Colombia.
In the framework of the World Congress of Energy Engineer that took place last September in the city of Washington, the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE, for its acronym in English) presented the Engineer of the Year award in the Latin American region to the Colombian Andrés Velásquez.
This recognition was given for its contribution to the sustainable development of the energy industry through efficient air conditioning, ventilation and cooling solutions and the implementation of thermal districts and alternative energies.
This recognition, which for the first time a Colombian receives, responds to the work that Andrés Velásquez has been developing for more than ten years at the head of BT Consultores; company that has implemented energy use and production systems in more than a thousand public and private sector projects such as the Empresas Públicas building in Medellín, the rebuilt Palace of Justice in Cali, clinics and hospitals in Colombia and Latin America, buildings of the financial and hotel sector, and the first Thermal District in Latin America that was built in the sector of La Alpujarra in Medellín, among others, where through the optimization of resources in the air conditioning, ventilation and cooling systems has decreased energy consumption and therefore the environmental impact.
"Through concrete and real actions we have developed and implemented new engineering technologies that through efficient and conscious systems contribute to reducing the carbon footprint," said Andrés Velásquez, Manager of BT Consultores.
"We will continue to positively impact energy projects in the country, so through an alliance with Celsia; energy subsidiary of the Argos Group, we will develop distributed energy systems from the development of thermal districts that will allow us to build urban cooling systems for cities that will optimize the use of energy in public and residential constructions, providing a solution to the country's energy problem", Velásquez concluded.
Velásquez is a mechanical engineer from the Universidad de los Andes and a master's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Guanajuato. For more than 30 years he has developed different activities in the engineering of air conditioning and mechanical ventilation, as well as the implementation and design of air conditioning and mechanical ventilation systems (AAVM) for health projects because he is one of the few Latin Americans with the HFDP (Healthcare Facilities Design Proffesional) certification of ASHRAE ( American Society of Heating, Air Conditioning and Ventilation Engineers), which enables you internationally to design AAVM systems for institutions of this type.
Photo: From left to right: Salas, President of THE PREPA Award Committee; Andrés Ortuno, PrePA's Deputy Director of Development for Latin America; Andrés Velásquez, and Larry Good, Director of the ESA International Committee.
