Nancy Hamill Governale

Education

Master of Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology
B.A. Geography, Environmental Planning, Southern Illinois University

Research Interests

Hamill Governale is a Licensed Architect in the State of Illinois, and a Certified Energy Manager with the Association of Energy Engineers. She has been teaching in the Illinois Institute of Technology Architecture Department since 1992 and facilitating Interprofessional Projects (IPRO) Program courses since 2002. She also spent eight years as Illinois Tech Chief Facilities Officer where she created master plans for annual Illinois Tech facilities improvements and long-range campus redesign, and solicited architectural proposals for university projects. She is currently President of Facilities Research, Inc., a private consulting firm specializing in creating, funding, and implementing sustainability and energy efficiency master plans for existing and new buildings and communities and completing energy and sustainability audits. Hamill Governale’s prior experience includes responsibility for creating and managing redevelopment plans for the Chicago Housing Authority, and Facilities and Public Works positions with the Villages of Skokie and Lombard, Illinois and private corporations.

Among Hamill Governale's major educational projects at Illinois Tech was creating a Zero Energy Lab, an experiential environment for IPRO students involved in low energy consuming design of existing vacant space. She and some IPRO teams developed the energy research center concept and created a low cost physical environment encompassing re-use, renewable, and energy monitoring to support zero energy research for students, faculty, and energy consumers.

Publications

"Design Incorporating Major Recycled Building Components," Construction Methods, Solar Wall, Plenum, Solar Thermal” outlining novel building design incorporating large scale steel structure re-use, 2004

“A New Perspective On Green Design," Today's Facility Manager, April 2008

"Big Picture Retrofitting," Distributed Energy, January/February 2008

"The Architect as Facility Manager," Illinois Institute of Technology, Master's Thesis, 1990

Projects

Hamill-Governale's numerous Illinois Tech IPRO projects include:

• Exploring Sustainability Concepts for a Power Plant Building in the Pacific Northwest
• Solar Mounting Design for Existing Buildings: multiple semesters leading to the SolarGami concept
• Illinois Tech Keating Hall: Solar Thermal Baseball Stadium, Geothermal, Solar PV and building enclosure improvements
• Oak Park Energy Efficiency and Carbon Reduction
• Sustainable Restaurant Development
• High Performance Green Homes
• Church & School Energy Efficiency and Financing Program
• Illinois Tech Sustainability Branding
• Building Greening & Adaptive Reuse for Queen of Peace High School
• Landscape for Building Energy Conservation IPRO
• Urban Heat: Investigating the Opportunities for Sustainable Development Using Concrete Products and Technologies
• Window Solar Control Product Development

Grants

Historic Preservation Save America’s Treasures Grant, Mundelein Center, Loyola University Chicago, 2012-2014

Multiple High Performance Green Building grants and new construction energy efficiency incentives for various buildings totaling approximately $2,000,000, 2004 to present.

Loyola Information Commons Operable Windows HVAC Interface Grant

Two-Phase Energy Audit grants; Loyola University Chicago (2001-2003) and Illinois Tech (2002-2004)

Three-Phase Energy Improvement Grant for Lighting Retrofit, Kent College of Law

PV Design and Installation for the Zero Energy Lab and Loyola Cudahy, ComEd (2004)

Illinois Tech Energy Improvement Program, Investment Grade Audit, $8,000,000 bond issue for improvements.

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