John R. Puskar P.E.

John Puskar has been practicing in the fired equipment and boiler safety and energy world for more than 40 years. He is a licensed Mechanical Engineer in six states and holds nearly every contractor license offered by the state of Ohio, including for fire protection and alarm disciplines. Puskar is a coauthor of Associated of Energy Engineers’ (AEE’s) Certified Industrial Energy Practitioner Program and a certified energy manager (CEM). Puskar has done more than 200 commercial and industrial energy audits over his career. His body of energy-related work includes performance contracting with industrial clients on boiler and chiller retrofit projects. One of his former companies, CEC Consultants Inc. earned the DOE Energy Star Ally of the Year award presented in Washington, D.C. Puskar is also the founder of CEC Combustion Services. This firm provided risk management audits, training, retrofits, and gas hazards management in more than 30 countries. He grew the firm from himself in the upstairs of his house to 43 people and over $10 million in annual sales before selling the firm in 2011. Today, the firm is owned by Honeywell and is known as Honeywell Combustion Services Group. In 2014, his book, “Fuels and Combustion Systems Safety – “What you don’t know can KILL you!” was published by Wiley and Sons. He was presented with one of ASME’s highest national awards, the Uzgiris-Barnett Product Safety Medal, for his lifetime contribution and innovations in the industrial safety world in 2015. Puskar currently serves on the NFPA 54, 56, 59A, 85, and 820 committees and has also been on the 86 committee, ASME CSD-1, and API 54 committees. He has authored more than 100 journal and magazine articles and has presented at more than 100 conferences and training workshops.