REHVA’s honorary member Ben Bronsema from The Netherlands, celebrated on February 7th 2015 his 80th anniversary.

Jaap Hogeling, Editor in Chief of our REHVA journal and Jan Aufderheijde, Secretary General were present to congratulate him with this milestone on behalf of the whole REHVA community.

There are for Ben many good reasons to be proud, of course to celebrate to be 80 years young in good health, but also to be (one of) the youngest PhD students (he defended his study “Earth – Wind and Fire” at his 78th!, it is available here). Also several past ASHRAE presidents, who know him well, sent him some friendly words (see picture, taken during the ASHRAE summer meeting 2002 in Honolulu, Ben’s last ASHRAE meeting as the representative of the Dutch society for building services, TVVL).