No Playing Around: YMCA Fire Gives Design The Ultimate Smoke Bomb Test
After settling down at home to watch the 11 p.m. news, mechanical engineer David Andiorio was horrified to see live coverage of a fire at the Camp Hill, PA-based YMCA recreation center where he recently oversaw an hvac retrofit.
Andiorio, a performance assurance engineer at the Mechanicsburg, PA branch of the Buffalo Grove, IL-based Siemens Building Technologies, Inc., voluntarily dashed to the scene figuring that West Shore YMCA's maintenance director, Allan Allison and fire department officials might need his help manually operating the site's Siemens building automation system (bas).