Appin’s President, Mr. Grant Wichenko, P. Eng., receiving the BACnet Rottweiler Award at the Facilities Management Conference in Las Vegas in the fall of 2010.  Mr. Wichenko sits on a number of ASHRAE committees relating to this work.  He is the longest-sitting Consultant Member of SSPC 135 – the committee charged with development of the BACnet standard and has recently taken on the Chairmanship of the Applications Working Group for this committee.  He is also a member of SGPC 13 – charged with development of the DDC Guideline Specification.  He is actively participating in ASHRAE 201P – ASHRAE’s committee for the Smart Grid.