CIPHEX West 2016

Tim Keane

Legionella Risk Management


Tim Keane is a consulting engineer with Legionella Risk Management and is a nationally recognized expert on methods to control and minimize the risk of Legionella in building water systems. 39 years’ of field engineering experience including; new construction project engineering, facility engineering, water treatment consulting and the last 15 years’ of my field engineering focused on waterborne pathogen mitigation and control in building water systems. An original member of the ASHRAE 188 committee since 2005. Legionella experience includes; 1) leading engineering investigations into building specific outbreaks, product specific outbreak investigations, a community-wide outbreak, product field trials for Legionella control of plumbing components and biocides, 2) providing engineering assessments and when needed cost effective design modifications to building water systems to resolve Legionella risks, 3) presented training seminars across the country on plumbing system design and operation to minimize potential for waterborne pathogens 4) design review and commissioning for healthcare 5) author (co-author) of papers, a book, monograph guidelines on waterborne pathogens 6) voting committee member of ASHRAE standard 188 and 5) expert witness in Legionnaires’ disease litigations including spas, cooling towers, potable water, and fountains. He has worked with Healthcare, Commercial, Institutional, Industrial and Municipal facilities in the US and internationally.

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