The Whole Building System’s team was excited to be able to join founder M. Dennis Knight as he was installed as the 2024-2025 ASHRAE President in Indianapolis last week!

His theme for the Society Year, "Empowering Our Workforce: Building a Sustainable Future", is focused on developing resources and solutions to the projected gap between those choosing a career in engineering and the growing demand for design solutions facing our industry over the next century.

Please join the entire WBS team in congratulating Dennis in this capstone achievement to his decades of service to ASHRAE!

Buildings, communities and organizations play a leading role in supporting our health and well-being, as well as our collective ability to prepare for and respond to global health challenges like the one we’re experiencing now.

Whole Building Systems is recognized by Working Well for achieving Platinum status in wellness culture for meeting best practice standards in workplace wellbeing. The Platinum recognition is awarded to organizations that provide employees with a healthy and supportive culture to promote optimal wellbeing.

M. Dennis Knight was interviewed during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic by numerous news outlets. Check out his Covid-19 long hair and beard!

M. Dennis Knight was interviewed by Joanna Turpin with the HVAC Contractor Newsletter.

Whole Building Systems is excited at the opportunity to present recent research on the impact of buildings on occupant health and well-being. Also featured are simple solutions that can improve the health of homes, offices, and many other building types.

Click here to register for the webinar.

USGBC South Carolina hosted a tour of the LEED-NC Certified Beach Club at the Charleston Harbor Resort and Marina on March 8th, 2018.  Susan Collins from Whole Building Systems, LLC presented on the LEED processes in place that helped the project meet its certification goals.  WBS is proud to have provided LEED Administration, Energy Modeling, Incentive Management, and Commissioning services on this project.   

Susan Collins has recently earned her WELL Accredited Professional (WELL AP) credential.  WELL is the first building rating system dedicated exclusively to building impacts on the health, productivity and well-being of occupants.  Through this credentialing process Susan demonstrated mastery of the eight Concepts (similar to credit categories in LEED) found in the WELL certification system: Air, Water, Nourishment, Light, Fitness, Comfort, and Innovation.  

Congratulations to Whole Building Systems CEO M. Dennis Knight on receiving the National Institute of Building Sciences Member Award at the Building Innovation 2018 in January.

The Charleston Healthy Business Challenge recently awarded Whole Building Systems and other progressive companies awards for their scoring under the 2017 Healthy Business Challenge at an event in the Riley Park Club in Charleston, SC.

Joel McKellar has recently completed his Living Future Accreditation, a credentialing  process for professionals developed by the International Living Future Institute which oversees the Living Building Challenge (LBC) certification program.   

Through a mixture of direct LBC project support, volunteerism, and educational programs Joel completed the 70 hours of training required to earn his accreditation.  Areas of emphasis in the training included material health and transparency research, net-positive energy and water design strategies, and social equity processes for design and construction.  

Joel McKellar, LFA, LEED AP, CBCP has dedicated his career to optimizing the performance of buildings from design through occupancy. 

He has extensive experience in sustainable design consultation and project management (7+ million square feet), commissioning (125,000+ sf), energy management and auditing (12+ million sf) and LEED and Living Building Challenge certification administration (5+ million sf). 

M. Dennis Knight, PE, attended the annual National Institute of Building Science conference in Washington DC this week.  Mr. Knight is a member of a committee convening to write an Owner’s Guide for BIM (Building Information Modeling).  As the Chair of the BIM Multi-Disciplinary Task Group for AHSRAE, Mr. Knight is a liaison to NIBS and the Building Smart Alliance working to advance the adoption and integration of BIM in the AEC industry.

Whole Building Systems reached the Palmetto Tier of the 2014-2015 Charleston Green Business Challenge.  The program provides scoring for how businesses are run along the following categories:  Energy and Water Stewardship, Waste Reduction, Green and Local Purchasing, and Healthiness in the Workplace.  

M. Dennis Knight opens ASHRAE Energy Modeling Conference in Atlanta, Georgia

As Chairman of the ASHRAE annual Energy Modeling Conference, M. Dennis Knight, Founder and CEO of Whole Building Systems opened the event by introducing the prolific Dr. Story Musgrave, who gave the keynote address.  Musgrave who has had an extraordinary career including being a fighter pilot, a NASA astronaut, a trauma surgeon and has earned seven graduate degrees, encouraged the audience to seek out new opportunities and apply their life experiences to solve the complex issues we face today.

Whole Building Systems today announced that CEO M. Dennis Knight, P.E., has been elected a Fellow from the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) by the board of directors, the highest honor they bestow. Being designated an ASHRAE Fellow is an honor that recognizes distinction in the science of environmental technology and advancement of the built environment. Fellows are chosen because of their achievement as a researcher, designer, consultant, educator or engineer and their dedication to sharing knowledge with others in the industry.

Whole Building Systems, a highly regarded engineering and energy efficiency consulting firm that serves commercial, governmental, educational, and historic preservation sectors, today announced that it recently completed an Energy Survey and Engineering Analysis of the Nathaniel Russell House Museum, located in historic Charleston, SC.

The findings of WBS' analysis were made public at the recent Sustainability & Southern Historic Preservation Conference, and M. Dennis Knight, PE, CxA – Whole Building Systems’ CEO – made the presentation, which focused on the balance that must be struck between historic building preservation and contemporary technologies for heating and cooling.

WBS today announced that it is deeply engaged with the Charleston County School District (CCSD) to make its new and existing buildings more sustainable, safe, and energy-efficient.

CCSD has recently built many new schools based on high-performance energy criteria. Today, Whole Building Systems (WBS) is performing energy modeling and analysis to help CCSD to bring the existing, older schools up to the same high-performance levels of the new construction, while improving the indoor environmental quality in all facilities.