Product Design

The Cannon Design Products Group focuses its energy on developing new and innovative technologies to solve today’s most challenging problems in a sustainable manner. Delivering solutions that contribute to high-performance buildings, the Products Group works with clients to identify and design new devices that increase overall performance and energy efficiency.

The hallmark effort of the Products Group is a commitment to new technologies that perform at higher levels, require fewer resources, reduce liability and energy consumption, and help clients streamline their work processes to achieve new goals.

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  • Booth, Craig

    Craig Booth, RA, LEED

    Associate Principal

    With over 18 years of diverse architectural experience covering a wide range of project types, Craig Booth is a multidisciplinary team leader, capable of project execution from conceptual design through project completion. Working closely with Mehrdad Yazdani on the design of highly technical and award-winning buildings, Booth's influence and expertise has greatly contributed to the Cannon Design's Products Group—leading to multiple implementations of improved devices for a wide variety of clients.

  • Cannon, Paul O.

    Paul O. Cannon

    Principal

    With over 20 years of strategic marketing experience, Paul Cannon leads Cannon Design’s emerging business platforms that step beyond traditional architecture and design. These pursuits include facility optimization, commissioning and product design. He is responsible for the development and implementation of innovative strategies focused on building these efforts in line with the firm’s commitment to solving the greatest challenges facing our clients and society. Formerly responsible for leading the firm's national education practice, Cannon continues to utilize the firm’s Single-Firm, Multi-Office (SFMO®) practice approach to structure and mobilize project teams consistent with the needs of clients.

  • Carlino, David M.

    David M. Carlino

    Chief Financial Officer

    As Chief Financial Officer, David Carlino is responsible for Cannon Design’s overall financial planning, budgeting, banking and financial operations. He serves on the firm’s board of directors and strategic planning committee, and contributes to firm-wide strategies and acquisitions, and communicates extensively with the firm’s leadership and operational managers on project-related issues. He is a leader in educating and assisting clients in the financing mechanisms of building construction, including coordinating financing and bonding opportunities.

    Carlino represents Cannon Design at the American Institute of Architect’s CFO’s Large Firm Round Table and is a member of the Financial Executives Institute, a professional organization representing more than 8,000 corporations throughout North America. He is an executive board member of Junior Achievement of Western New York, Inc., and serves on the President’s Advisory Board of Niagara University and Medaille College’s Advisory Board.

  • Williams, Gerald G.

    Gerald G. Williams, PE, LEED

    Vice President

    Gerry Williams leads Cannon Design’s innovative Products Design Group. An accomplished mechanical engineer, he has an extensive background in mechanical systems design and is the lead inventor on the patent pending eVap 1000 product line. For the last 20 years, he designed innovative and sustainable environmental control systems for laboratory, institutional, academic and commercial environments. He and his work have been honored with wide a wide range of awards including: MSPE’s Local Young Engineer of the Year, CSE’s National top 40 under 40 Engineer of the Year, and over ten local and regional ASHRAE Technology Awards.

eVap1000

The eVap 1000 is a stand-alone, bread-box size unit that mounts inside fume hoods and can provide a convenient source of lower pressure cool water necessary for laboratory operations. The eVap 1000 saves money, space and energy in lab spaces. The device will help lab spaces depart from traditional methods of cooling water including simple rubber tubing or via a small chiller unit. These methods can be effective but create problems including the waste of potable fresh water, possible lab flooding, damaged equipment and the loss of space and creation of unnecessary noise. The eVap 1000 eliminates these concerns.

The eVap 1000 connects to an existing building process water loop using high pressure hoses that lock on to the unit. A variable speed pump can control water flow to achieve desired temperatures which allows for additional energy saving and reduced pressure. The eVap plate and frame exchanger design uses metal plates to separate the water steams and cool the water going to the laboratory experiment. Building managers who operate laboratory space and researchers would be interested in the financial and energy savings along with the improved laboratory environment provided by eVap 1000. It is a revolutionary piece of equipment that can alter laboratory environments for the better.

eVap1500

The eVap 1500 Heat Exchanging Water Chillers offer an efficient means to cool laboratory processes and equipment without using tap water or air cooled chiller units with compressors. This eliminates the related flood risks associated with using tap water, saves potentially thousands of gallons of fresh water a day at continuous use, and reduces the heat, noise, and complexity associated with local compressor chiller units.

The unit is designed to be completely portable, connect to a standard 100 volt outlet and can be used wherever there is access to a cooling water source. When operating, the unit will circulate a small amount of chilled water to laboratory equipment at an adjustable flow rate and pressure to meet the equipment’s cooling needed. Tap water can be used for the lab equipment cooling fluid. Water quality should be periodically monitored and flushed or chemically treated to prevent buildup of bacteria and other contaminants.

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