Since May of 2006, we at ICU have been using thermal imaging cameras to see what other can't. We provide a wide variety of services focused on lowering customers’ energy costs and finding building envelop problems, with state-of-the-art equipment. Infrared
wavelengths cannot be seen with the naked eye, but our cameras convert apparent infrared thermal radiation into a visual image which with other tools and experience can help solve building
and equipment problems. This technology is not new; it has been used by our military for decades. In the past ten years industry has been the predominant
civilian user. Applying the technology to the building sciences is an emerging arena.
Brad Shafer is the founder, owner, and operator of Infrared: Conservation Unearthed. Brad as logged hundreds of hours of IR training and camera application experience. Brad has completed formal training classes conducted by the Infrared Training Center. He has completed the Level I Thermography class and is a certified IR Building Science Thermographer by the Infrared Training Center.
Brad’s background is a technical one. In all, Brad has over eighteen years of experience in manufacturing operations and facilities management. He has successfully developed and improved the cost effectiveness of industrial processes. He has spent over three years managing a maintenance crew in an automotive component manufacturing facility, where Infrared Thermography was used extensively to monitor asset performance in casting, machining, and assembly production operations. Brad has managed large scale facility additions and energy reduction capital projects. Some of the projects included adding a 100,000 sq-ft casting facility, lowering compressed air energy costs, pump redesigns, and high bay fluorescent lighting improvements primarily funded by the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Brad obtained his undergraduate degree in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from GMI Engineering & Management Institute, now know as Kettering. His Master’s of Science in Engineering was earned from Western Michigan University.
Brad Shafer is the founder, owner, and operator of Infrared: Conservation Unearthed. Brad as logged hundreds of hours of IR training and camera application experience. Brad has completed formal training classes conducted by the Infrared Training Center. He has completed the Level I Thermography class and is a certified IR Building Science Thermographer by the Infrared Training Center.
Brad’s background is a technical one. In all, Brad has over eighteen years of experience in manufacturing operations and facilities management. He has successfully developed and improved the cost effectiveness of industrial processes. He has spent over three years managing a maintenance crew in an automotive component manufacturing facility, where Infrared Thermography was used extensively to monitor asset performance in casting, machining, and assembly production operations. Brad has managed large scale facility additions and energy reduction capital projects. Some of the projects included adding a 100,000 sq-ft casting facility, lowering compressed air energy costs, pump redesigns, and high bay fluorescent lighting improvements primarily funded by the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Brad obtained his undergraduate degree in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from GMI Engineering & Management Institute, now know as Kettering. His Master’s of Science in Engineering was earned from Western Michigan University.