暖通空调行业是否在做我们的客户和客户认为他们需要付费的工作？还是我们照常做生意，把一个基于我们熟悉的技术的单一设计概念强加给他们，而不考虑未来？随着能源、劳动力、设备和政府监管成本的上升，我们是否遇到了挑战，或者我们是否在努力推卸工作责任的同时，为问题提供了终身服务？工程专业的学生相信，工程师会提供技术支持，帮助他们做出正确的决策！我们真的是在提供工程服务，还是仅仅是设计服务？我们能否通过让他人参与决策过程来改进系统、改进服务、减少责任？为了让其他人参与进来，工程师必须做他真正接受过培训的事情，准备一些不同的概念，其中任何一个都可以解决主要问题，然后对每个概念的优点进行清晰、简洁的分析，然后要求相关方参与决策过程。 引文:德克萨斯州休斯顿ASHRAE学报第88卷第1部分研讨会

Is the HVAC Industry doing the job that our customers and clients think they are paying for? Or are we doing business as usual, forcing a single design concept based on a technology we are comfortable with down their throats without a thought to the future? As the costs of energy, labor, equipment and government regulation escalated have we met the challange, or have we dust paid lif service to problems while making elaborate efforts to duck any responsibility for our work? Engineering students are led to believe that the engineer provides technical support to aide in making sound decisions! Are we really providing engineering services, or simply design services? Courl we improve systems, improve our services, decrease our liability by involving others in the decision making process? To involve other, the engineer has to do what he was really trained to do, prepare a number of different concepts, any one of which could solve the major problem, then provide a clear, concise analysis of the merits of each, then ask the interested parties to contribute and participate in the decision making process.