Duane Warren
Senior Director - Engineering & RCx Engineer Jones Lang LaSalle
Duane Warren is an Engineering Director at JLL with deep expertise in data center HVAC, commissioning, energy efficiency, and building automation. He has performed mechanical and electrical commissioning across mission critical facilities nationwide and led retrocommissioning and optimization projects in healthcare, research, manufacturing, and education. Duane has designed and installed 200 kW–2 MW PV systems and completed multiple energy performance contracts. A frequent conference speaker, he holds credentials including CEM, CMVP, BCxP, PVMA, and LEED GA.
Seminars
Friday 20th February 2026
Panel: Tracking the Latest Trends & Development Pipeline to Shape Smarter Investment & Future-Ready Strategies
1:40 pm
- Exploring emerging technologies, including Computational Fluid Dynamic simulation, to keep up with the latest innovation in mechanical design
- Engaging with owners and operators to understand their roadmaps, pain points and evolving standards that will shape the next 2–5 years of infrastructure design
- Translating end-user priorities into smarter mechanical builds to align construction and delivery with evolving customer expectations
Thursday 19th February 2026
Panel: Strengthening Stakeholder Communication to Bridge Gaps Between Design Intent & Operational Reality
3:30 pm
- Facilitating dialogue between rack manufacturers, infrastructure engineers and operations teams to ensure mechanical designs align with server/rack requirements
- Examining the lack of full-system integration ownership across vendors, designers and contractors, and how to prevent fragmented integrations and misalignment between components
- Highlighting breakdowns at commissioning handoff to identify where design plans often crash with operational realities to prevent issues early
- Building industry-wide collaboration frameworks to support rapid growth, knowledge transfer and alignment on evolving workload and cooling demands
Thursday 19th February 2026
Adopting Cooling Innovations that Enhance Efficiency & Resilience to Drive Down Total Cost of Ownership
8:10 am
- Designing low-overhead mechanical systems to drive down cooling related PUE through optimized pump curves, staging chillers and right-sizing fans
- Balancing efficiency, redundancy and lifecycle costs to ensure that operational improvements do not compromise reliability or introduce mechanical stress
- Effectively planning for redundancy to cut power consumption and future-proof against density growth and reliability risks
