DSA PSCC Member, Steve Taylor
As a member of the PSCC, Steve serves as a Mechanical Engineer Representative.
Steve Taylor has over 40 years of commercial and institutional HVAC system design experience, the last 12 with design/build contractors before starting Taylor Engineering in 1995.
Mr. Taylor is a Fellow of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) and one of very few to have received all ASHRAE’s top awards for technical achievement. From 1983 to 1997 and 2010 to present, he was/is a member of the committee responsible for ASHRAE Standard 90.1 “Energy Conservation in New Non-Residential Buildings,” a standard that is the basis of energy conservation codes throughout the country. He chaired the Standard 90.1 HVAC Systems and Equipment subcommittee and was the principal author of the HVAC sections of Standard 90.1-1989 and 90.1-1999. Mr. Taylor served in a similar role with the California Energy Commission’s Professional Advisory Group and was a principal author of the HVAC and Ventilation sections of California’s current Title 24 Energy Standards.
Mr. Taylor is a past chair and eight-year member of the committee responsible for ASHRAE Standard 62 “Ventilation for Acceptable Indoor Air Quality,” the basis of most State building codes. He is the past vice chair and five-year member of the Indoor Environmental Quality Technical Advisor Group developing IEQ requirements for the USGBC LEED Green Building Rating System.
Mr. Taylor is a nationally known building automation system expert. He is the author of an ASHRAE sponsored textbook on the Fundamentals of HVAC Control Systems and served as chair of ASHRAE’s Control Theory & Application Technical Committee 1.4 and ASHRAE’s Guideline Committee 13 Specifying Building Automation Systems. Recently he founded and is chair of ASHRAE’s Guideline 36 High Performance Sequences of Operation for HVAC Systems.
Mr. Taylor has authored over 40 peer reviewed ASHRAE Journal articles and technical papers and co-writes the monthly ASHRAE Journal Engineer’s Notebook column.
With his unique combination of HVAC system design, control system design, energy conservation, indoor air quality, and commissioning expertise along with his practical, hands-on design/build experience, Mr. Taylor brings a unique perspective to any HVAC system project.