ASPE 2016

Tim Keane




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. He has ?39 years of field engineering experience including new construction project engineering, facility engineering, and water treatment consulting, and for the last 15 years he has focused on waterborne pathogen mitigation and control in building water systems. Tim has been an original member of the ASHRAE 188 Committee since 2005. His Legionella experience includes leading engineering investigations into building-specific outbreaks, product-specific outbreaks, a community-wide outbreak, and product field trails for Legionella control of plumbing components and biocides; providing engineering assessments and, when needed, cost-effective design modifications to building water systems to resolve Legionella risks; presenting training seminars across the country on plumbing system design and operation to minimize the potential for waterborne pathogen growth; design review and commissioning for healthcare facilities; authoring and co-authoring papers, a book, and monograph guidelines on waterborne pathogens; and being an 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 U.S. and internationally. In 2012 he gave a presentation at the American Water Works Association (AWWA) Water Quality Technology Conference on an issue that is front-page news today. The presentation was titled “Case Studies of Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreaks Related to Municipal Water Disruptions.” His article “ASHRAE 188: The Domino Effect” discusses the potential impact that ASHRAE 188 will have. Tim has presented at numerous ASPE conferences and meetings including National and Chapter events. In 2016 he presented at the International Emerging Techno

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