Welcome to the new website for the ASHRAE Tucson Chapter!
Groundhog Day Happy Hour
Date: Thursday, February 2, 2012
Time: 5:00 - 7:00 pm
Location: 1702 (1702 E. Speedway)
Next Lunch Meeting (Acoustics)
Date: Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm
Location: Viscount Suite Hotel (4855 E. Broadway)
ASHRAE Tucson Chapter / USGBC Arizona Trade Show
Date: Thursday, March 15, 2012
Time: 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location: Pima Community College Downtown Campus (1255 N. Stone Ave.)
Click here to RSVP for the event (attendance is FREE)
2012 ASHRAE Tucson Golf Tournament
Date: Friday, April 27, 2012
Time: 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Location: Arizona National Golf Club (9777 E. Sabino Greens Dr.)
New Book Offers Guidance on Implementing Energy Savings Plan
December 14, 2011
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.
Call for Papers Extended for Cold Climate Conference
December 12, 2011
ATLANTA—The call for papers deadline for the Seventh International HVAC Cold Climate Conference, Nov. 12-14, 2012, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, has been extended to Jan. 6, 2012.
Cold Climate HVAC 2012, hosted by ASHRAE, will provide key elements of a strategy by which scientists, designers, engineers, manufacturers and other decision makers in cold climate regions can achieve good indoor environmental quality (IEQ), with a minimum use of resources and energy.
Technology Awards Highlight Outstanding Building Projects
November 28, 2011
ATLANTA – Designers of systems for a university building, a cancer center, an ice rink and other commercial building are recognized by ASHRAE for incorporating elements of innovative building design.
The ASHRAE Technology Awards recognize outstanding achievements by members who have successfully applied innovative building design. Their designs incorporate ASHRAE standards for effective energy management and indoor air quality. The awards communicate innovative systems design to other ASHRAE members and highlight technological achievements of ASHRAE to others around the world. Winning projects are selected from entries earning regional awards.
ASHRAE Announces Energy Modeling Conference
November 17, 2011
ATLANTA – An upcoming ASHRAE specialty conference seeks to advance the industry’s ability to more accurately model and simulate a building’s energy use.
ASHRAE’s Energy Modeling Conference – Tools for Designing High Performance Buildings is slated for Oct. 1-3, 2012 in Atlanta. The conference will guide building design professionals about what does and does not work when using currently available modeling tools to design and analyze buildings and their energy using systems.
ASHRAE Presidential Member Bellenger Remembered
October 20, 2011
ATLANTA— Immediate past ASHRAE President Lynn G. Bellenger, who served as the first woman president in the Society’s 116 year history, passed away Wednesday, Oct. 19. She was president for the 2010-11 Society year, with her term ending in June 2011.
Bellenger, P.E., Fellow ASHRAE, was a recognized expert in energy management, with a strong focus on the need for energy modeling to help create and refine more efficient buildings. She was a partner, Pathfinder Engineers & Architects, Rochester, N.Y.
New Guidance Released to Help Schools Earn Top Marks in Energy Efficiency
October 13, 2011
ATLANTA—Inefficient lighting, uncontrolled plug loads and poorly insulated roofs are just few of the factors that can contribute to a failing grade in energy consumption for K-12 school buildings.
Fortunately, guidance is available to help design teams constructing K-12 school buildings cut annual energy use by 50 percent or more using off-the-shelf technology.
To help ensure schools receive an A+ in energy efficiency; owners, engineers, designers, architects and others on the building team are encouraged to download the free Advanced Energy Design Guide for K-12 School Buildings: Achieving 50% Energy Savings Toward a Net Zero Energy Building. The guide is the second to be released in a series which provides recommendations to achieve 50 percent energy savings when compared with the minimum code requirements of ANSI/ASHRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1-2004, Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings.
ASHRAE is Supporting Sponsor of Solar Decathlon 2011
September 23, 2011
ATLANTA—ASHRAE is proud to once again shine a light on the key role solar energy will play in the development of net-zero energy buildings as a supporting sponsor of the Solar Decathlon 2011.
The Decathlon—sponsored by the Department of Energy and held on the National Mall from Sept. 23-Oct. 2—is a competition in which 20 teams of college and university students compete to design, build and operate the most attractive, effective and energy-efficient solar-powered house.
Welcome our new President: Robert Kunkel
The 2011-2012 theme set by Society President Ronald Jarnagin is "Sustaining ASHRAE Through Leadership" which highlights the role ASHRAE members play as leaders in sustainable design and practices. Robert is excited to lead the Tucson chapter by example in the attempt to achieve the ASHRAE Chapter Sustainability Award which is awarded to chapters who obtain 200 points from the Sustainability Activities section of the President's Award of Excellence (PAOE). Robert's other goals for the Tucson Chapter include increasing monthly meeting attendance among members, non-members and students, encouraging new member participation on both the Chapter Board and on various Committees, and encouraging increased student involvement in chapter activities. In addition to achieve the points needed for the Sustainability Award, he is seeking to earn the minimum points in at least four of the five PAOE categories, which will continue to help keep the Chapter headed in the right direction.
Robert has been an ASHRAE member and regularly attended local ASHRAE meetings since 2005. He is a graduate of the University of Arizona and he has worked in the HVAC industry since 2005. Robert's background includes mechanical and plumbing design with an emphasis on central plant design and hospitals. Robert is a registered Professional Engineer in Mechanical Engineering and is a LEED GA. In his spare time he enjoys watching sports & movies, listening to music, outdoor activities and traveling with his wife.
Alternative to ASHRAE Standard 62.1 Ventilation Rate Procedure Proposed
July 1, 2011
September 23, 2011
ATLANTA – Public comment is being sought on the proposed allowance of an additional default value to the ventilation rate procedure in ASHRAE’s indoor air quality standard.
ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 62.1-2010, Ventilation for Acceptable Indoor Air Quality, sets minimum ventilation rates and other requirements for commercial and institutional buildings. The ventilation rate procedure provides a prescriptive method for determining minimum ventilation requirements. It accounts for pollutant sources from both the building and its occupants, and allows the designer to account for the efficiency of different ventilation systems when delivering outdoor air to the breathing zone.
New ASHRAE Handbook Volume Tackles Tall Buildings
June 20, 2011
ATLANTA – Tall buildings can be a tall order for HVAC designers. The newly published 2011 ASHRAE Handbook—HVAC Applications has a new chapter that focuses on the unique design issues that tall buildings present.
2011 HVAC Applications also contains 60 other chapters on a broad range of applications, written to help HVAC&R design engineers and others use the fundamentals, equipment and systems described in other ASHRAE Handbook volumes.
Proposed Operation and Maintenance Guideline Open for Public Comment
June 1, 2011
ATLANTA – Many buildings with great designs fade from green to grey when operation and maintenance isn’t carried out as intended, especially in regard to energy conserving systems.
A proposed guideline from ASHRAE, currently open for public comment, will help improve the performance of all buildings by providing guidance on optimizing operation and maintenance of buildings to achieve the lowest economic and environmental life cycle cost without sacrificing safety or functionality.
ASHRAE Guideline 32P, Sustainable, High Performance Operation and Maintenance, is open for public comment until July 4, 2011. For more information, visit www.ashrae.org/publicreviews.
ASHRAE Announces High Performance Buildings Conference
May 12, 2011
ATLANTA – Building upon its 2009 Net-Zero Energy Conference, ASHRAE seeks to advance the industry’s efforts to change the energy-use aspects of the built environment through its High Performance Buildings Conference: A Focus on Deep Energy Savings, March 12-13, 2012 in Mission Valley, Calif.
This conference will guide building design professionals, building owner/managers, building operating staff and government officials about what works and what doesn’t when tackling major improvements in energy efficiency, renewable applications and operating practices. With an attendance limited to 300, the conference will allow an exchange of ideas and dialogue to facilitate understanding of current energy saving efforts, share best practices and to establish an action plan to substantially improve energy efficiency in buildings.
ASHRAE 2010 BACnet Published
May 5, 2011
ATLANTA – A large collection of new technologies for emerging applications is contained in ASHRAE’s newly published BACnet standard.
ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 135-2010, BACnet – A Data Communication Protocol for Building Automation and Control Networks, allows building equipment and systems manufactured by different companies to work together. It is the only open, consensus-developed standard in the building controls industry. The new standard contains 19 addenda approved since the 2008 standard was published.
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