Wrightsoft

Wrightsoft Corp.

Company type	Private
Founded	1985
Headquarters	Lexington, Massachusetts , USA
Key people	Bill Wright: President & CEO Chris Edgren: Vice President Sales & Marketing Michael Shnitman: Vice President Software Development Charles S. "Chip" Barnaby Vice President Research
Website	www.wrightsoft.com

Wrightsoft is a software development firm for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC). Established in 1985,^[1] Wrightsoft has served residential, commercial, and educational markets by providing HVAC design, specification, and sales software.^[2] Wrightsoft is headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA.

History[edit]

In 1985, while conducting a graduate HVAC seminar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Bill Wright entered into a partnership with the Air Conditioning Contractors of America to design software for HVAC Manual J load calculations. As the original technical software partner of ACCA,^[3] Wrightsoft Corp became the first HVAC software company to create a computerized version of their Manual J, Manual D, and Manual N calculation methods.

The Air Conditioning Contractors of America and Wrightsoft released the very first Manual J Load calculation software (Right-J) in February 1986.^[4]

Corporate Logos[edit]

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  Wright Associates (1986–1995)
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  Wrightsoft: 1st Logo (1996–2006)
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  Wrightsoft: Current Logo (2006–present)

See also[edit]

• Heating, Ventilating & Air Conditioning (HVAC)
• American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)
• ASHRAE Handbook

Sources[edit]

• Weil, Michael S. "From Drafting Table to CAD and Beyond" Contracting Business (May 1997) p60-65
• Wright, Bill. "New diagram-based software offers a higher level of automated design" ACHR theNews, (May 10, 1999), Vol. 207 Issue 2, p18
• Feldman, William, and Patti Feldman. "Software may be Wright for commercial jobs." Contractor 48.7 (July 2001): 32
• Hall, John R. "Contractor demonstrates residential design software. (MIACCA)." Air Conditioning, Heating & Refrigeration News 216.3 (May 20, 2002): 9(1)
• Dunlop, Jodi "2004 AHR Expo Innovation Award Winners Selected" ASHRAE Journal (Jan 2004): Vol. 46 Issue 1, pS14-S15, 2p
• Bushnell, Davis "He caught wind of a software need" The Boston Globe [0743-1791] (June 28, 2007)
• Harris, Angela D. "Software adds sizzle to the sale." Air Conditioning, Heating & Refrigeration News 233.9 (Feb 25, 2008): p1(3)

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