About Us
Richard Gregor
Mechanical Engineer
Richard Gregor is a LEED certified, licensed professional mechanical engineer in MA, NH, and ME. He has been involved in the architecture, construction, design or engineering of over 4000 residences and a million square feet of institutional and commercial buildings. He is currently principal mechanical engineer at Engineered Architecture, a consulting engineering firm located in Amherst, NH. He graduated from Swarthmore College with a bachelor's degree in Engineering (a great surprise to him when he discovered the ENG courses he had been attending were in fact Engineering and not English courses).
He did time as a "rocket scientist" designing gas turbine engines for the General Electric Company, working on leading edge technological products which have yet to be produced. He was awarded a NASA fellowship. After two years at Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering, he discovered that scraps of lumber could be used to sketch plans that were only a day away from production-and so began a career in architecture, construction, development, energy conservation, engineering, mechanical contracting, and refrigeration (listed alphabetically for convenience, not chronology).
He designed NH's first active solar residence in the aftermath of the oil embargo of the early seventies, passive solar condominiums and commercial buildings, environmentally conscious large scale developments, manufactured housing, as well as the traditional menu of architecture, engineering, and construction. Now, he has lived long enough to recycle the knowledge base accumulated over the past 30 years for the current cycle of energy-conscious, sustainable building. He lives in NH, home of the worst recorded weather in the world (Mt. Washington).