Mr. Quinlan is a principal of ESI and one of its senior HVAC project engineers and Energy Conservation specialists.  Since co-founding ESI in 1988, Mr. Quinlan has been responsible for project management, engineering, field surveys and analysis for many of ESI’s diverse projects in hospitals, office buildings, and private industry, including central chilled water plants, boiler plants, energy management systems, Engineering-support for LEED projects, and numerous Retro-commissioning projects.

For projects where ESI has been the lead firm (projects not spearheaded by the architect), Mr. Quinlan has performed the work of the Project Manager responsible for Engineering, Design, Bid Solicitation, Construction Services, Inspections and Acceptance Testing, and Final Sign-off at the completion of the construction.

Mr. Quinlan has been the Lead Engineer on numerous Energy Studies, many of which received funding by the local utility companies.  Once these studies were completed and projects were approved, ESI provided the stamped engineering documents required to construct the work.

Mr. Quinlan received a Master of Science degree from the Building Technologies program at MIT in 1980.  While completing his graduate thesis, Mr. Quinlan investigated the use of ice for an off-peak cooling system and evaluated the performance of the MIT Solar 5 building for the Department of Energy.  Mr. Quinlan is a member of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), the American Solar Energy Society (ASES), and the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA).