Thursday, October 2, 2014
Waterloo
Engineering
graduate
Stephen
Carpenter
was
awarded
the
prestigious
Order
of
Canada on
September
12
at
Rideau
Hall
in
Ottawa.
Carpenter,
who
holds
both
a BASc
and
MASc
in
mechanical
engineering,
was
recognized
for
"for
his
visionary
leadership
in
the
development
and
stewardship
of
Canada's
green
building
industry."
Realizing
there
were
few
Canadian
firms
that
specialized
in
energy-efficient
building
design,
Carpenter
founded
Enermodal
Engineering
in
Waterloo
in
1981.
He
"cracked
the
code"
for
the
mathematical
modelling
of
energy
loss
through
building
components
such
as
windows
and
this
allowed
for
the
development
of
sophisticated
computer
modelling
tools
used
in
the
design
of
energy
efficient
buildings.
One
of
his
many
other
accomplishments
was
his
involvement
in
the creation
of
the
Canadian
version
of
the
LEED
rating
system.
The
Order
of
Canada,
established
by
the
Queen
in
1967
as
Canada's
highest
honour,
is
awarded
annually
for
a
lifetime
of
distinguished
service
to
a
particular
field
or
community.