Resume for: Robert G. Linford, Ph.D., PE.

Goals:

* Provide expert witness assistance to help solve legal conflicts involving the      HVAC industry, preferable through mediation.                                                * Provide HVAC consulting services to owners, facilities
   managers, and developers in the Construction Industry.
* Share with others the 41 years of experience and knowledge
   I have gained in:
-- HVAC System Design 
-- HVAC Construction and Service                                                                 -- HVAC Business Operations.

Specific areas of expertise:

* Expert witness involving contracting or HVAC related issues.                       * Due diligence prior to purchase or retrofit.
* Conceptual design development in retrofit and new
   construction.
* Design/build contractor selection or proposal evaluation.
* Problem solving in existing systems.
* Design review, evaluations, budgeting.                                                         * Analyzing contracting business operational problems.

 

Professional Experience:

1997-present Providing consulting services to the Real Estate and Construction Industry.

1995-1997 CEO of Linford Service Company. During this three-year period, Linford Service grew approximately 40% in both sales and profits. Linford Service was purchased by Group Maintenance America (GroupMAC) in November of 1997.

1976-1998 Vice-president, and then President and CEO of Linford Company. Linford Company has been involved in the design and installation of HVAC systems for a wide variety of facilities; high rise office buildings including the 42 Story 333 Bush Street in San Francisco; low rise office buildings including World Headquarters for Autodesk, and AMD; laboratories for Genentech, Raychem, Chiron, and others; hospitals; and shopping centers throughout the Western United States.

During the period from 1976 to 1996, Linford Company grew to become one of the leading Design/build HVAC companies in the United States, and, along with Linford Service Company, was selected in 1993 as the Contracting Business Magazine’s Contractor of the Year. In 1992, Linford Company won 3 of the four Contracting Business Magazine’s national awards for excellence in HVAC Design/build, an accomplishment that no else has achieved.

In 1996, Linford Company started to close its construction operations and, at present, is operating as a consulting engineering company.

1975-1986 President and Chief Engineer of Linford Engineering Company. This engineering group did the design for the Design/build projects sold by Linford Company. Some of the first jobs done by Linford Engineering were hospital ancillary, surgery, and patient areas. Later projects included high rise and low rise office buildings, hotels, shopping centers, industrial projects, laboratories, clean rooms, and environmental chambers. Linford Engineering was merged back into Linford Company in 1986.

1960-1976 Project Engineer, Project Manager, Chief Engineer at Linford Air & Refrigeration Company (later renamed Linford Company).

1957-1960 Teaching Assistant, Thermodynamics. University of Utah while earning a Ph.D. in Engineering.

Articles/Lectures:

* HPAC - Heating/Piping/Air Conditioning Magazine –“Central
Versus Floor by Floor HVAC Systems, Cost Analysis” - Cover
Story for October, 1989 (co-author with Steve Taylor, PE)
* HPAC – Heating/Piping/Air Conditioning Magazine - “HVAC
Retrofit Evaluations: Persuading Owners To Do It Right” -
November 1997
* HPAC – Heating/Piping/Air Conditioning Magazine - “HVAC
Retrofitting and Remodeling” – March 1996
* Energy & Environmental Management - “John Muir Hospital,
Part II, The People Factor” - Spring 1996
* Contracting Business Magazine - “Design/build Requirements”
– November 1991 Roundtable.
* Speaker at 4th Annual Design/Build Conference – New
Orleans, 1989 “The Importance of Single Source
Responsibility in Design/Build”
* Speaker at 1st Annual Engineering Conference - Washington
DC, 1992 “Is design/build a conflict of interest?”
* Speaker at ASHRAE National Symposium in Nashville 1985
“Variable Volume systems.”
* Speaker at several ASHRAE Meetings, San Francisco.
Design/build round table plus other programs.
* Speaker at ASHRAE CRC Meeting, San Jose, CA May 1995,
“Indoor Air Quality Forum”
* Guest Lecturer on HVAC at Stanford University and
University of California.

Professional Affiliations: (Present and Prior)

* ASHRAE – American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, & Air
Conditioning
* DBIA – Design Build Institute of America
* Sheet Metal &Air Conditioning Contractors Association
(SMACNA)
* Mechanical Contractors Association (MCA)
* American Subcontractors Association (ASA) (President of Bay
Area Chapter - 1991)
* National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE)
* American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
* TEC – The Executive Committee
* CIE – Contractor’s Information Exchange, (one of the
leading peer groups in our industry)

Other Activities:

* NSP – National Ski Patrol (23 years – patrol leader at
Alpine Meadows in 1983)
* Salvation Army Advisory Board in Oakland (20 years)
* Board of Consulting & Contributing Editors, HPAC Magazine
* Boy Scouts – Eagle, Troop leader, Fund Raiser – Chairman
1990 Bay Area Construction Industry Luncheon

Formal Education:

1956-1961 Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, University of Utah.
1952-1956 BS Chemical Engineering, Stanford University.

Professional Registrations:

Mechanical Engineer - California and Nevada, active.
Oregon, Washington, Utah, inactive.

Legal Experience:

Expert Witness in Cases involving the HVAC industry.