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Ginger Scoggins, P.E.

HPAC 'On The Air': Celebrating Women in Engineering, with Ginger Scoggins

March 21, 2022
*PODCAST* Meet ASHRAE's new president in this Q&A from last year with the accomplished mechanical engineer who started her own firm in 1997.

For Women's History Month, we recorded this show on March 11th, during National Women In Construction Week. Our guest was veteran mechanical engineer Ginger Scoggins, P.E., LEED AP, CEM, CxA, FASHRAE, a principal at Engineered Designs Inc., in Cary, NC, and an upcoming president of ASHRAE (2023-2024).

Scoggins had plenty to talk about from a variety of different perspectives, and we packed in as much as we could. A practicing mechanical engineer who started her own small business in 1997 to provide for her growing family, she was chosen last year to represent ASHRAE at the United Nations' COP26 Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland.

And that heady international assignment came even as Scoggins was chairing ASHRAE's key Building Headquarters Ad Hoc Committee, which oversaw the net zero renovation project that created the society's new showcase headquarters building outside of Atlanta.

Here, Scoggins also reflects on her experiences as a woman engineer over the past 30 years and discusses her responsibility now as a likely role model for young female engineers from other nations around the world.

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About the Author

Rob McManamy | Editor in Chief

An industry reporter and editor since 1987, McManamy joined HPAC Engineering in September 2017, after three years with BuiltWorlds.com, a Chicago-based media startup focused on tech innovation in the built environment. He has been covering design and construction issues for more than 30 years, having started at Engineering News-Record (ENR) in New York, before becoming its Midwest Bureau Chief in 1990. In 1998, McManamy was named Editor-in-Chief of Design-Build magazine, where he served for four years. He subsequently worked as an editor and freelance writer for Building Design + Construction and Public Works magazines.

A native of Bronx, NY, he is a graduate of both the University of Virginia, and The John Marshall Law School in Chicago.

Contact him at [email protected].