Jalal Avades,
PE, CxA, CEM, LEED® AP (BD+C)
President
Jalal has 40 years of mechanical engineering experience including more than 10 years of teaching experience at the university level. He worked on many challenging and unique projects for the government, industrial, automotive, health care and institutional clients and is licensed Professional Engineer to practice engineering in eight states including the States of Arizona, California, Michigan and Nevada.
Jalal is a Certified Energy Manager (CEM) and had completed energy auditing for many different project types.
Jalal is a Certified Commissioning Authority (CxA) with a long list of commissioning services along with third party verification representing building owners and developers
Jalal is a LEED Accredited Professional (LEED-AP) with more than a decade of involvement in the USGBC programs; managed and worked on many projects pursuing different USGBC LEED® Certification programs throughout the country. When it comes to the sustainability and green building design, Jalal would help in LEED® Administration/Facilitation, Building Energy Modeling, Building Commissioning, Energy Auditing and High Performance Building Design.
Jalal is a Past Member at the USGBC - Arizona Chapter Board of Directors and a Past Member of the Central Arizona Governing Council, Chair of the Communication Committee, past chair of the Research and Development committee, and past member of the education committee (Detroit and S. Nevada chapters).
Jalal presented LEED® Knowledge formal Seminars with hundreds of attendees. As a speaker Jalal presented the USGBC's different LEED® programs along with green building design and the sustainability in multiple professional events throughout the world.