HVAC firms can’t afford to not have women in charge of the workforce, in management, out on job sites, in facilities, as equipment manufacturer representatives, and as company owners
This month, we at Engineered Systems magazine celebrate and highlight the winners of our 20 to Watch: Women in HVAC contest. Each of these professionals have unique stories to share that each of us could learn from.
Over the years, going back to April 1996, I have used this column to raise awareness about the value women and minorities bring to the entire building industry. This awareness wasn’t obvious to me until I became involved with management at a consulting engineering firm years earlier. Prior to being promoted, I never took the time early in my career to take note that there were very few women in the HVAC industry. Promoted to the position of manager of HVAC engineering in the late 1970s, I became attentive to the lack of women on the consulting side of the business as well as the reduced pay scale of the women who were employed as engineers.