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Anastacia Michigan, PE, LEED
Anastacia Michigan is not afraid of challenges - especially
design challenges. That's good because, as she says, " Every
project offers a unique set of challenges. I enjoy determining
the solution that best serves our clients, especially if it's a
solution the client has not considered before. "
Age: 27
Hometown: Mullica Hill,
New Jersey
Alma Mater: Grove City
College
Someone I look up to in
the industry: David Marsh,
PE (Mechanical Practice
Lead, Arora Engineers, Inc.)
and Donna Guzewski, PE
(Plumbing Discipline Lead,
Arora Engineers, Inc.)
Fun fact about yourself: I
recently got engaged.
Michigan, PE, LEED, mechanical engineer at Arora Engineers
Inc., has served as the lead mechanical designer for large
projects in Pennsylvania including multimillion-dollar vertical
transportation improvements at Lehigh Valley International
Airport. Often she works in the transportation or education
sectors. The challenges at airports are especially unique,
she said.
" Airports are like cities, they never sleep! Design challenges
constantly keep you on your toes and developing a solution
that can be implemented without disturbing the airport's 24/7
function is an exciting challenge to take on. "
In the wake of the pandemic, she's seen a huge emphasis on
improving indoor air quality.
" When people arrive from all over the world and gather in
the terminals, it is understandable there would be a concern
about the spread of disease, " she said.
People can be congregating and sitting in a terminal for hours,
one design challenge is figuring out how to prevent disease
spread. Michigan authored a comprehensive whitepaper on
improvements to indoor air quality for disease mitigation and
led a nationwide webinar on the topic sponsored by the Airport
Consultants Council for over 130 industry attendees. She said
different technologies that can be used to improve indoor air
quality include bipolar ionization, UV light and independent
filtration systems. Sometimes an airport can upgrade their
HVAC or add new HVAC filtration equipment. Michigan helps
her clients weigh the costs and benefits.
At Lehigh Valley International Airport, design work was in
progress when the COVID-19 pandemic began. " Fortunately,
we were still in design, " she said, adding changes could be
made to increase outdoor air coming into the airport. The
system has a baseline mode and pandemic mode to increase
outside air to help filter out any pathogens.
Looking to airport design going forward, she said, " I would
like to see the continued implementation of disease-mitigating
technology. "
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