About The Founder
Andrea Bashaw, the founder of ASIDACO is passionate about alternative ways to produce energy, principles in science, design, and construction, and the progression of these in industry. This passion for technology, humanity, and social well-being has been a prime motivation for founding ASIDACO, LLC. She understands the importance of focusing on problems one piece at a time in order to solve them. She is highly skilled at managing people, assessment, design, development, construction, and commissioning of electrical and energy projects.
Prior to launching ASIDACO, Andrea spent five years as an Electrical Design and Commissioning Engineer with Sebesta Blomberg, a nationally recognized provider of full-service engineering and design services. During her tenure she led or participated in the electrical design development of multiple large -scale construction, energy projects, and electrical equipment facility assessments while providing in-depth electrical project commissioning expertise for several projects across New England. Her project history while at this company included utility infrastructures and substations, medium voltages high rise buildings, hospitals and ‘Solar PV’ and ‘Wind Turbine’ studies or Audits. She gained a reputation for her integrity and exceeded expected results.
Her first accomplishment in her professional career was development of a facility that incorporated sustainable design initiatives. This project included development of a small distributed power plant while at the same time utilizing and rebuilding voltage stabilization components for that system at the facility. She managed the facility’s operation and maintenance for 16 years post-construction.
Following her initial contribution at that facility Andrea was the founding principal member of an electrical contracting company, and was the youngest to receive an electrical contractor’s license in the city of Dayton, Ohio at that time.
Andrea also deployed her services and electrical capabilities while serving in the electrical industry as an IBEW member with the classification of an ‘Inside Wireman’ journeyperson, and still carries that membership today. During her tenure she worked in several roles on electrical projects in multiple industries.
Some of these were automotive manufacturing plants, utility sub sstations, cement manufacturing, paper mills, paint plants, hospitals, high-rise buildings, data centers, nationally-known department store renovations, shopping mall construction, Air Force base utility infrastructure renovation, fresh- and wastewater treatment plants, natural gas and coal -fired utility power plants. These facilities incorporated distributed power, protective relaying, multiple voltages, system integration, energy management, energy storage, and load transfer schemes. Her initial motivation to become involved in the power industry was heavily influenced by the desire she had for alternative means of producing energy dating back to 1981. During that period in her career she experimented with multiple small- scale renewable energy and sustainable design criteria. Her drive to evolve in the industry and gain both technical and practical backgrounds has given her a solid understanding and appreciation of what it takes to produce a financially feasible outcome in the area of energy design and sustainable construction projects.
Below is a partial list of projects that highlight the variety and scope of projects she has managed or taken a lead role in construction, facility assessment, commissioning, or design:
Western Mass Food Bank, Hatfield, Massachusetts
IBEW Local 103, Boston, MA
Wendy’s Restaurant, Columbus, Ohio
Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
Good Samaritan Hospital, Dayton, Ohio
Maine Medical Centre, Portland Maine
Northwest Shopping Plaza, Dayton, Ohio
General Motors, Moraine Ohio
Delphi Automotive, Dayton, Ohio
Miami Valley Hospital, Dayton Ohio
New Burlington Woodworks Dayton, Ohio
Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
Multi-use building, Lynn, Massachusetts
Harbor Towers, Boston, Massachusetts
Numerous high-end custom residential projects, southwestern Ohio
Frickers Restaurant, Perrysburg, Ohio
Pizza Hut, Dayton, Ohio
Springboro Water Treatment Plant, Springboro, Ohio
Numerous electrical commissioning projects throughout New England
Andrea is a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, International Association of Lighting Designers, The Green Building Counsel, N.F.P.A. (National Fire Protection Assn.), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, The Association of Energy Engineers and the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association.
Andrea studied Electrical Engineering at Northeastern University and Wright State University, holds a Masters Electricians License, is a certified IBEW Journeyman Electrician, and a Certified Building Analyst.
"Our goal is to facilitate progressive ideas into tangible outcomes. ASIDACO believes in achieving this outcome by fostering a think-tank approach and is building a network to do just that."
"The need for this is worldwide and evident in poor, medically unfortunate, and forgotten populations without the benefits of large scale project funding for infrastructure. This piece of life is the most important piece of the human character to maintain. ASIDACO was founded with this character and lives by this rule."
Prior to launching ASIDACO, Andrea spent five years as an Electrical Design and Commissioning Engineer with Sebesta Blomberg, a nationally recognized provider of full-service engineering and design services. During her tenure she led or participated in the electrical design development of multiple large -scale construction, energy projects, and electrical equipment facility assessments while providing in-depth electrical project commissioning expertise for several projects across New England. Her project history while at this company included utility infrastructures and substations, medium voltages high rise buildings, hospitals and ‘Solar PV’ and ‘Wind Turbine’ studies or Audits. She gained a reputation for her integrity and exceeded expected results.
Her first accomplishment in her professional career was development of a facility that incorporated sustainable design initiatives. This project included development of a small distributed power plant while at the same time utilizing and rebuilding voltage stabilization components for that system at the facility. She managed the facility’s operation and maintenance for 16 years post-construction.
Following her initial contribution at that facility Andrea was the founding principal member of an electrical contracting company, and was the youngest to receive an electrical contractor’s license in the city of Dayton, Ohio at that time.
Andrea also deployed her services and electrical capabilities while serving in the electrical industry as an IBEW member with the classification of an ‘Inside Wireman’ journeyperson, and still carries that membership today. During her tenure she worked in several roles on electrical projects in multiple industries.
Some of these were automotive manufacturing plants, utility sub sstations, cement manufacturing, paper mills, paint plants, hospitals, high-rise buildings, data centers, nationally-known department store renovations, shopping mall construction, Air Force base utility infrastructure renovation, fresh- and wastewater treatment plants, natural gas and coal -fired utility power plants. These facilities incorporated distributed power, protective relaying, multiple voltages, system integration, energy management, energy storage, and load transfer schemes. Her initial motivation to become involved in the power industry was heavily influenced by the desire she had for alternative means of producing energy dating back to 1981. During that period in her career she experimented with multiple small- scale renewable energy and sustainable design criteria. Her drive to evolve in the industry and gain both technical and practical backgrounds has given her a solid understanding and appreciation of what it takes to produce a financially feasible outcome in the area of energy design and sustainable construction projects.
Below is a partial list of projects that highlight the variety and scope of projects she has managed or taken a lead role in construction, facility assessment, commissioning, or design:
Western Mass Food Bank, Hatfield, Massachusetts
IBEW Local 103, Boston, MA
Wendy’s Restaurant, Columbus, Ohio
Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
Good Samaritan Hospital, Dayton, Ohio
Maine Medical Centre, Portland Maine
Northwest Shopping Plaza, Dayton, Ohio
General Motors, Moraine Ohio
Delphi Automotive, Dayton, Ohio
Miami Valley Hospital, Dayton Ohio
New Burlington Woodworks Dayton, Ohio
Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
Multi-use building, Lynn, Massachusetts
Harbor Towers, Boston, Massachusetts
Numerous high-end custom residential projects, southwestern Ohio
Frickers Restaurant, Perrysburg, Ohio
Pizza Hut, Dayton, Ohio
Springboro Water Treatment Plant, Springboro, Ohio
Numerous electrical commissioning projects throughout New England
Andrea is a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, International Association of Lighting Designers, The Green Building Counsel, N.F.P.A. (National Fire Protection Assn.), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, The Association of Energy Engineers and the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association.
Andrea studied Electrical Engineering at Northeastern University and Wright State University, holds a Masters Electricians License, is a certified IBEW Journeyman Electrician, and a Certified Building Analyst.
"The need for this is worldwide and evident in poor, medically unfortunate, and forgotten populations without the benefits of large scale project funding for infrastructure. This piece of life is the most important piece of the human character to maintain. ASIDACO was founded with this character and lives by this rule."
