Dayton ASHRAE is now accepting applications for student scholarships. We will award up to two $500 scholarships for the Fall 2012 school year. Applications are due 31 Jan 12. See the November newsletter for more information. Click here to download an application package.
ASHRAE members interested in presenting
programs related to our industry in the public
schools. Chaminade – Julienne has already
requested speakers for this year. Materials
will be provided – just need a couple of hours
of your time. Interested?
Contact
Larraine Kapka at (937) 512-4501
ASHRAE will advance the arts and sciences of heating, ventilation, air conditioning, refrigeration and related human factors to serve the evolving needs of the public and ASHRAE members.
ASHRAE
ASHRAE, the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers is an international organization of 50,000 persons with chapters throughout the world. The Society is organized for the sole purpose of advancing the arts and sciences of heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration for the public's benefit through research, standards writing, continuing education and publications. Through its membership, ASHRAE writes standards that set uniform methods of testing and rating equipment and establish accepted practices for the HVAC&R industry worldwide, such as the design of energy efficient buildings. The Society's research program, currently more than 100 research projects worth nearly $8 million, investigates numerous issues, such as identifying new refrigerants that are environmentally safe. ASHRAE organizes broad-based technical programs for presentation at its semiannual meetings and co-sponsors the International Air-Conditioning, Heating, Refrigerating Exposition, the largest HVAC&R trade show in North America.
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ATLANTA - ASHRAE has published its first ever eBook for use on the Apple iPad.
The third and latest edition of "ASHRAE GreenGuide: The Design, Construction and Operation of Sustainable Buildings" is now available in an eBook format to allow iPad users convenient access to the book's guidance, which covers each stage of the building process, from planning to operation and maintenance of a facility, with emphasis on teamwork and close coordination among interested parties. The eBook follows ASHRAE's latest mobile apps on duct fitting databases and Standard 62.1, Ventilation for Acceptable Indoor Air Quality.
The GreenGuide eBook includes embedded links to other sections of the book and to graphics and relevant web pages.
"We want people to have access to ASHRAE guidance wherever they are, without having to carry around a hardback book," Sheila Hayter, chair of the organization’s Publishing and Education Council, said. "With the release of GreenGuide eBook, detailed information on the design of high performance buildings is as close as one keeps their iPad." The GreenGuide eBook is available as a download in Apple's iBooks store for $39.99 and requires the iBooks app.
I hope everyone enjoyed the holidays and is ready for what is coming in 2012 (all good things, I hope).
I encourage everyone to check and update their information online with ASHRAE. We will be putting out a roster and would like the most current information. We've noticed a number of members who have changed jobs and haven't changed their email or mailing address. Please take a minute to log in and verify your ASHRAE profile.
We have several scholarship opportunities for anyone studying mechanical engineering or going into a related field! Jarret Kelley was our last year’s recipient and we would like to have two this coming year. If you know anyone who would like to apply, please see the information later in this newsletter!
All members are invited to our Holiday Dinner this month at the Packard Museum (see page 1 [of the newsletter] ). It should be a great time with old friends and a little bit of Dayton automotive history.
With the ASHRAE Winter Conference on the horizon, you may ask "How can I get involved with technical committees?" Details are on page 6 of this newsletter. Not ready for a national presence? We still have plenty of opportunities at the local level. Join a committee, volunteer to present at a Student ASHRAE meeting, take a presentation out into the schools during Engineer's week - the possibilities are limitless! Just contact any member of the board listed on the left or come to our next board meeting (always the third Thursday of the month at 8 AM at Heapy Engineering). Here's a late Christmas present from me (actually, from SMACNA): New Free App Available! Duct Air Leakage Calculator. Search the Apple iTunes store for "SMACNA".
Happy Holidays!
Steve Meier,
President, Dayton ASHRAE
ATLANTA - Guidance on increasing energy efficiency in existing buildings through measuring and tracking efficiency and implementing an efficiency plan is featured in a new book from leading built environment organizations.
Energy Efficiency Guide for Existing Commercial Buildings: Technical Implementation provides clear and easily understood technical guidance for energy upgrades, retrofits and renovations by which building engineers and managers can achieve at least a 30 percent improvement in energy performance relative to a range of benchmark energy utilization indexes. It features practical means and methods for planning, executing and monitoring an effective program, based on widely available techniques and technologies.
"Energy efficiency improvement in buildings is one of the greatest means to increase resource efficiency, improve environmental stewardship and save operating funds," George Jackins, who chaired the committee overseeing the book, said. "More importantly, energy efficient improvement should happen because it makes good business sense. Good planning and on-going commitment is essential to maximizing investments in energy efficiency."
Improving energy in an existing building is an iterative process, but first you have to know where you are starting from, according to Jackins. The book recommends some tips on how to begin the energy savings process:
Energy Efficiency Guide for Existing Commercial Buildings: Technical Implementation is the second energy efficient guide for existing commercial buildings developed by the same group developing at the Advanced Energy Design Guide series for new buildings - ASHRAE, the American Institute of Architects, the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America and the U.S. Green Building Council and supported by the U.S. Department of Energy. In addition, the Building Owners and Managers Association and the U.S. General Services Administration were involved in its development. The first, "Energy Efficiency Guide for Existing Commercial Buildings: The Business Case for Building Owners and Managers," provides the rationale for making economic decisions related to improving and sustaining energy efficiency in existing buildings.
The cost of Energy Efficiency Guide for Existing Commercial Buildings - Technical Implementation is $75 ($64, ASHRAE members). To order, contact ASHRAE Customer Contact Center at 1-800-527-4723 (United States and Canada) or 404-636-8400 (worldwide), fax 404-321-5478, or visit www.ashrae.org/bookstore.
ATLANTA - An updated tool from ASHRAE provides a user-friendly interface to predict thermal comfort, based on the Society's standard for thermal environmental conditions.
ASHRAE Thermal Comfort Tool, Version 2, maintains consistency with ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 55-2010, Thermal Environmental Conditions for Human Occupancy. The standard specifies the combinations of indoor thermal environmental factors and personal factors that will produce thermal environmental conditions acceptable to a majority of the occupants within the space.
The tool makes thermal comfort predictions using several existing thermal comfort models, including the Adaptive and Predicted Mean Vote (PMV) models. Inclusion of these models can potentially improve occupant comfort by allowing engineers to more easily fine tune their comfort analysis to the particular needs of the occupants in the building.
"The software allows you to calculate the predicted thermal comfort for a human at a point in space," Bill Fleming, volunteer chair of ASHRAE's Publications Committee, said. "All you need to do a comfort analysis is some basic information about the thermal environment you want to model and a few things about the person you want to put in that environment."The cost of the ASHRAE Thermal Comfort Tool is $117 ($99, ASHRAE members). To
order, contact ASHRAE Customer Contact Center at 1-800-527-4723 (United States
and Canada) or 404-636-8400 (worldwide), fax 404-321-5478, or visit
www.ashrae.org/bookstore.
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