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Headquarters Renovation Committee Bill A. Harrison, chair, Member ASHRAE, president of Trane Arkansas, Little Rock, Ark.. Harrison is 2008 – 2009 ASHRAE president. Darryl Boyce, P .E., Member ASHRAE, director, the Department of Physical Plant, Carleton University, Ottawa. Damon Gowan, Presidential Member ASHRAE, president of Gowan Inc., Houston. Gordon V.R. Holness, P Fellow/Life Member .E., ASHRAE, chairman emeritus, Albert Kahn Associates Inc., Detroit. Ron Jarnagin, Member ASHRAE, staff scientist/ program manager, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Wash. Jeff H. Littleton, executive vice president of ASHRAE. Mike Vaughn, P Member ASHRAE, manager .E., of ASHRAE’s research and technical services sections. ASHRAE is ‘walking the talk’ by showing building owners how to extend the life cycle of the existing building stock. More than 75% of the existing structure was retained. ATLANTA—Because ASHRAE’s nearly 40-year-old headquarters building was in need of substantial repairs, a Presidential Ad Hoc Building Committee was established in 2004 to review the best options for the facility. In 2005 the ASHRAE Board of Directors voted to adopt sustainability as the central theme for the Strategic Plan and committed to making the headquarters decision a significant statement in that program. Consistent with that, the Board decided to renovate and expand the existing headquarters building. ASHRAE had four main goals for the renewal: to provide a healthy and productive workplace and meeting space for employees and members; to demonstrate a commitment to sustainability; to build a learning center to increase resources for on-site educational opportunities and meetings; and to create a living lab. “The living lab will support the ASHRAE research program with a rich resource of data on building, system and equipment performance, a demonstration of performance monitoring, and space for ‘real world’ investigations in an operating building,” said Bill Harrison, ASHRAE president. While the construction team included contracted professionals, it also included a volunteer technical advisory committee to take advantage of ASHRAE’s volun10 ASHRAE Journal ASHRAE Rebuilds HQ To Ref lect Mission Photo credit: Rebecca Matyasovski Technical Advisory Committee Ron Jarnagin, chair, Member ASHRAE, staff scientist/program manager, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Wash. Dan Nall, P .E., FAIA, Member ASHRAE, senior director, Tishman Speyer, New York. Stanley A. Mumma, Ph.D., Member ASHRAE, professor, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa. Michael Lane, project manager, Lighting Design Lab, Seattle. Steve Taylor, P .E., Fellow ASHRAE, principal, Taylor Engineering, Alameda, Calif. Gregory R. Jeffers, P Member ASHRAE, senior .E., project engineer, Mckenney’s, Atlanta. Elia Sterling, Member ASHRAE, president, Theodor D. Sterling & Assoc., Vancouver, BC, Canada. Bill Knight, P director of energy management, .E., School District of Greenville County, Greenville, S.C. Charles E. Dorgan, Ph.D., P .E., Fellow/Life Member ASHRAE, professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wis. Mike Brambley, Ph.D., Member ASHRAE, staff scientist, Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Richland, Wash. teer resources in architecture, mechanical systems, lighting, controls, sustainability, IAQ, energy, and O&M. ASHRAE plans to apply for LEED®EB Gold and LEED-NC 2.2 designations. Some key technical features of the building are a dedicated outdoor air system with air-to-air heat recovery desiccant heat wheels; variable refrigerant flow, inverter-driven, two-stage outdoor DX heat pumps and ducted fan coil units; ground source heat pumps that use a geothermal field of twelve 400 ft deep wells; and a roof-mounted photovoltaic electrical power generating array. Commissioning was completed earlier this month, and an occupant survey will be conducted this fall. The committee is looking at some cutting-edge building diagnostic software that will look for failure patterns in the building. The committee is also preparing a descriptive package of the building to be given to ASHRAE’s technical committees to be used in their research planning. “The biggest problem with research is getting access to a building. It makes it easy to proceed with research when we have one available to us,” said Mike Vaughn, P.E. manager of research/technical services. Another idea is for ASHRAE to be a portal to living labs throughout the world. This network of buildings would ashrae.org give researchers access to buildings with different systems and different climates to help them with their projects. The 106 employees of the ASHRAE staff have been in the building since July. Comments have been positive about the new work environment, especially about the extra meeting space provided by the learning center, the daylighting and the improved look of the interior. “The building finally reflects the image of ASHRAE,” said Judy Marshall, manager of conference services. October 2008

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Commentary
Industry News
Letters
ASHRAE HQ Dedication Booklet
ASHRAE Rebuilds HQ to Reflect Mission
Feature Articles
ASHRAE's Living Lab
Meetings and Shows
Sizing Pipe Using Life-Cycle Costs
Feature Articles
Energy-Efficient Data Centers: A Close-Coupled Row Solution
The Future of 90.1
Ventilation Standard for Health Care Facilities
Grosvenor Humidity Chart
ASHRAE Research Report
ASHRAE Honor Roll
Building Sciences
Special Products
Emerging Technologies
Product Showplace
Classified Advertisting
Advertising Index
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