NISS FEINER
C.E.T, CHD, RASDT, RHDT, RVDT

Niss Feiner has been in the industry since January 2006; Initially working as an estimator and project manager for his family’s mechanical contracting company. With this background on the construction end, Niss has been able to provide practical and effective solutions on the engineering side with his design firm Delta-T Designs Inc in Barrie, Ontario.

A firm believer in ongoing education and industry participation, Niss upgraded his professional qualification in November 2022 to a Certified Engineering Technologist (C.E.T.) with the Ontario Association of Certified Engineering Technicians and Technologists, and in October of 2019 became the first designer in Canada to hold the Certified HVAC Designer designation as provided by ASHRAE. This certification validates competency to design HVAC systems to meet building/project requirements, including load calculations, equipment selection and sizing, mechanical equipment room design, duct and piping design and layout for the development of HVAC plans for permit and construction.
As of March 2020, Niss was also accepted to the instruction team for the Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Institute of Canada (HRAI) providing instruction on building load calculations and system design, and in September 2020, Niss joined George Brown College as a Professor of Hydronic Systems Design and HVAC Computer Applications, respectively.
In October 2020 Niss joined the HRAI Advisory Council on Indoor Air Quality in Commercial and Institutional Buildings as the Council Secretariat, where his duties include preliminary technical vetting of documents, coordination with committee members, and production and editing of final documentation produced by the committee. This council’s current primary focus is building operation during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic.

Niss is highly involved with ASHRAE at the local, and society level. He serves as a voting member of the Board of Governors for the Toronto Chapter of ASHRAE, as well as serves on the Society Historical Committee as a voting member and is a Member of ASHRAE Technical Committee 2.2 (Plant and Animal Environment) and ASHRAE Technical Committee 5.10 (Kitchen Ventilation). He also contributed to the creation of the Certified HVAC Designer study guide, and to the Commercial Kitchen Ventilation Design Guide (currently under production). He also sits on the CSA Technical Committee for CSA F280 Determining the required capacity of residential space heating and cooling appliances.