Professional Qualifications and Experience

KENDALL W. WHITE, P.E., CEM

Area of Expertise

Kendall W. White is the President and owner of Criterium - White Engineers, a consulting engineering practice serving central Iowa and the city of Des Moines since 1999. Mr. White is a licensed Professional Engineer in the states of Iowa and Minnesota with over 20 years experience in engineering design and management. He has been awarded the Certified Energy Manager distinction from the Association of Energy Engineers. In addition to commercial building and residential investigative, structural, and environmental engineering, he has specific experience in instrumentation and control systems, building environmental system evaluation and design, process control and optimization, energy and economic analysis, and project management. Criterium - White Engineers provides industrial, commercial, and residential clients with engineering design, consulting, and environmental services. The firm also provides inspections for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to access the condition of disaster-damaged housing.

Qualifications

Since starting his firm, Mr. White has provided Property Condition Assessments, Phase I Environmental Assessments, Structural Inspections, Home Inspections, and Energy Studies for over 200 commercial and residential properties. This includes:

Property Condition Assessment for eight shopping centers, totaling 942,000 s.f., in Des Moines, Quad Cities, and Dubuque, IA.
Property Condition Assessment for a 500 unit apartment complex in Minneapolis, MN
Environmental Site Assessment for 86-acre and 135-acre shopping mall facilities in Madison, WI
Construction Quality Inspection for 17-story residential building in Des Moines, IA
Energy evaluation for renovated office space in downtown Des Moines, IA
Property Condition Assessment for seven office buildings, totaling 480,000 s.f., in Minneapolis, MN.
Energy and Waste Management Studies for public school buildings in Iowa
Structural Assessment for 18,000 s.f. condominium building in Des Moines, IA

Prior to forming his own firm, Mr. White has had a broad range of senior level positions. As Senior Project Manager for Compressor Controls Corporation in Des Moines, IA he was responsible for planning, monitoring and controlling large key projects. As Senior Application Consultant, he provided application and engineering support for control strategy definition, proposal verification, economic analysis, energy and thermodynamic analysis, on-site surveys and field problem analysis.

Earlier in his career, Mr. White was responsible for building environmental and power systems energy analysis and conservation studies, building environmental systems specification, design and layout, and gained experience with computer based energy analysis and simulation programs.

Education and Affiliations

BSME, Kansas State University, 1979
MSME, University of Wisconsin, 1980
CEM, Association of Energy Engineers, 1999