NFRC Membership Elects Five to Board

Results came in yesterday for the board of directors elections of the Silver Spring, MD-based National Fenestration Rating Council during the organization’s Fall Membership Meeting in Arlington, VA.

The web-based voting for the five open board seats ran from October 6 to November 3, receiving 126 ballots out of 232 members. The 54.3 percent participation fell short of the 59.4 percent in the 2005 election.

Joseph Hayden, senior project engineer for certification at Pella Corp. of Pella, IA, won the most-contested race in the election for a one-year term for a seat in the fenestration industry category. Hayden received 51.6 percent of the vote, beating out Thomas Culp, owner of Birch Point Consulting LLC in LaCrosse, WI, who received 35.7 percent of the vote and Brad Schultz, vice president of Associated Laboratories Inc. in Dallas, who received 10.3 percent of the vote.

The other contested race of the election surrounded a three-year seat in the laboratory category. Michael Thoman, director of simulations and thermal testing for Architectural Testing Inc. in York, PA, edged out Jeff Baker, president of WestLab Canada in West London, Ontario, for the seat. Thoman received 56.3 percent of the vote, and Baker 41.3 percent.

The remaining three seats went to candidates in uncontested races.

Mike Manteghi, director of research and development for TRACO in Cranberry Township, PA, took the seat for a three-year term in the fenestration industry category.

The general interest category had two open slots for three-year terms. Jeffrey Harris, vice president of programs for the Alliance to Save Energy in Washington, DC, and Kerry Haglund, a researcher at the Center for Sustainable Building Research at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, both won uncontested races for those seats.

The NFRC board consists of 12 seats of either one- or three-year terms, five in the fenestration industry category, one in the laboratory category and six in the general interest category.