Stephen Turner

Stephen Turner is a commissioning expert with over 40 years’ experience engineering, constructing, commissioning, operating, and maintaining buildings and systems. He brings deep engineering understanding and hands-on perspective to diagnosing problems and optimizing buildings.

Stephen’s experience includes several hundred new construction and renovation projects, variously as contractor, engineer, and owner. Prior to starting Stephen Turner, Inc. in Providence in 2009, Stephen joined CTG Energetics, a large, nationwide commissioning practice, in 2005, where he led commissioning teams on large, complex projects. He worked at Brown University from 2000–05 and was the commissioning coordinator for all major capital projects.

A thought leader in the commissioning sector, Stephen teaches commissioning and publishes widely in peer-reviewed journals. He uses his extensive experience with high-performance design, testing, and balancing, energy-efficient equipment design, control strategy optimization, and lifecycle costing to assist project owners in meeting their specific design goals.