Behind Ivy Covered Walls: An Engineer's Tales

Behind Ivy Covered Walls, An Engineer's Tales, is a collection of more than fifty short stories from the author's first fifty years in the engineering profession. It offers behind the scenes insight of a large university at the support structure that encompasses varied educational/ agricultural fields and makes scientific research efforts possible, and the often intriguing and humourous happenings that occur in such a rich and multi-faceted environment. This university functions as an independent city with internal services of a power plant, well systems, housing, entertainment and sports venues all of which provided the author a daily learning curve in the engineering field. And, after the author retired from the university and established his own consulting firm, tales about the sometimes improbable things people do who design and operate commercial buildings. This book will appeal to engineers, architects, and tradespeople involved in the field of building construction, and to those in the relatively new specialty of Commissioning, making things work like they are designed to function. It is full of troubleshooting stories, problem solving scenarios. An architect who is also a professor at the university stated "this book should be required reading for every mechanical engineering student". Easy to read, hard to put down, these stories will not fail to entertain you. Makes a great gift for the man in your life.