Date/Time
Date(s) - Thursday, October 15, 2015
5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Location
Victoria Inn Hotel & Convention Centre
Best Practice for Evaluating and Improving the Performance of Commercial Buildings
Bruce D. Hunn, Ph.D., ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer
This presentation describes the implementation procedures for the performance measurement protocols documented in the 2012 ASHRAE publication “Performance Measurement Protocols for Commercial Buildings: Best Practices Guide”. This how-to guide provides practical steps and tools for continuously monitoring, evaluating, and improving the performance of commercial buildings throughout their service life. It supports integrated commissioning and all activities of the O&M team to ensure that their buildings are green, energy efficient, highly productive, and healthy. A process and tools are provided to quantitatively evaluate building performance at three levels of application.
About Bruce:
Bruce D. Hunn, is a consultant in building energy analysis and recently retired after nearly 15 years as Director of Technology/Director of Strategic Technical Programs at ASHRAE. He received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 1964, 1965, and 1972, as well as a B.A. in Engineering from the University of Redlands. He serves a Secretary of ASHRAE TC 7.6 (Building Energy Performance) and is a member of SPC 211 (Standard for Commercial Building Energy Audits). He is past chair of TC 4.7 (Energy Calculations) and past vice-chair of the Research and Technical Committee.
Prior to joining ASHRAE in 1997 he served as Head of the Building Energy Systems Program, Center for Energy Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, where he directed and conducted research in energy analysis of buildings, advanced cooling systems, fenestration systems, and standards development. From 1975–83 he was Associate Group Leader of the Solar Energy Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico. From 1971-75 he served as Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Clarkson College of Technology (CCT), Potsdam, New York.
Dr. Hunn is an ASHRAE Fellow, as well as a Fellow of the American Solar Energy Society, where he was elected chair in 1986-87. More recently he served on the Technical and Scientific Advisory Committee and Research Advisory Committee of the US Green Buildings Council.
Hunn has authored or co-authored more than 110 articles, technical reports and papers, along with eight books or chapters, including Solar Heating Technologies: Fundamentals and Applications. He has given numerous presentations on topics related to passive solar energy and energy efficiency in buildings.