Notice of Meeting

 

Theme: Membership Night
 

 

In the face of increasing energy costs and concerns over global warming, buildings are receiving increasing scrutiny to reduce their carbon footprint and cut their energy expenses. However, unlike IAQ of the 1970's, modern buildings must provide a healthy and comfortable indoor environment. Add to this the growing interest in making buildings green using the USGBC/CaGBC LEED guidelines and what is a building owner to do?

 

A big part of the answer to this question revolves around how a building controls outside air, according to Mr. Gordon Sharp, the chairman of Aircuity and our February dinner speaker.

Mr. Sharp's focus is outside air as the largest single driver of both a building's energy efficiency and its indoor environmental quality.  In the past, such approaches as economizers and demand control ventilation have attempted to reduce energy expenses by controlling outside air but the actual results over time have been mixed at best.  

 

Mr. Sharp's presentation will discuss a healthier and more energy efficient variation on demand control ventilation as well as how economizers can be operated more reliably with greater energy efficiency.  The key to improving the operation of these outside air control approaches is a new, cost effective, and highly accurate sensing technology that will be discussed known as multiplexed sensing. 

 

Additionally, a new approach for demand based control of air change rates in laboratory rooms will also be presented. This control approach can drop air change rates significantly when lab air is clean and increase it to higher, purge level rates when chemical vapors or particles are sensed in the room. This one approach has often been shown to be the single largest energy conservation measure safely applicable for many laboratory buildings. 

 

Case study examples will be presented of how this new technology is being employed in the new Bank of America Tower (world's largest green building), the new ASHRAE HQ, Arizona State University's 2006 Lab of the Year, the world's largest net zero project at Masdar City (UAE), and the first net zero school in the U.S.

Mr. Sharp has over 25 years of wide-ranging entrepreneurial experience and more than 25 U.S. patents in the fields of energy efficiency and laboratory controls. As founder, former president and CEO of Phoenix Controls, he led the development of this world leader in laboratory airflow controls that was acquired by Honeywell in 1998.  In 2000, Mr. Sharp founded Aircuity, a venture-capital backed company that was spun out of Honeywell and is focused on building energy and environment information systems for airside energy efficiency.

Mr. Sharp is a graduate of MIT with bachelors and masters degrees in electrical engineering.  He is a member of the ANSI Z9.5 Laboratory Ventilation committee, and a member of the board of directors of the International Institute for Sustainable Laboratories, the nonprofit foundation that cosponsors and operates the Labs21 conference.

Guests can now be registered with member registrations.

 

 

Robyn Ellis CTTC Chair with evening dinner speaker Mr. Ron Vogl, the Technical Marketing Manager for Honeywell Refrigerants Group, Morristown, New Jersey.

 

 
  

 

Marco Ottavino Student Activities Chair with Past President Allard Vegter, Robyn Ellis CTTC Chair and Roberto Battiston Attendance Chair review the count for the nights meeting.

 

 

 

Allard Vegter Research Chair putting the strong arm on Past President David Underwood for ASHRAE Research 50/50 tickets.

 

 

I would encourage all of our members, engineers, sales people, contractors and building owners alike to attend the WebCast and learn more about this important issue. ASHRAE has pulled to gether many resources and industry experts to compile the information that will be shared during the WebCast, a pear group that can shed light on all the important steps and processes required to be a success.

 

 

Membership Drive Contest - March through May 2010

 

Toronto Chapter Members

I encourage each of you who have not yet joined  to become a Toronto Chapter Member and a  committee volunteer.

 

 

 

Hello!
 
To those that have contributed in 2009 - THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT! 
 
 

Airex 

HTS Engineering Ltd
Yorkland Controls Ltd
Mr. T David Underwood
Mr. Karol Goldman
Mr. Jasani M Vallabhadas, PE
Mr. H Robert Bach, PE
Mr. Thomas E Zsenaty
Dr Eric Z Nejat
Hidi Rae Consulting Engineers Inc
Mr Miodrag M Premovic
Mr Michael Leo Loughry, PE
Klimatrol Environmental Systems Ltd
Mr Lyle W Norrie
Robyn Ellis

Mr Samuel Blackley

Mr Ashish A Saxena

Mr Allard C Vegter

Mr David A Benedetti

Mr Michael J Wadham

Mr Michael E Khaw

Mr David J Sage

Mr Jeff Jaffer

Mr. Antonio Figuerido

Mr. Dragos Paraschiv

Mr. Enzo Iantorno

 

Some of you have chosen to invest with ASHRAE Research online recently.  If you are planning to invest with us, I encourage you to visit our ASHRAE Toronto website and go here ASHRAE - Donate .  It is safe, quick and easy.
  Kind regards,
 
Allard Vegter, P. Eng., LEED AP
Toronto ASHRAE Research Promotion Chair
416 674 6744, ext227
allardv@eficoncepts.com

 Region II PAOE Update

The following table describes the measurement of our chapter activities relative to the other chapters in our Region. This measurement tool is developed annually in the listed categories by the society president for the direction of all chapter activities across the society, so we at the grass roots are all pulling in the same direction. Toronto chapter has usually been awarded a Presidential Award of Excellence at the annual CRC (chapters regional conference)

2009-2010 Presidential Award of Excellence (PAOE)
Chapter	Member Promotion	Student Activities	Research Promotion	History	Chapter Operations	Chapter Tech Transfer	Total PAOE Points
Quebec	310	5825	1115	300	315	450	8315
Montreal	100	0	655	125	335	400	1615
Ottawa	0	0	625	350	100	600	1675
Toronto	350	2350	355	250	835	325	4465
Hamilton	350	500	405	360	0	100	1715
Halifax	0	0	385	0	0	0	385
London	0	0	365	0	0	100	465
NB / PEI	120	110	1185	160	405	555	2535
Windsor	0	770	354	0	0	150	1274

Remember to notify one of your Board of Governors members if you or someone you know reviews an ASHRAE Society handbook chapter to make sure Toronto is awarded the resultant PAOE points!

The Young Engineers in ASHRAE Toronto Chapter is currently working on adding a YEA section to the ASHRAE Toronto Chapter website.  All the information regarding YEA Toronto will be published there once the update is completed.  We are hoping to have this section of the website completed sometime in February 2010, so keep your eyes open. 

 

Last October some of the Toronto YEA members attended a tour of Canada's Wonderland.  During the tour  they were able to view some of the HVAC systems that are in operation at this site.  The YEA members were shown the chiller plant, pumping stations and some of the air handling equipment that was being used for the main building.  Most of the equipment was installed in the early 80's and very little had changed since the original installation.  It is not very often that one will get to go behind the scenes at Canada's Wonderland so we were very thankful to them for hosting us and allowing us to see what type of HVAC equipment they had on the site.

 

After the tour the YEA members went on some of the rides braving the near freezing temperatures and pouring rain.  I must say that although some of the rides proved to be scary the weather on that particular night was definitely more frightful.  Thank you to all those that attended and the YEA committee hopes that you learned something and had a good time.  We look forward to seeing you at our upcoming events this year.

 

 

 

 

 

Registration forms will be available soon.  All golf tournament details will be posted on the ASHRAE Toronto website once they have been finalized.  Remember winter will soon be gone and we are looking forward to seeing you at this year's ASHRAE golf tournament.

 

Students in the Toronto Chapter

Upcoming Events:

January 2010: ASHRAE Winter Conference Orlando 2010

Every year the Toronto Chapter provides funding to student members interested in attending ASHRAE's Winter Conference. This year 13 students have been selected from four academic institutions (RyersonUniversity, University of Toronto, SenecaCollege and SheridanCollege) to attend the conference in Orlando, Florida from January 23^rd to 26^th, 2010. Students will have the opportunity to attend technical plant tours, participate in committee meetings, network with student members and young engineers from all over the world and, of course, attend the annual AHR Expo 2010. 

February 2010: Air Canada Center Technical Tour & Raptor's Game Event

Every month, students from ASHRAE's Toronto Chapter attempt to reconvene for a technical-related social event. With ASHRAE's Winter Conference in Orlando being the keynote event for January, students will have the opportunity to attend a technical tour of the Air Canada Center scheduled for February, 2010. Coordinated together with Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, this will be the fourth consecutive year ASHRAE's Toronto Chapter will be participating in this event! This event will include a detailed technical tour of the Air Canada Center facilities (including arena ice-making equipment), a technical overview from the ACC facility personnel and admissions to the Toronto Raptor's basketball game. This tour and sport's event will be held on Wednesday February 10^th, 2010 where the Raptor's will be taking on the Philadelphia 76'ers. Students have been offered a discounted rate of $28.00 per person. This event is only available to Student Members of the Toronto Chapter and their respective student guests and limited to no more than 35 attendees.  

Reaching Out to Chapter Members...

At January's dinner meeting, an announcement was made to all attendees regarding potential student technical tour opportunities at their places of employment and/or project sites. The Toronto Chapter has extended this opportunity to all ASHRAE members interested in facilitating a technical tour for motivated and enthusiastic student members. Special thanks to Rick Paterson of Honeywell, Peter Turk of Victaulic and Frank Lembo of Canatal for volunteering their workplaces for future technical tours in the remaining months of 2010.

Becoming a Student Member

To become an ASHRAE Society and Toronto Chapter member, students may contact:

Marco Ottavino, Student Activities Chair (Toronto Chapter) at marco.ottavino@gmail.com.

2009-2010 CTTC Program Schedule
Month	Location & Theme	Speaker & Topic
December 12/7/2009	Woodbine Racetrack Decemberfest & Awards Night	Awards Presentation by Allard Vegter
January 1/4/2010	Paradise Banquet Hall Refrigeration Night	Ron Vogl CFC Phaseout Schedule
February 2/1/2010	Holliday Inn Oakville Membership Night	Gordon Sharp Chairman of Aircuity
March 3/1/2010	Paradise Banquet Hall Government Affairs Night	Diane Green Health Issues and Building Effects of Schools in Low Humidity Environments
March 3/25/2010 to 3/27/2010	Metro Toronto Convention Centre North Building Sustainability at CMX/CIPHEX	Gordon Holness - Society President Sustaining Our Future by Rebuilding Our Past - Energy Efficiency in Existing Buildings - Our Greatest Opportunity  for a Sustainable Future
April 4/5/2010	Tour TBA - Sanofi Pasteur Research Promotion Night	Sanofi Pasteur Speaker TBA Innovation at the new Pharmaceutical R&D Facility
May 5/3/2010	Central Location & Tour TBA Life Members/Past Presidents	Speaker TBA Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute -St. Michael's Hospital

*This schedule is for planning purposes and subject to change.