ASHRAE Journal - August 2008 - (Page 5)

C O M M E N TA RY ASHRAE’s New Building I’m sure you’ve heard by now that ASHRAE has a new headquarters. Actually, ASHRAE’s old headquarters has been expanded and turned into a living laboratory for building performance and sustainability, and a learning center for ASHRAE’s education and certiﬁcation programs. Many of the features will be described in subsequent Jour nal ar ticles and other ASHRAE publications. As ASHRAE staff is moving into the new headquarters as we produce this edition, here’s a brief overview. Visit www.ASHRAE.org/building for more information and photos. THE PURPOSE of the living lab is to advance the arts and sciences of HVAC&R. To do this, the building uses a group of demonstration technologies. Level one will Fred Turner feature air-cooled multisplit variable refrigerant flow fan coil units with zoned inverter-driven heat pumps. Level two will use ground source direct expansion heat pumps for cooling and heating. Both systems will be served by a common dedicated outdoor air system (DOAS) with energy recovery and desiccant dehumidiﬁcation. The building also includes water-efﬁcient plumbing, storm water retention and harvesting, roof-mounted solar PV and solar water heating, and high efﬁciency lighting with occupancy sensors. All systems are controlled and monitored through Web interfaces that enable data collection for research purposes. The building even has a weather station. The monitoring systems will allow members to see the performance of the building in terms of temperature, humidity, pollutants, CO2, airﬂow, noise and lighting. The 31,000 ft2 (2900 m2) building has been expanded by 4,500 2 ft (420 m2) at the northeast side to create a learning center. The new wing responds to the growing number of ASHRAE educational programs. It is ﬁlled with presentation rooms and classrooms with advanced audiovisual technology. One of the nicest aspects is the building itself. It looks great inside and out. If you’ve been to the headquarters previously, you’ll be impressed by the changes. The staff work areas are ﬁlled with natural light. Conference rooms and collaborative areas are interspaced with clusters of glass cubicles. It is designed to accommodate staff growth for the next 25 years. It probably goes without saying that the building will exceed all ASHRAE standards. It also is designed to achieve LEED®EB Gold and LEED-NC 2.2. EB Gold is especially prestigious. As of June this year, there were only 85 EB certiﬁed projects, compared to 1,090 for new construction. BILL HARRISON chairs the ASHRAE Headquarters Building Renovation Committee. He’s also ASHRAE 2008 – 09 president. Fittingly, his theme is Maintain to Sustain—Delivering ASHRAE’s Sustainability Promise. “The unfortunate truth is that many buildings with great designs fade from green to grey when building operators don’t understand how to realize the full potential of the energyconserving systems they manage,” Harrison told members in his presidential address at ASHRAE’s Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City. He is challenging ASHRAE to produce the tools required to deliver on the potential of high performance after “the construction is complete and the contractor has left the site.” HARRISON’S address to members starts on Page 20, and heads what we think is a super edition of ASHRAE Journal. One of the articles covers best practices for using ultraviolet germicidal irradiation. The 2008 ASHRAE Handbook has a chapter on UVGI, reﬂecting its growing use to improve indoor air quality, prevent the spread of some infectious diseases, and help protect against bioterrorism. Other articles cover use of heat recovery to control humidity, use of wet-bulb economizers to more sustainably cool data centers, and the advantages and disadvantages of multiple stages of compression for low-temperature refrigeration. We hope you enjoy the issue, and stay tuned for articles on the new building. A SHRAE ® Journal | 1791 Tullie Circle NE | Atlanta, GA 30329-2305 | Phone: 404-636-8400 | Fax: 404-321-5478 | A SHRAE Online: www.ashrae.org Publisher W. Stephen Comstock Editor Fred Turner | fturner@ashrae.org Managing Editor Sarah Foster | sfoster@ashrae.org Associate Editors Jamie Graebner | jgraebner@ashrae.org Rebecca Matyasovski | rmatyasovski@ashrae.org Copy Editors Jeri Eader | jeader@ashrae.org Christopher Weems | cweems@ashrae.org Publishing Services Manager David Soltis Production Jayne Jackson Tracy Becker Advertising Sales Manager Greg Martin | gmartin@ashrae.org Advertising Production Coordinator Vanessa Johnson | vjohnson@ashrae.org Circulation Specialist David Soltis | dsoltis@ashrae.org ASHRAE OFFICERS President William A. Harrison President-Elect Gordon V.R. Holness, P .E. Treasurer Lynn G. Bellenger, P .E. Vice Presidents Jim Fields Andrew Persily, Ph.D. Vincent Tse Thomas Watson, P .E. Secretary & Executive Vice President Jeff H. Littleton POLICY GROUP 2008 – 09 Chair Publications Committee Julia A. Keen, P .E. Washington Ofﬁce washdc@ashrae.org Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation August 2008 ASHRAE Journal 5 http://www.ASHRAE.org/building http://www.ashrae.org

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ASHRAE Journal - August 2008 Contents Commentary Industry News Letters Meetings and Shows Maintain to Sustain—Delivering ASHRAE’s Sustainability Promise Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation: Current Best Practices Improving Humidity Control With Energy Recovery Ventilation Single- or Two-Stage Compression Data Center Cooling: Using Wet-Bulb Economizers Building Sciences InfoCenter Practical Pointers Products Emerging Technologies Washington Report People Special Products Classified Advertising Advertising Index

ASHRAE Journal - August 2008

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