In August 1961, Ring & DuChateau consulting engineers opened its doors to provide engineering services to clients throughout the Milwaukee area. Its founders, James Ring and Joseph DuChateau, were two young engineers with a penchant for quality and a vision for the future. Their founding principles, practice quality design and emphasize service, remain the cornerstone of Ring & DuChateau’s work today. While the firm’s principles haven’t changed, many other things have.

Since the early days of a handful of staff, Ring & DuChateau has grown to be one of the largest engineering firms in Wisconsin with a staff of 90 engineers, designers, technicians and support staff. Ring & Du’s first home was a small office building on North 117^th Street in Wauwatosa. With growth, the team moved to a much larger space in Wauwatosa to house its growing staff, and in 2014 we moved to our current home, a two-story office building on Capitol Drive in Brookfield. In 2019, we expanded further by opening an office in Madison to provide more local services to new and existing clients.

We’ve also expanded our service area nation-wide with engineers now licensed in 27 states.

While our home, staff and service area have grown, so too has the menu of services Ring & DuChateau offers clients. Initially providing HVAC and plumbing engineering services, Ring & DuChateau now also offers electrical engineering, commissioning services and technology, lighting and utility design.

For these many years of opportunity and growth, we sincerely thank our staff for their hard work and dedication to quality, and our clients for their collaboration and trust.

For a more detailed history of our past 60 years, check out the timeline at the bottom of our firm webpage: https://www.ringdu.com/our-firm/

Ring & DuChateau’s Pablo Guerrero has earned a Certified HVAC Designer (CHD) designation from the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). According to the ASHRAE website, the CHD certification validates competency to design HVAC systems to meet building/project requirements including equipment, equipment sizing, load calculations, mechanical equipment room design, duct and piping design and layout, and develop HVAC plans for permit and construction.

“Congratulations to Pablo. He put in a lot of time and effort preparing for the exam,” said HVAC Department Manager Jeff Saunders. “The certification recognizes his knowledge of HVAC systems and his desire to continue on with his professional development goals.”

Guerrero joined Ring & DuChateau in 2014 and is currently a CAD designer. He holds an associate degree in Architectural Technology from Milwaukee Area Technical College and is also certified as a LEED® Green Associate.

Partner/Senior Commissioning Provider Rachel Rueckert and Associate/Lighting Group Manager Holly Blomquist were named as Notable Women in Construction & Design by the Milwaukee BizTimes. The list was published May 25 as part of the publication’s Notable Women series.

“This recognition for Rachel and Holly is well-deserved,” said Ring & DuChateau President Dave DuChateau. “Both are not only notable, but true leaders in their respective fields of commissioning and lighting design.”

Rueckert, a licensed professional engineer and certified commissioning provider, has been with Ring & DuChateau since she co-founded its commissioning group in 2010. She was named a partner in 2018.

Blomquist, a Lighting Certified professional who joined R&D as a lighting designer in 2014, was promoted to lighting group manager in 2017, and named an associate in 2019.

https://issuu.com/biztimesmedia/docs/052520_digital_edition?fr=sZjBhODE0NTA1Mzg

Two Ring & DuChateau electrical department interns, Jaclyn McNulty and Collin Rayome, were on the winning team for the 2020 AEI International Student Design Competition. Rayome was hired as an intern in September 2017, while McNulty joined the team in March 2018.

The two were part of a multi-discipline MSOE team tasked with the development and integration of innovative and original solutions to consider in the competition’s design challenge in the historic renovation of War Memorial Hall on Virginia Tech’s campus in Blacksburg, Virginia.  MSOE’s group was one of three finalists in the overall competition, taking first place in the Construction Management and Development category and second place in the Electrical Systems Design category.

https://www.msoe.edu/about-msoe/news/details/msoe-team-wins-at-aei-international-student-design-competition/