Wausau Window and Wall Systems: Names market managers to assist with government, healthcare and educational projects

Wausau, Wis. — To better support its customers, Wausau Window and Wall Systems announces three market managers with expertise in specific building applications: Lisa May specializing in healthcare projects, Steve Gille in education, and Tom Mifflin in governmental and military.

Each market manager will continue to provide pre-bid design and technical support, as well as engineering services. In addition, Wausau’s Vice President of Engineering Gene Pagel, says, “Lisa, Steve and Tom will each take an active role in sharing their expertise with building owners, architects and contractors in these market categories. We want to do more than inform them of Wausau’s high-performance products; we want to help these leaders anticipate and respond to the performance challenges, code and regulatory compliance issues, aesthetic selections, and other trends and considerations that are unique to these building types.”

Lisa May, Healthcare Market Manager

May works with hospitals, medical centers, clinics and other healthcare facilities to offer technical assistance, sustainable design input, thermal modeling, detailing and specification review to design professionals nationwide. Recently, May has been helping facility designers and owners understand the importance operable windows can play in providing natural light and ventilation, as well as energy-efficiency and emergency ventilation for patient rooms in case of fire.

She also instructs architects and other in AIA/CSI-approved continuing education programs addressing thermal and acoustical performance, as well as window and curtainwall selection. As part of these educational programs, she shares Wausau’s project case studies such as Johns Hopkins Hospital’s clinical building in Baltimore, Florida Villages Regional Hospital, University of Colorado’s newest medical research complex and Gateway Medical Center in Tennessee. May can be contacted via e-mail at lmay@wausauwindow.com.

Steve Gille, Education Market Manager

From kindergarten classrooms to post-doctoral studies’ research centers, Wausau’s window systems provide and control daylighting, while allowing the outside views that keep students and professors connected with their campuses and communities. In addition, window systems play an important role in classroom acoustics, energy performance, natural ventilation and high indoor air quality. These combined benefits have been recognized as not only contributing to facility cost savings, but also to improving the health of students and faculty, and to increasing students’ test scores.

During his 25-year career with Wausau, Gille has helped design professionals, school districts and university facility managers create effective and imaginative learning environments. For the past decade, he has developed a robust offering of standard products that feature Wausau’s high-performance quality, while respecting the accelerated timeframes and limited budgets of constructing educational spaces. Recent project examples include California’s Tiger Woods Learning Center, New York’s Syracuse University’s School of Public Communications, Indiana’s University of Notre Dame’s renovation and expansion projects, Colorado’s first private school building listed as Gold-level certified by the U.S. Green Council’s LEED® Green Building Rating System™, and University of California-Santa Barbara’s Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, registered at LEED-Platinum, the highest level. Gille can be reached directly at sgille@wausauwindow.com.

Tom Mifflin, Governmental/Military Market Manager

Prior to joining Wausau in 1996, Mifflin was a design engineer for a government subcontractor working on classified projects for the Naval Facilities Command. At Wausau, he has been involved with high-security and blast-mitigating window systems for new construction and renovation projects such as Pacific Beacon Naval Base San Diego, Air National Guard facilities in North Dakota and Pennsylvania, the University of Pennsylvania biocontainment facility, and U.S. federal buildings in Iowa, Nebraska, New Hampshire and Virginia. Most recently, he has been involved with Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) and energy-improvement projects.

Mifflin frequently is called on to review blast hazard mitigating designs to create elegant, quiet, daylight-filled, environmentally responsible, cost-effective buildings that protect occupants without resembling the aesthetic of a concrete bunker. He draws from years of experience interpreting the government facility standards and security design criteria to ensure windows or curtainwall that are capable of meeting the specified level of protection. He can be contacted via e-mail at tmifflin@wausauwindow.com.

To learn more about Wausau’s business practices, products and tools, please visit http://www.WausauWindow.com or call 877-678-2983.

Nationally recognized for its innovative expertise, Wausau Window and Wall Systems is an industry leader in engineering window and curtainwall systems for commercial and institutional construction applications. For more than 50 years, Wausau has worked closely with architects, building owners and contractors to realize their vision for aesthetic beauty, sustainability and lasting value, while striving to maintain the highest level of customer service, communication and overall satisfaction. Wausau is a part of Apogee Enterprises, Inc., a publicly held, U.S. corporation.

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