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OCTOBER GAZETTE | Our 94th year!
October, 2015 - Vol 63, Issue 1
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| Board of Governors |
President
President-Elect
Honeywell Building Solutions
Vice President
Treasurer
Antonio Figueiredo
Secretary
Past President
Dynergy
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President's Message
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Welcome to ASHRAE Toronto Chapter's 2015-2016 Year!
Your Chapter Executive, Board of Governors, Committee Chairs and volunteers have prepared an exciting program for the upcoming year. The process of locking down venues, speakers and special events for the entire season is just about complete at this early stage in the year.
I have targeted two major objectives for accomplishment during my year as President:
✔ Further expanding the Chapter volunteer base
✔ Increasing the number of consulting engineers participating and providing leadership in Chapter Committee and Board of Governors activities.
I joined Toronto Chapter in 1984 and or the first fifteen or so years regularly attended dinner meetings and events but never participated as a volunteer. I accepted offers to take on some small tasks to assist the Chapter in subsequent years and found that it was both interesting and rewarding work. I took on many additional projects and more senior roles since then culminating in this year as President. This is volunteer work. You do it because you want to. The entire Toronto Chapter team is working for you because the leaders and volunteers enjoy what they do.
I am most impressed with many of our current volunteers who didn't wait fifteen years to become fully engaged but jumped right in with both feet even while still students!
This leads back to my two stated objectives both tied to volunteering. I would really like to see each consulting engineering firm in the GTA represented by at least one or two employees participating as volunteers this year. This challenge to place volunteers goes out to all other stakeholders in the local HVAC and R community as well.
It is your Chapter. This and subsequent years success will be driven by you!
Please reach out to myself or any other Chapter leader and begin a rewarding year as an ASHRAE Toronto Chapter volunteer.
Thanks to Glenn Kilmer for his outstanding service as 2014-2015 Chapter President and his many additional contributions as a Chapter volunteer over the years.
I look forward to meeting Chapter Members, Society Members and many other industry participants throughout the upcoming Chapter year.
Alan J. Porter, P. Eng
President - ASHRAE Toronto Chapter
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CTTC Schedule
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ASHRAE Toronto Meetings 2015/2016: Please click here to see ASHRAE Toronto's 2015/2016 Program Schedule. Please note that the schedule can change. Members will be prompted via email to register for upcoming events at TorontoASHRAE.com.
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Notice of Meeting
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October Dinner Meeting
and Student Night
Monday, October 5th, 2015
5:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Hotel Novotel
High Comfort, Low Impact Design
 The built environment is more than the physical building. Modern engineering and design explores all factors affecting the occupant experience - including their variation in time and space. Indoors or outdoors, a climate is continually changing. Engineers and architects must implement truly effective dynamic solutions that work with this natural variability, not against it. While new technologies are constantly being developed and finding innovative applications, we recognize that technology alone is not the answer. As leaders in the building science field, we all must be pioneers in implementing passive design strategies, and pride ourselves in their application in built, significant projects, both large and small.
The product is a process. We ask difficult questions, challenge convention and propose new solutions, and thoroughly test ideas. Each project requires both sharing our knowledge and generating new ideas - ultimately creating unique experiences, but always achieving the same goal: High Comfort, Low Impact.
Krista Palen
Transsolar Inc.
B.Sc End, MDesign
Krista is a climate engineer with a passion for design at the intersection of architecture, engineering, computation, and ecology. Krista will discuss Transsolar's approach including daylight, natural ventilation, solar shading, thermal, and comfort simulation to develop and validate low-energy, architecturally integrated climate/energy concepts for projects. The result of this approach is celebrated projects such as Manitoba Hydro Place that simultaneously enhance human experience and minimize resource use.
Before joining Transsolar Krista worked as a teaching assistant at the Harvard GSD, as researcher with MIT's Sustainable Design Lab, as a designer with the Harvard Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Design and as a green building consultant with Halsall Associates in Toronto.
Need Assistance? Feel free to contact the following members for further details:
Brendan McDermott ASHRAE Toronto Chapter Technology Transfer Committee Chair
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Gazette Sponsors
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ASHRAE Toronto Chapter thanks the following
companies for their support of the Gazette
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Special Announcement
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ASHRAE Toronto Chapter is excited to announce a joint Trade Show Event with Toronto Sheet Metal Contractors Association. To be held on November 2nd at the Sheraton Parkway Toronto North in Richmond Hill.
This event will provide an opportunity to peruse the latest in sheet metal, plumbing and HVAC product lines carried by local distributors or manufacturers along with the opportunity to network with the engineering community. Food stations will be provided in service from 4:00 pm until 6:00 pm. Following the trade show will be two lectures, Mr. Devin Aballon (ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer) on Slab Cooling for LEED Credits and Mr. Eli P. Howard III (SMACNA Executive Director Technical Services) on Seismic Bracing.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Toronto Chapter CTTC Chair 2015-2016
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May Meeting Summary
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May 2014 Dinner Meeting Summary
Natatorium Design & Dehumidification
The May Dinner presentation was provided by Mr. Ralph Kittler, Director of Sales & Marketing at Seresco Technologies Inc. He is a Professional Engineer and an ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer, well regarded in the HVAC industry as an expert in dehumidification and Indoor Pool Design. He has been in the dehumidification and Natatorium design field for 25 years.
The presentation covered many critical system design criteria for a Natatorium. Critical outcomes can occur when these design aspects are not properly implemented. In 2004, a natatorium in Moscow Russia failed after only 2 years of operation, as seen in the photo above.
These critical design criteria include:
Condensation control
Condensation control consists of controlling the inside surface temperatures and the prevention of migration of the moisture.
Indoor Air Quality and Air Distribution
Pool water quality is the single biggest IAQ problem. It also impacts the mechanical systems because the off-gassed chloramines have strong attraction to humidity in the air and when they condense, they are corrosive.
Energy Considerations
A natatorium space temperature is generally 10-15 ºF warmer than a typical room. Energy recovery systems generally perform well since the latent energy absorbed by water evaporation is returned when moisture is condensed. This energy can be used to heat the pool water.
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June Golf Tournament and Cycling Tour
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Golf Tournament
1st Place: 62-Jason Vandale,Kevin Sharples,Elaine Hopkins,Ian MacInnes.
2nd Place: 64-Glenn Kilmer,Brad Bull, Ed Carney, Bill Browne
Closest to the Pin Woods # 5: David Sinclair Closest to the Pin Woods # 8: Peter Cole Closest to the Pin View # 4: David Woodruff Farthest from the Pin Nobleton Lakes # 4: Mauro Vercesi
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Technical Retro-Commissioning Approach Training Summary
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Technical Retro-Commissioning Approach Training Summary
Conducted on September 16th and 17th, 2015
At the S. Walter Stewart Library, East York
Comprised of sixteen HVAC Professionals, three teams, and three energy audits of a library, this two-day seminar and workshop featured a technical retro-commissioning approach to identifying operational problems and "quick fixes", no-cost/low-cost measures, and capital improvement opportunities. The presenter and workshop mentor was Mr. Terry E. Townsend, P.E., Fellow ASHRAE, who served as president of ASHRAE in 2006-2007. He currently is president of Townsend Engineering Inc., Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Panama City, Florida. Materials and analysis methods were used, as described in the Building Energy Analysis Professional (BEAP) Certification Program and ASHRAE's building energy labeling program Building Energy Quotient (bEQ), to evaluate in-operation performance. ASHRAE Standard 100 - Energy Efficiency in Existing Buildings was also employed. This training has been held in Chicago, Milwaukee, Utah, and Bermuda, to name some places, but this is the first time this training has been held in Canada.
The training took place at S. Walter Stewart Library, East York. The first day was in-class. On the second day, a walk-through of the 26,000 sq. ft. library was conducted by the three teams of attendees. This workshop was in keeping with the goals of the Toronto Public Library: increasing energy efficiency in its buildings every year, becoming a model for sustainability, and providing education. The library provided utility information, floor plans, operational concerns, ideas that are being considered for energy improvements etc. Each team made a presentation to the library about their own findings and recommendations. All three teams made valuable suggestions and calculations for energy efficiency improvements such as lighting upgrades to LED; adjustment of temperature and enable set points; lowering the AHU duct static pressure; demand control ventilation; repair of duct insulation; occupancy sensors; installation of condensing boilers etc. Congratulations to the winning team: Ian Stahlbrand, WSP Canada Inc.; Marco Ottavino, Honeywell Building Solutions; Andrew Gledhill, Stardel Ltd; Irina Yablonovsky, CCI Group Inc.; Tom Kitson, Efficiency Engineering Inc.; and John Bell, The Hidi Group!
Thanks to the following people for helping me organize this event: Dragos Paraschiv, John Cusato, Doug Cochrane, Glenn Kilmer, Emma Wildeman, Dave Underwood, Jim Colton, and Marco Ottavino. Those who participated appreciated the excellent hands-on, team-based training. If you are interested in hosting similar technical retro-commissioning training activities at your site, please contact the ASHRAE Toronto Chapter.
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Viewpoint
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ASHRAE Toronto Chapter has enjoyed great support from the GTA consulting engineering community throughout its history. However when I look at the current makeup of the Executive, Board of Governors, Committee Chairs and volunteer databases, the Toronto consulting community is vastly under-represented in leadership and committee participation roles.
It is of great importance to the future success of the Toronto Chapter to gain increased volunteer participation from its consulting engineer membership. It can increase its influence in driving the types of local educational and technical events that most benefit its organizations and make it even more worthwhile for its colleagues and employees to attend the meetings and events.
I cite the Montreal Chapter as a prime example. From my observations, Montreal Chapter leadership and its supporting organization have a disproportionately large percentage of consulting engineer members in key roles. It has been this way as far back as I can remember. You can see the results of this strong representation in things like regular articles in the ASHRAE Journal on local Montreal area projects, entries/wins in most ASHRAE design award competitions and a large consultant turnout at each dinner meeting and event.
This goes a long way in elevating the Montreal engineering community's profile and recognition on the world stage and in ensuring continued participation in ASHRAE's Montreal Chapter by the consultant community.
Last year, Toronto Chapter put together a presentation targeting consulting offices to engage their employees in ASHRAE and to get feedback as to improving our programs. This has been rolled out to a number of firms already. We intend to visit a large number of firms during the course of this year to continue the effort.
Toronto Chapter President 2015-2016
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Chapter Technology Transfer Committee
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With the start of a new Chapter Program year rapidly approaching, we are very happy to announce our exciting Dinner Meeting program for the year. Our speakers this year will have a focus on Green Technologies and Energy Efficient Building System Integrated Design.
The first meeting will be on October 5th, at the Novotel Esplanade in downtown Toronto, and will feature a lecture by Krista Palen, from the Climate Engineering firm Transsolar, including daylight, natural ventilation, solar shading, thermal, and comfort simulation to develop and validate low-energy, architecturally integrated climate/energy concepts for projects.
In November we will be having Distinguished Lecturer Devin Abellon for our dinner meeting presenting Slab Cooling for LEED Credits. And the most important event of the year! Decemberfest 2015! We will have dinner at Wayne Gretzy's Restaurant and enjoy the sketch comedy Holidazed and Confused at the Second City Theatre after. This comedy is an all new collection of hilarious sketches, songs, and improvisations inspired by the season of merriment, mirth, and last-minute shopping. Invite your colleagues, friends and significant others!! It will be an amazing way of closing the 2015 year!
Toronto Chapter CTTC Chair 2015-2016
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Research Promotion Committee
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Welcome back to a new ASHRAE Season and a new fundraising goal for the Chapter.
On behalf of ASHRAE Toronto Chapter Board of Governors, I would like to thank the following individuals and organizations for helping Toronto Chapter exceed our 2014-2015 Research Promotion goal of $34,000. Toronto Chapter was successful in raising $35,895!
2014-2015 Golden Cirle Donors ($10,000 - $19,999)
- Enbridge Gas Distribution, Mr Bob DeGrasse
2014-2015 ASHRAE Associate Donors ($2,500 - $4,999)
2014-2015 Major Donors ($500 - $2,499)
- Mr Douglas C Cochrane
- Mr David A Benedetti
- Mr Glenn W Kilmer
- Mr Alan J Porter
- Mr Marco Ottavino
- Mr Antonio Figuerido
- Mr Peter Turk
- Carrier Enterprise Canada - Mississauga, Mr Douglas C Cochrane
- The Mitchell Partnership, Mr John S Lowden
- HTS Engineering Ltd, Mr Paul Pilutti
- Yorkland Controls Ltd
- Klimatrol Environmental Systems Ltd
- Nailor Industries
- Jalima Holdings Ltd, Mr H Linton Murray
2014-2015 Honor Roll Individual Donors ($100 - $249)
- Mr Joseph T Bauer
- Ms Jacqueline C Rueping
- Mr Michael Leo Loughry
- Mr Louis Sentesy
- Mr Stefan B Krajci
- Mr Michael A Rosenblitt
- Mr Miodrag M Premovic
- Mr Robert Mancini
- Mr John M Tojcic
- Mr Trevor John Caldwell
- Mr Joseph J Collins
- Mrs Jolanta McKay
2014-2015 Corporate Donors (Less than $250)
- The Hidi Group, Mr Andrew L Hidi
- Building Innovation
- DAB-Damper Air Balancing, Mr Dusan Firment
I look forward to contacting past and new donors as we work toward our 2015-2016 RP Campaign. This year we have been tasked with raising $35,000 for ASHRAE Research Canada. Thank you for your support so far this year and I look forward to hearing from you soon!
Sincerely,
Toronto Chapter Past-President 2015-2016
Toronto Chapter RP Committee Chair 2015-2016
glenn@kilmerenv.com
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Grassroots and Government Affairs Committee
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My exposure to the GGAC was as a committee member participating in discussions on just how to structure the committee and what goals we should have. Anne-Marie did an excellent job in organizing the group and keeping everyone focused. As a first step, we settled on a bEQ two-day training session with the City of Toronto.
I was very impressed with the resources the committee brought to the table where we were actually able to secure a venue; a City of Toronto Public Library.
I accepted the position of GGAC Chair and as the first order of business attended an introductory training course during the recent CRC-2015 meeting in Hamilton. With this background, and advice from other people, I feel comfortable in moving forward with a few ideas.
One of the ideas is this: Municipal building code inspectors have traditionally issued the Building Occupancy Permit based on compliance with fire safety regulations. What if we were able to expand those responsibilities to include:
- Building Envelope
- Lighting
- HVAC
- Service Water Heating
- Electrical Power Systems and Motors
With EE in buildings as a significant part of building codes, perhaps it's time to formalize these areas in the municipal building inspection process.
Toronto Chapter GGAC Chair 2015-2016
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I am proud to be this year's Membership Committee Chair for the largest chapter in ASHRAE Region 2. Being a large city with a large and diverse membership base, it comes with unique challenges and benefits. Such as appeasing all members with a variety of events, keeping members engaged in the chapter and ASHRAE society, and reaching out to non-members. It's a balance of efforts between those who share my passion for ASHRAE and those who have will soon share my passion for ASHRAE.
This is not an easy task with 387 members in the Toronto Chapter. To keep all our members engaged in the dinner meetings I plan to develop feedback mechanisms for the CTTC events. As well, keep your eye out for the slide show running during the dinner meetings recognizing both new members and old.
My ASHRAE journey started a short 5 years ago as a student. I have found reward both professionally and personally in these past 5 years, and my goal is to have non-members realize what they can get from joining ASHRAE. This year I will be running a "bring a colleague" night on November 2nd, if you bring a non-member to the dinner that night you will be entered into a raffle for a $50 gift certificate to the Keg.
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PAOE
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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.
Toronto Chapter President 2015-2016
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Young Engineers in ASHRAE
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Young Engineers In ASHRAE
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Monday October 5th is our first dinner meeting of the ASHRAE "new year". The dinner meeting is held at the Novotel on the Esplanade. I wanted to encourage you all to come to the dinner meeting then meet at the Bier Markt afterwards for some Monday night beers and mingling. Monday is student night, and all students are welcome as well.
Hope to see all of you there.
Michael GeninToronto Chapter YEA Chair 2015-2016
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I hope everyone had a great and resting summer!
Now the new school year is upon us once again!
Let's mark this new school year with ASHRAE's October meeting! It's student night and will be held at the Hotel Novotel, Downtown Toronto.
I hope to see all of you there, please feel free to email me with your questions.
The Winter conference this year will be in Orlando Florida!! Applications have already been sent out; please get in touch with your Student chapter president or email me for application information! Keep your checking the students page on the Toronto chapter website for more updates and information. I look forward to meeting all of you at this Octobers meeting.
Toronto Chapter Student Activities Chair 2015-2016
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TorontoWater Event
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Upcoming HVAC Industry Event: How to Leverage City Rebates to Boost Sales
The City of Toronto is inviting members of the Commercial HVAC industry to learn more about the Capacity Buy Back Program, which offers a free water audit and rebate to companies that install or switch to water-saving HVAC systems. To be held on October 14, this complimentary event will outline details of the program, how it can be leveraged to improve product sales and case studies from existing program participants.
Learn more about the event.
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Social Media
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We have grown our base of followers since we started our incursion in social media. We have been in Twitter and Facebook since 2011 and just last year launched our official LinkedIn page (check it out!).
Thank you to our 206 followers on Twitter, our 60 likers on Facebook and our new 33 followers on LinkedIn.
Do you want to know about what is happening with our chapter? Join the conversation!
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