March Monthly Meeting with Morning Workshops

Location: U of I Water Center Building 322 E. Front Street Boise, ID 83702

Share Event Type: Morning Workshop (9:30-11:30am) & Lunch Meeting (11:45am-1:00pm) Speaker: Wade Conlan, ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer Wade H. Conlan, P.E., BCxP, CxA, LEED AP BD+C , has over 27 years of commissioning and design engineering experience and has completed projects in a variety of building use categories. Projects have included laboratories, central utility plants, hospitality, themed entertainment, pharmaceutical, gaming, mission critical, and healthcare. Wade is an active participant in many levels of ASHRAE, including being a past Chapter President, Regional Refrigeration Chair, and many roles at society. He is a Vice President nominee for 2023-2025 (two year term) and is currently a Director-at-Large on the Board of Directors. Wade joined as a student in 1994. Wade has chaired the Environmental Health Committee, lead the ASHRAE Epidemic Task Force’s Building Readiness Team, chaired SPC 110 – Method of Test for Fume Hood Performance, chair of TC 9.10 Laboratories, voting member of SSPC 300 – Building Commissioning, voting member of GPC 1.1 and chair of GPC 1.6P – Commissioning for Data Centers. We look forward to seeing you there! For a virtual meeting link, please sign-up here: https://uidaho.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkdO-oqTgjGNHYtuZxHY5LjZbdUJ2W3_rG Event Schedule Morning workshop sessions • 9:30 AM – Monitoring Based Commissioning and Fault Detection Diagnostic • 10:30 AM – Improve Energy Performance while Maintaining IEQ through Retro-Commissioning • Light Refreshments Provided! Monthly Meeting • 11:45 AM – ASHRAE Standard 241-Control of Infectious Aerosols • Lunch Provided! Topic Description: Morning Session 1: Monitoring Based Commissioning and Fault Detection Diagnostics: Using Big Data and Engineering to Improve Facility Performance Buildings are using way more data points for their operation, beyond the HVAC systems BAS, to be able to measure and verify that they are operating within energy and comfort parameters. The use of Monitoring Based Cx (MBCx) or Fault Detection Diagnostics (FDD) for ongoing commissioning can help keep the systems in line for energy use as well as maintaining a high level of IEQ. These processes can also be used for improving the existing buildings in an owner’s portfolio. Learn how to use MBCx and FDD, in your designs, construction, commissioning, and retro-commissioning of the built environment. Morning Session 2: Weighing the Pig vs. Making it Fly: Improve Energy Performance while Maintaining IEQ through Retro-Commissioning A lot of existing building stock needs to have its energy, and thereby operational carbon, improved if we are to meet the challenges for net-zero energy or carbon-neutrality in the next few decades. The improvement of the existing building stock, which is often looked at as energy hogs, can be greatly improved through the retro-commissioning process. This session covers the stages of weighing the pig (benchmarking) versus actively making improvements for systems. Actual projects for laboratories, hospitality and gaming, and university facilities will be used to demonstrate how to use retro-commissioning to make your pig fly. Lunch Meeting: ASHRAE Standard 241-Control of Infectious Aerosols ASHRAE, through its Epidemic Task Force, provided timely leadership in responding to the COVID19 pandemic from March 2020 through June 2022. At the request of the White House, ASHRAE undertook its own project Warp Speed to build on that expertise for the future. In December 2022, the ASHRAE Board committed to quickly writing a standard to make buildings more resilient against infectious aerosols ahead of the next epidemic. In only four months the project committee created and won approval for ASHRAE Standard 241-2023. In this Lecture a member of the 241 project committee will provide a summary of the standard including its purpose, scope, and key requirements with supporting background. Tickets $0.00 ASHRAE Member – Morning Workshops AND Lunch Meeting $0.00 ASHRAE Me