Granite State ASHRAE Newsletter – September 2022
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Recent Granite State ASHRAE Activities
Greetings!
I would like to welcome you all to another year of events with the Granite State ASHRAE. There are many new and important initiatives going on at ASHRAE and we will do our best to keep you informed of them. Once again this year, we will provide a mixture of "in person" events, as well as our popular webinars. If you have topics you would like us to cover, please feel free to drop me an email and make some recommendations. ASHRAE is a large organization with many areas of expertise, so if there is a topic or subject of particular interest, the chances are good we can find someone to discuss it. And if you are willing to become involved with our local chapter operations, please let me know. We can always use additional help on our committees.
In this month’s issue, I will provide an update on the following topics:
- Our Golf event in June of this past summer
- The Chapter Regional Conference held recently here in NH
- The UNH Student Chapter Initiative
- Granite State ASHRAE Programs update for October/November
Granite State ASHRAE Golf Event
We would like to thank our sponsors and participants for another Granite State ASHRAE gold outing this summer. The event was held on June 23rd this year to allow funding raising for our CRC event. We had over 50 people attend the event representing 13 different teams.
I would like to thank our sponsors for their support including Gold Sponsors Design Day Mechanical, Raypak and Saniflo. Our Silver Sponsors included Buckley Associates, The Granite Group,and Spirotherm. And our Bronze Sponsors included Bruce Buttrick, Denron-Hall, CSI Engineering, Peerless Boilers, Tower Hill Sales, and Victaulic. We sincerely appreciate your support of our chapter and the contributions you made to our successful CRC event.
Chapter Regional Conference Event
We had a very memorial ASHRAE Regional 1 Chapter Conference Event at the Marriott Grappone Convention Center in Concord NH, August 25-27, 2022.
There were a total of 95 ASHRAE members who participated at in the event, along with many family members. Activities included the necessary business meetings, as well as a member companion trip to Bretton Woods for a ride up the Cog Railroad, an evening dinner/dance cruise on the M/S Mt. Washington on Lake Winnipesaukee, and Young Engineers in ASHRAE (YEA) Pub Crawl around Concord. The Chapter Committee workshops were held in conjunction with the business meeting and an awards luncheon and wrap-up were conducted on Saturday.
The Companions trip was a huge success as there were 32 adults and children who went on the bus up to the Cog Railroad. They had a spectacular weather day on the summit, and encountered the torrential downpours on the bus ride back to Concord.
The new President of ASHRAE Society Farooq Mehboob attended the event this year. Farooq is from Pakistan and has a long history of involvement with ASHRAE ranging from serving on the ASHRAE on the Board of Directors, chairing the Appointments Roadmap Committee, as well as the Publishing and Education Council, acting as coordinating officer of the Conferences and Exposition Committee, coordinating officer of the Historical Committee, coordinating officer of the Training and Education Committee and coordinating officer of the Development Committee, among other participation. He spoke to us on the evening of the dinner cruise about his early life as a young engineer responsible for a major western hotel in Pakistan during times of political turmoil and personal risk to him and his family. His focus on diversity, equity, and inclusivity, together with the need for transparency and participation was refreshing to hear. If you would like to learn more about Farooq and his vision, please have a look at this link:
I would like to thank our sponsors of the CRC event including our Platinum Sponsors Carrier, Johnson Controls, and Trane; our Gold Sponsors F.W. Webb Company, Victaulic and Spirotherm. Our Silver Sponsors included Denron Hall, ED-OS, Tower Hill, Fulton, FIA, Urell and Viega. And our Bronze Sponsors ADC, Buckley Associates, Raypak, COREM2M. Special thanks also go out to Belimo for sponsoring our hospitality suite.
Special thanks also goes out to the CRC Planning Committee for all their hard work and late nights including Josh Benoist, Bruce Buttrick and John Grout. Thanks to Dave Dussault for taking on the duties as the CRC Business meeting secretary, Ralph Draper for filling in as an alternate, and Rick Knowlton for helping with registration.
Granite State ASHRAE Region 1 CRC Sponsors
The UNH Chapter Initiative
As you are aware, our future belongs to our children. So once again this year we are attempting to encourage some young engineers to become involved in the building sciences with ASHRAE. I have been coordinating with our Student Chapter Advisor Matthew L'Heureux and our Student Facility Advisor Ivo Nedyalkov, to reestablish the ASHRAE Student Chapter at UNH. Ivo has been our Student Facility Advisor now for a number of years. Matt is a Campus Energy Manager at UNH and is part of the Energy and Utilities group overseeing the energy efficiency programs. Matt is also a UNH graduate and will be of great benefit to us in the recruitment and ongoing management of the UNH ASHRAE Chapter.
On February 18th of this year we had a recruitment event at UNH in Kingsbury Hall to encourage some new students to join our chapter. It's been a tough couple of years with COVID related issues that had resulted in a reduction of participation in our existing UNH student chapter. So we were pleased to have about 15 students come and listen to why they should join our UNH Student Chapter. I would like to thank Ivo and Matt for their help, as well as Maddie Goldberg and Tyler Wilson of our chapter for coming along and helping to encourage the students. We plan to have another of these events this fall and hope to put together a team to enter the years Applied Engineering Challenge. This years challenge is focused on monitoring indoor air quality using a handheld device that people can carry with them. For more information on this competition please have a look at this link.
If any of you are interested in advising on this project, please reach out to me or Matt L'Heureux and we will connect you with the team. The UNH team won the challenge in 2018 and received a $5,000 and trip to Atlanta for their efforts. Go Wildcats!!
Granite State Programs Update
The Programs for 2023 are beginning to take shape and will focus on the the issues of energy efficiency and indoor air quality. As you know, these two issues are tightly linked as clean outdoor air can be expensive to bring into the building in our region of the world.
To begin our series this year we will start off on October 27th at 9 AM with a presentation by Dru Crawley on the new ASHRAE decarbonization effort. Dru is Bentley Fellow and Director, Building Performance Research focusing on building performance, zero-energy Buildings, decarbonization, digital twins, smart cities, sustainability, and resilience. Prior to being elevated to Bentley Fellow in 2014, he led development of Bentley’s building performance software suite for four years. Before joining Bentley in 2010, Dru developed and managed EnergyPlus and the USDOE’s Commercial Buildings Initiative (now Better Buildings Initiative and Alliances) promoting creation of net-zero-energy buildings.
His presentation will describes the basics of building decarbonization including building carbon dioxide and other emissions, key drivers for decarbonization, how carbon impact is measured, and the accepted international standards for defining carbon life-cycle calculations. The key decarbonization methods are then described including offset strategies, electrification technology applications, and ways they can be implemented in the building sector. Finally, the efforts that ASHRAE already has under way to provide relevant information about decarbonization to the membership, and to embed decarbonization in our standards and guidelines.
On Wednesday, November 30th, we will hear from Bill Healy on the the recent work he has been involved with on the residential indoor air quality standard. Bill is is the Chief of the Building Energy and Environment Division of the Engineering Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).He currently serves as Chair of ASHRAE's Residential Buildings Committee. He has served as a voting member on ASHRAE TC 7.5: Smart Building Systems, ASHRAE TC 4.4: Building Materials and Building Envelope Performance, and SPC 146: Method of Testing and Rating Pool Heaters. He also served on a Working Group for ASHRAE's Task Force for Building Decarbonization. Additionally, Dr. Healy is an instructor in the Johns Hopkins University Engineering for Professionals program, where he has taught courses entitled Energy and the Environment, Thermal Systems Design and Analysis, Applied Heat Transfer, and Scientific Computing.
We would like to thank those of you who are Granite State ASHRAE members, and for those readers that may not already be a member, please join us by becoming a member at this link: Join ASHRAE.
We are continually trying to improve our mission to help educate our community of issues of energy and our environment and your participation can help us make a difference in your community
And please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any topics or subjects you would like is to cover for you or your company.
Paul Bemis
President Granite State ASHRAE
[email protected]
603-369-6085
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