacher who encouraged him to obtain a master’s degree like she did. A new homeowner with his girlfriend, Meredith Craig, Purtell enjoys being a “Boston homer” when it comes to rooting for sports teams and loves playing Guitar Hero. He already has a laundry list of projects for their new home, including a two-level deck he plans on building. Q uinn has helped build some of the most sophisticated research and medical facilities in the country. He worked on the National Institutes of Health’s Research Hospital, the premier institution in the United States that diagnoses, studies, and treats infectious diseases. The challenge, Quinn said, was creating a sustainable building that could adapt for yet-unknown disease and have the ability to convert from a research hospital to an in-patient care facility. As the principal project manager, Quinn also oversees the new Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago, a 1.1-million-sq.-ft, 276-bed pediatric in-patient facility. He also worked as the construction project manager on Amgen’s Helix biotech research campus in Seattle. The four-lab building and central utility plant were engineered to be almost earthquake-proof by being set on base isolators, a neoprene-like rubber material that allows the building to move up to 18 in. Quinn also developed the curriculum for the University of Wisconsin College of Engineering’s Construction Engineering and Management program’s mechanical systems course, one of only six in the nation, which he has taught and supervised. Quinn is avid distance runner who has completed five half-marathons. He has two daughters with his wife, Denise, his high school sweetheart. 28 Consulting-Specifying Engineer • JULY 2008

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