ASHRAE Insights - October 2017 - 1
ASHRAE Insights October 2017 1 ® October 2017 Volume 32 Number 5 Plan Now for Conference, Expo Registration is now open for ASHRAE's 2018 Winter Conference, to be held in Chicago, Ill., Jan. 20-24, at the Palmer House Hilton. Registration is also open for the AHR Expo, Jan. 22-24 at McCormick Place, cosponsored by ASHRAE and the Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI). The ASHRAE Winter Conference features eight conference tracks, tours, social events and a keynote message from Debbie Sterling, Founder and CEO of GoldieBlox. Attendees will examine the latest topics in the building industry, through a technical program featuring more than 200 presentations and 300 speakers. "Engineers and designers continue to adopt design principles to reduce the ecological impact of our built environment on the world around us. It has practically become second nature," says Michael Collarin, technical program chair of the ASHRAE Winter Conference. "This conference provides professionals with an unparalleled opportunity to focus on the design, build, control, commission, operating facilities and infrastructure resources that they need, not only to be efficient, but resilient." The conference includes tracks on what ASHRAE is most known for - standards, fundamentals and applications, systems and equipment. Tracks on industry trends in resiliency and modeling throughout a building's life cycle, as well as tracks addressing specific disciplines, such as tall buildings and heat exchange equipment, are also on the agenda. Technical Program tracks include Systems and Equipment; Fundamentals and Applications; Standards, Guidelines and Codes; Earth, Wind & Fire; Tall Buildings; Modeling Throughout the Building Life Cycle; and Heat Exchange Equipment. ASHRAE Learning Institute (ALI) will offer two full-day, and five half-day seminars during the conference. Courses include: The Commissioning Process in New & Existing Buildings; High-Performance Building Design: Applications & Future Trends; Variable ASHRAE conferences attract professionals from around the world for networking, informative sessions, education courses and noted speakers. Refrigerant Flow Systems: Design & Application; and Designing Toward Net-Zero Energy Commercial Buildings. New and updated courses include: * Optimizing Indoor Environment: Increasing Building Value; * Understanding and Designing Chilled Beam Systems; * Designing High-Performance Healthcare HVAC Systems; * Complying with Standard 90.1-2016: HVAC/Mechanical; and * Humidity Control I and II: Principles & Applications. Visit ASHRAE Learning Institute (ALI) Courses for a full list of conference course offerings. Those interested in sitting for one of six ASHRAE certification exams must apply by Dec. 20. The exams include: Energy Assessment, Energy Modeling, Commissioning, Healthcare Facility Design, HighPerformance Building Design and Building Operations. Learn more and apply at www. ashrae.org/certification. AHR Expo hosts more than 2,000 exhibitors and attracts crowds of 65,000 industry professionals from every state in the United States and 165 countries worldwide during the three day exhibit. There are three distinct product sections within the expo show floor: Member's Engineering Challenge Helps the Displaced Get Housing Every minute, 24 people around the world are forced to flee their homes. The 2018 Setty Family Foundation Applied Engineering Challenge is calling on ASHRAE student members to design a temporary shelter for governments, municipalities and humanitarian agencies to use that will provide shelter and essential domestic systems for displaced families. The challenge is to design a shelter no larger than 24 m2 (258 ft2) with a maximum height of 2.6 m (8.5 ft) to accommodate a family of six to eight people in Eastern Europe. The Setty Family Foundation is endowing the student design competition's winners' travel and conference registration for the 2019 ASHRAE Winter Conference in Atlanta. Boggarm Setty, P.E., Fellow/Life Member ASHRAE, and his family established the Setty Family Foundation. A native of India who now lives in Virginia, Setty has served on several Technical Committees, SSPC for Standard 189.1, Standard for the Design of High-Performance Green Buildings, Standard 180, Standard Practice for Inspection and Maintenance of Commercial Building HVAC Systems, the Standards Committee and the Board of Trustees nominating committee. The Building Automation and Control Showcase: This area is designated for building automation, energy and facility management systems; climate controls; monitoring systems; wireless and cloudbased options; and other networked building systems including lighting, security, fire alarms, and more. The Software Center: This area is designated for HVAC&R related software, both off-the-shelf and customized solutions, for the following: project and field service management including estimating, inventory control, GPS tracking; system design, specification and analysis; remote-based and cloud-based software; and more. The Indoor Air Quality Association Pavilion: This area is designated for member companies of the Indoor Air Quality Association. These exhibitors will be showing products related to IAQ, such as air quality monitors, exhaust fans, environmental testing systems, dehumidifiers and more. In addition to exhibitor presentations, demonstrations and seminars, the AHR Expo Innovation Awards will honor the most inventive products, systems and technologies showcased at the Expo. A Refrigerant mini-track and a Residential minitrack will also be presented on Monday, Jan. 22 at McCormick Place. ASHRAE Winter Conference registrants will have full access to the AHR Expo with a conference badge. ASHRAE President Bjarne W. Olesen, Ph.D. (4th from left) led the ceremonial ribbon cutting of the new ASHRAE Global Training Center. ASHRAE Global Training Center Officially Launched In Dubai ASHRAE celebrated the grand opening of its new Global Training Center in Dubai with a ribbon cutting ceremony and reception Sept. 19. The Global Training Center will serve ASHRAE members and other building systems professionals in the Persian Gulf Region and surrounding areas. "ASHRAE and our members are working tirelessly toward our goal of extending our global community to better embrace our industry's shared needs and objectives," said 2017-2018 ASHRAE President Bjarne W. Olesen, Ph.D. "Dubai was an intentional and obvious location to establish the ASHRAE Global Training Center. In doing so, we hope to ensure the technical guidance we produce for all members continues to strengthen through global diversity. This center will empower our members in the Middle East with the knowledge they need to better serve the needs of their local communities." The focus of the ASHRAE Global Training Center is to make curricula-based training conveniently available on a regular schedule. The training offered in the center is customized and scalable based upon climate, culture, suppliers, energy sources, prices, codes and construction practices. The center's instructors are engineers familiar with the intricacies of the Middle East. To commemorate the opening, ASHRAE hosted a day of events, including a ribbon See Global Training Center, Page 2 Historical Minute Propeller Fans in Theaters "Until recently...it was the practice, in the equipment of theatres, to install one or two noisy exhaust fans and spot a few gas radiators throughout. When the combination of garlic, Fleur de l'Orient, halitosis, etc., became unbearable, the organ and the big propeller fans would be started. "Some of these old propeller fans are quite the equal of the organ in noisegenerating characteristics, but they move the air out, and down the aisles comes a flood of cool air, striking the defenseless patron on the back of his perspiring neck and legs. Naturally, we are behind in our hospital building program." -"Don'ts on Theatre Ventilation" by E. Vernon Hill, The Heating and Ventilating Magazine, March 1925.
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