This will be my last Presidential Greeting to you in our final gazette of the chapter year. It has been an honour for me to serve as your ASHRAE Toronto Chapter President for a two year term.

I have had a great experience and a lot of fun. I also have had some great people supporting me over these last two years from our chapter board and committees. Thanks to our volunteers for all of your efforts in helping to make our chapter great.I could not have done it without you all.

Our chapter year starts July 1st and ends June 30th. Over the 2 years our chapter has accomplished a lot. I would like to share a quick snapshot of some highlights for these 2 years.

Earth Rangers tour
Fairmont Royal York Decemberfest Dinner
Career Fairs at Humber College and University of Toronto
The induction of the new University of Toronto Student Chapter
Joint meetings with the BCA Toronto Chapter and BOMA Toronto as well as ASHRAE Hamilton Chapter
Lakehead University sponsored by ASHRAE Toronto Chapter wins ASHRAE International award for HVAC Design
Golf Tournament at Nobleton lakes
meeting at Ryerson Mattamy -Maple Leaf Gardens
Region 2 award for YEA Committee
Hosting the annual Canadian Regional Conference (CRC) in Toronto at the Fairmont Royal York. We topped off that event with a Presidents Dinner hosted at the world renowned CN Tower.

So as you can see we had a pretty busy two years from July 2012 up until present.

Our ASHRAE Toronto Chapter incoming President is Mr. Glenn Kilmer. Glenn has held numerous positions in the chapter on his way to coming onto the Executive Board 5 years ago. As a chapter we are in good hands as Glenn has great vision for our chapter and his work the last few years has helped our chapter grow a great deal. Look forward in handing over the ASHRAE Toronto Chapter gavel so he can take us with his lead to further heights.

NEED TO REMIND YOU ABOUT THE GOLF TOURNAMENT COMING UP AT NOBLETON LAKES GOLF CLUB.

We could use some more sponsors for this event. If you can get involved please contact Leo Borges, Glenn Kilmer or myself. We will get you set up as a sponsor for the ASHRAE golf day.

If you would like to find out more about what we have going on, please check out our website at www.torontoashre.com

Regards,

David Benedetti

President - ASHRAE Toronto Chapter

CTTC Schedule

ASHRAE Toronto Meetings 2014:

CTTC Schedule for Toronto Chapter

Please click here to see ASHRAE Toronto's 2014 Program Schedule. Please note that the schedule can change.

Members will be prompted via email to register for upcoming events at TorontoASHRAE.com.

Golf Tournament

ASHRAE Toronto 2014 Annual Golf Tournament

Monday June 16, 2013

Nobleton Lakes Golf Club

Hole Sponsors: 24 @ $500

Major Sponsors: 3 @ $2000

Foursomes: $900

Individuals: $225

Dinner Only: $75

Registration: 9am to 10am

Box Lunch TO GO

Shotgun 10:30am Sharp

Scramble Format

Limited to 216 golfers

Dinner to Follow at 5:00pm

Click Here to Register

Major Sponsorship includes one hole sponsorship, table at sponsored hole, table inside dinner reception area & speaker mention.

Gazette Sponsors

ASHRAE Toronto Chapter thanks the following
companies for their support of the Gazette

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Notice of Meeting

May Dinner Meeting

Monday, May 5th, 2014

4:45pm to 9:00pm

Il Fornello Restaurant

214 King St. W.
Toronto, ON

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ASHRAE Toronto Chapter presents a double headliner presentation:

Healthcare Laboratory Valve and Control Solutions - Nolan Hosking

&

25 York St. - Tony Dingman

We have a very busy double headliner presentation for our final dinner meeting of our calendar year. We will also be installing our Toronto ASHRAE Chapter Board of Governors for the 2014-2015 chapter year.

Because this final meeting is still not enough for our under 35 year old members, all YEA (Young Engineers in ASHRAE) members are invited to congregate at Grace O'Malley's Irish pub located at 14 Duncan Street after the dinner meeting.

Healthcare Laboratory Valve and Control Solutions

The presentation will cover room pressure control strategies and considerations for healthcare as well as fume hood face velocity and room pressure control for laboratory spaces.

Nolan Hosking

Product Manager - Price Industries

Nolan Hosking is a professional engineer and the Senior Product Manager for Critical Environment solutions at Price Industries.

With his extensive experience in healthcare and laboratory application engineering and design, Nolan oversees the development of all associated air distribution, ceiling system, control valves and DDC control solutions.

Nolan is a voting member of the ASHRAE 170 committee which is responsible for the North American standard governing ventilation of healthcare facilities.

25 York St. (Telus Tower)

Tony Dingman, P. Eng.

The Mitchell Partnership

A presentation will be as a follow up to the Technical Tours at 3 pm and 4 pm (seperate registration required, Toronto ASHRAE Chapter members only) on the mechanical systems of 25 York St.

Following the dinner meeting, all YEA (Young Engineers in ASHRAE) members are invited to congregate at Grace O'Malley's Irish pub located at 14 Duncan Street.

Need Assistance?

Feel free to contact the following members for further details:

Peter Turk

ASHRAE Toronto Chapter Technology Transfer Committee Chair

[pturk@victaulic.com]

Meeting Summary

CHUM Hospital: State-of-the-Art Healthcare Facility

Nick Stark, P.Eng. LEED AP, Vice President, Knowledge Management,

HH Angus & Associates Limited

April seventh's meeting was a joint Toronto and Hamilton Chapter event. The dinner presentation was by Nick Stark, P.Eng., LEED AP, Vice President, Knowledge Management, HH Angus & Associates Limited. The topic was the new University of Montreal hospital complex being built in downtown Montreal, CHUM (Centre Hospitalier de l'Universit� de Montr�al), pronounced "Shoom". This is the largest single healthcare complex under construction in Canada and the largest P3 project underway in North America. CHUM occupies more than 2� city blocks, rises 20 stories, with 5 clinical levels underground as well as parking for over 1200 cars, and has 354,000 m2 (3,800,000 ft2) of floor space. HH Angus was awarded the responsibility for the design of the mechanical and electrical systems. This firm was up to the challenge, in the last five years alone, the firm has designed over 10 million ft2 of healthcare facilities.

Rendering of CHUM (Centre Hospitalier de l'Universit� de Montr�al)

Ventilation design was one of the biggest challenges for the HH Angus team. A wind tunnel model was used to determine the locations of air intakes and discharges. To deal with the snowy Montreal weather, the RFP mandated 200 fpm louvre velocities for AHU intakes, based on 50% free area. One of the main requirements was to avoid recirculation or cross-contamination between interior departments. This will be achieved in an energy-efficient manner with high efficiency enthalpy heat wheels using 3-angtrom molecular sieve technology, installed in 100% fresh air AHUs. Variable volume supply and exhaust allow independent control while maintaining directional airflow. Critical function spaces will have 100% redundancy while other spaces will have 60% redundancy. Multiple AHUs will be manifolded together to provide redundancy if one of the AHUs is out of service. Each AHU will have dual fans, with each fan able to provide 60% of the required air flow.

The architects chose a curtain wall exterior to create a light atmosphere; however this posed considerable challenges for the interior humidity requirements. It was fortunate that triple glazing was also chosen because this helped a great deal in reducing heat loss and heat gain. Hot water heating was designed in a cascading arrangement of increasingly lower water temperatures and heat recovery. Secondary pumping networks with variable flow will be employed. Comfort cooling will be achieved with large variable-speed chillers and a variable-speed primary pumping system. Modular chillers will be used for process cooling.

Even with nearly 100% outside air, the HH Angus team's design is aiming to achieve 40% less energy consumption than the ASHRAE 90.1-1999 Baseline (Non-regulated loads such as process steam, process cooling and electricity consumption, and receptacle loads are not included in the calculation). A substantial amount of metering will be employed according to RFP requirements.

The massive CHUM hospital complex was a great design challenge, with approximately 12,000 rooms, many different mechanical systems, and formidable requirements for ventilation, redundancy and energy efficiency, not to mention the budget and timeline. Nick Stark and the HH Angus team employed their extensive hospital design experience gained over the years. The result is a state-of-the-art facility which will no doubt lead to their involvement in many more large P3 projects in the future.

Anne-Marie Bundgard

Website & Gazette Committee Member

Meeting Photos

Viewpoint

Viewpoint on ASHRAE Region II CRC 2013

Each region (we are the only all Canadian Region II) holds a Chapters Region Conference (CRC) every year. All 9 chapters from Windsor to Halifax get together with regional officers and society officers to discuss what is working or no working for chapters, propose candidates for ASHRAE leadership positions, attend workshops for the committees (like CTTC, Student Activities, Membership, Research Promotion, Grassroots Government Affairs, History) and propose motions for changes they would like made in either the region or society. There is also an update of society activities. ASHRAE is a grassroots society and any member can express their opinion. Every session is open and any member can express their opinion. Every session is open except Caucus, where the alternates and delegates are proposing names for senior leadership roles. Each chapter gets a change to host every 9 years and includes social events and a companions program. 2013 was Toronto's turn again as we last hosted in 2004.

The Region II CRC held August 23-25 at the historic Fairmont Royal York Toronto was a big success. We were able to get an amazing $35,000 in sponsorships, and exceed the minimums for the hotel so we were able to post a profit and return half to the regional fund as per the guidelines. Thanks to all the companies that sponsored this event - without you this would have not been as successful.

This function had been planning for a while. We were able to negotiate a hotel contract with a room rate of $169/night and get a 10% rebate on food and beverage, meeting rooms, and hotel room rentals at the hotel. The contract was already signed, when at the Ottawa CRC it was voted for the future CRCs to start Friday morning at 9 am. This meant additional costs for meetings rooms, Friday morning coffee break, and Friday lunch. We also got the opportunity to have our Saturday wrap up Presidential Dinner at the CN Tower. As an opening came up which was the pinnacle for the event. As a result registration fees had to be adjusted upwards and changes made.

We were able to keep expenses down with several of the chapter members and their companies donating time, money, and resources (like LCD projectors, photocopying, long distance phone calls, etc.). This was very much appreciated.

We had a technical seminar (including continental breakfast) on BIM with DL Dennis Knight Friday morning that went over really well and was standing room only.

The registration went online this year with a later penalty for those who registered after July. Even still we had people trying to register later and even add the CN Tower at the conference.

It was a perfect setting as we were able to have all Saturday committee workshops on the same floor, and the hotel was able to handle all of our requests.

With the Friday morning start more people stayed over Thursday night, which allowed us to meet our hotel minimums even moving the Saturday dinner to the CN Tower.

The Friday night Welcome Part was in Salon 1 with a carving station, appetizers, antipasto, dessert, etc. and 2 drinks per person. We had dessert set up in the history room so everyone could see the display and was very well received.

With the hotel contract, we had a hospitality room where we could supply our own food and beverage which significantly reduced our costs. To help keep the finances in check, we made up tickets for all events and collected them. This proved to be very successful.

The conference seemed to run smoothly with no real problems, and there were a lot of really positive comments.

Here are some of the accolades:

From Dan Pettway ASHRAE Vice-President:

Excellent choice of venue - a lovely historical hotel, an equally impressive staff, and good location.
Excellent social activities.
Large and very well organized CRC committee of 15 to 20 core members assisted during the event by another 15 to 20
The CRC featured an excellent companion's program.
Outstanding budget use. Toronto is an expensive location.

From Bill Bahnhleth ASHRAE President:

The setting, the historic Fairmont Royal York hotel could not have been better.
The host committee put together a conference that took full advantage of the urban setting - food, entertainment, monumental buildings.

A true success! Toronto Chapter should be proud and hold your head high - you deserve it. We have set the bar for future CRCs.

My personal thanks to all of the ASHRAE Toronto Chapter who helped (too many to list indibidually). The Chairs and their teams did a great job, and you made this CRC rock!

Doug Cochrane, P. Eng.

CRC Region II 2013 General Chair

Past President Toronto Chapter and BOG Member

CTTC

Chapter Technology Transfer Committee

The May 2014 Dinner meeting will be our last dinner meeting of the calendar year. It has been my honour to serve the chapter as the CTTC chair. I wish to thank the membership and guests for the excellent attendance we have enjoyed this past year. As of the April meeting we had sold out three of our dinner meetings this year. I apologize to everyone who was unable to attend those events, the increased interest in our dinner meetings has been a surprise. Our March dinner meeting and commissioning seminar had 154 attendees, which might be an attendance record. We will be looking to book larger venues for the 2014-2015 calendar year.

The first Monday of the month rules! See you in May and starting again in October.

Peter Turk

CTTC Chair ASHRAE Toronto Chapter 2013-2014

GGAC

Grassroots and Government Affairs Committee

The Grassroots Government Activities Committee (GGAC) is an ASHRAE standing committee responsible to keep our chapter members informed on current government activities and issues that relate to local government entities. Another responsibility is to be an information resources to the local government on ASHRAE updated code and standard related to building systems, energy efficiency, indoor air quality, refrigeration and sustainability within the industry.

Ontario Industry Information:

Last year, we have seen high energy rate than projected, due to abnormal heat wave in July as well as the gas plant cancellation scandal.

According to Environmental Canada, it has been a coldest winter in decade and overall energy use and cost is up across eastern Canada.

The overall increase in energy use and long winter led to using up all the lower price natural gas reserve, which forced the natural gas supplier (such as Enbridge Gas) to purchase fuel at a much higher cost.

Ontario Energy Board (OEB), has approved the short term rate increase in reflection of the situation.

In Ontario, natural gas accounts for approximately 15 percent of the province's electricity generation. Thus increase in natural gas rate lead to higher electricity rate.

The Ministry of Energy has put in place a new "Conservation First Framework" to save 7,000,000 MWh from January 2015 through the end of January 2020. The Ontario Power Authority (OPA) has been tasked to review and present their Conservation Demand Management (CDM) program strategy by May 1, 2015 to show how the funding program will support their customers to achieve cost effective energy efficiency initiatives.

If you are interested in getting involved in GGAC on a chapter level, please let me know.

Further information can be found in ASHRAE Government Affairs website.

Christine Choi

ASHRAE Toronto Chapter Grassroots Government Affairs Committee Chair

Membership

Hello,

I wanted to provide you with an update with membership numbers from the chapter.

Please see breakdown of membership this year:

Our goal as assigned by the Regional Vice-Chair for Membership was to grow our chapter's membership by 17 members (not including students). From July 1 2013 to April 28 2014 we gained 33 new chapter members (have joined ASHRAE society as well as the local Toronto ASHRAE Chapter).

8 - Full member
19 - Associate members
6 - Affiliate members

(if you are interested in learning more about the membership grades, go to: https://www.ashrae.org/membership--conferences/benefits/membership-grades-benefits-and-qualifications-)

We also saw 75 new members of ASHRAE society affiliated with our chapter (joined ASHRAE but not the Toronto chapter). When you join ASHRAE, you are defaulted to the nearest local chapter (i.e. Toronto, Hamilton, London etc.) and that is who you roll up under - whether you decide to pay dues and join the local chapter or not.

Student Activities and the Toronto chapter team did a great job this year. With emphasis on student involvement, new student chapters and students themselves getting more involved and interested in ASHRAE and all it offers. We saw 91 new student members affiliated to our chapter from July 1 2013 to now! These are the future members, board of governors, chairs and presidents of the chapter. It is encouraging to see more and more interest from our student members.

Keep in mind we will be drawing prizes for new members. It's not too late to have your colleagues or associates join. They will be entered for a chance to win a gift certificate. We will also be drawing a prize for Toronto chapter members that have brought guests with them to prior ASHRAE meetings (Feb-May).

Regards,

Marc Bertolin

2014 Toronto Chapter Membership Chair

Research Promotion

There are only two months remaining in Toronto Chapter's 2013-2014 research promotion campaign.

We are currently at 30% of target which is well ahead of last year's standing at this point in time. The majority of the donations come in during the last two months of the campaign. Donations must be received at Society prior to June 30th to count toward this year's goal.

Please forward your contributions now to ensure Toronto Chapter achieves its contribution target. To make your investment in ASHRAE Research, go to www.torontoashrae.com Click on Donate/Pay Invoice Tab on the upper toolbar. Click on Donation: ASHRAE Research Canada. You can make your payment by credit card or Paypal just as you do for meeting and event registration.

Thank you again for your support.

Alan J. Porter, P. Eng.
Chair, Research Promotion ASHRAE Toronto Chapter 2013-2014

PAOE

PAOE or Presidents Award Of Excellence, provides the chapters in Region II with a means of measuring success across a wide range of chapter operations. It is meant as a tool to guide the Board of Directors and Committee Chairs towards their goals. Below is a summary of PAOE Points for all of the Chapters in Region II so far this year.

Glenn Kilmer
ASHRAE Toronto Chapter - President-Elect

YEA

It looks like all 3 of the YEA members who attended the leadership weekend have made it back with only positive things to share. You can read Emma's view-point which was featured on the previous gazette. The next dinner meeting in May has a young engineer theme. I encourage all of our YEA members to register for the event which at IL Fornello on King St. West. Afterwards all YEA members are welcome to congregate at Grace O'Malley's Irish pub located at 14 Duncan St - which is about a 2 minute walk from the dinner meeting. This will be another great opportunity to network with other ASHRAE members before we take a break for summer - looking forward to seeing everyone there!

Michael Genin
2012-2013 YEA Committee Chair

Student Activities

It has been a very busy year with many things on the go. Looking back I do have some people to thank:
I would like to thank all of the Faculty Advisors for their hard work in supporting their students, encouraging them to attend meetings and start their careers with ASHRAE. The Faculty Advisors are a big part of the success of the student branches, thank you to: Alan, Dragos, Filimon, Jeffrey and Ted.

I would like to also thank all the student branch presidents who decided to take on this special role while being a full time student. It is no small task! I hope your experience helped you to grow outside of your shell and inspire you to be more involved in the Toronto Chapter! The student activities committee will be looking to grow the team next year and expand its role in the chapter. As a graduating student branch president, you would be an asset to our committee.

To all the excited graduates this year:

Congratulations! You survived. These were some of the most fun (perhaps challenging) years of your life. Now that you are mostly grown up (with a few letters to add to your name), it is time to join YEA! That's right, you can have another set of letters to your name! YEA is the Young Engineers in ASHRAE. You don't need to be an engineer, but you do need to be an ASHRAE member, and under the age of 35. YEA offers some of the best conversations and social events, with people who simply get you. Your friends won't enjoy nerding out and talking shop, but YEA members will! A major benefit of upgrading to YEA membership is; you will be a part of the SMARTstart program. You get the benefit of ASHRAE society membership for $20 the first year, $50 the second and $50 the third year! You need to sign up fast though, as prices will increase as of July 1st. After July 1st cost will be: $20, $73, $94! If you have any questions please email me and I will be happy to walk you through the process. Congratulations once again and remember to join YEA! It's the SMARTstart to a great career!

All the best in the summer. Look forward to another great year starting next October 2014.

Please contact me if you are interested in joining the Student Activities Committee.

Michael McEvenue
Student Activities Chair 2013-2014