Hartman is principal of The Hartman Company, which was founded in 1972 as a high technology engineering firm, specializing in applying computer technology to commercial and industrial building control and energy management. Hartman has played an important role in pioneering the use of advanced computer-based energy management control strategies. He continues to place a strong emphasis on the use of modeling for evaluating potential improvements, and has developed a number of in-house programs to model a variety of energy and financial improvement scenarios. E-mail him at tomh@hartmanco.com
The latest innovations will disappoint unless the entire project team adapts to work together in a new way that will embrace new technology and help the owner make the most of a system’s potential.