Breathing Easier, with Rob McManamy

*NEW PODCAST* As 2025 draws to a close, HPAC's editor takes stock of the progress, promise, and "golden" opportunity now fueling generational change in indoor environmental quality. 
Dec. 2, 2025

As the year draws to a close, HPAC's Editor-in-Chief takes stock of the progress, promise, and "golden" opportunity now fueling the potential for generational change in indoor environmental quality. 

Click below to listen to his November-December editorial...

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].

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