ASHRAETechnology Awards
HVAC and building-systems performance in real, occupied buildings — commercial, health care, education, industrial and residential categories.
- Reach
- Chapter → region → society
- Run by
- ASHRAE
- Disciplines
- MEP
Who enters
The primary entrant must be a current ASHRAE member who had a significant role in the project, and the building must have been in successful operation for at least a year at the time of entry — so entries report measured performance, not a design-stage model.
Categories include
A sample, not the full list — these programs restructure their categories between years. ASHRAE publishes the current one.
- Commercial Buildings
- Institutional Buildings (education)
- Health Care Facilities
- Industrial Facilities
- Public Assembly
- Residential
The route, start to finish
- 01Enter at ASHRAE chapter level
- 02Chapter winners advance to the region
- 03Regional winners advance to Society level
What it signals when you’re hiring
Metro Associates’ own read, not ASHRAE’s.
The measured-performance requirement is what makes this one useful. An ASHRAE Technology Award means the building was instrumented and the numbers held up after occupancy — so the engineer behind it has had to answer for real performance, not a design-stage energy model.
Roles whose work ends up in an entry like this
- Senior MEP Engineer
- Mechanical Design Engineer
- Commissioning Engineer
- Energy Modeller
We staff the firms that enter. We don’t enter.
Metro Associates is a recruiting firm, and a recruiting firm is not eligible for an engineering award. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or a winner of the Technology Awards. The ASHRAE name and mark belong to ASHRAE, shown here to identify the program it runs. What we do is place the engineers whose work goes into entries like it.