Meetings are held the Thursday following the second Tuesday of every month, October through April.
Dinner meeting dates are as follows; topics are listed where presently known.
Guests are always welcomed!
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Monthly meetings are held at: Victoria Inn Winnipeg |
Meetings are scheduled as follows: 5:00 p.m. - Social Hour with Cash Bar |
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Future Presentations - 2011/12 April 12, 2012 Brian Dolin will discuss energy savings through the use of proactive defrost. His review of evaporator frosting will answer the questions:
Why and how does frosting happen?
How does frosting affect system efficiency?
How has frosting traditionally been controlled and removed?
How can the frost be used to increase efficiency?
Real World Energy Savings Through Proactive Defrost and VFD Fan Control, Brian Dolin, KE2Therm Solutions
He will discuss a new method of defrost control that improves system efficiency and minimizes system downtime. Case studies will be provided to demonstrate the benefit. VFD fan control will be touched on to suggest further energy savings.
Brian J Dolin is an award winning technical author who has been published in a number of languages. He has given presentation in Europe, Africa, North and South America and Asia. Active in the HVAC&R industry since graduating from Rutgers in 1974, Brian is a member of ASHRAE and RSES and is NATE and EPA certified. He held positions as Product Manager of Sporlan’s Electronic products department and Director of the Mechatronics Products Group before joining KE2Therm Solutions as Senior Training Manager. KE2Therm based in Washington MO offers electronically based energy saving products to the HVAC&R industry.
Past Presentations
March 15, 2012
High Performance Buildings and Occupant Comfort, ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer Dr. Peter Simmonds
Predicted Mean Vote/Percentage Persons Dissatisfied (PMV/PPD) can be used to produce optimal designs for a number of different applications. For example, a PMV/PPD evaluation informed the owner of an existing building how to improve occupant comfort and building efficiency. Peter Simmonds’s work showed that varying clothing levels and metabolic rates of occupants has a relatively small effect on comfort compared to changes in engineered variables such as dry bulb temperatures, humidity, air velocity and mean radiant exchange. His presentation will review the design process for example buildings, explain the intricacies of each solution and show how ASHRAE Standard 55 can be used as an effective design and analysis tool for modern designs.
Dr. Simmonds has Bachelor degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Research and Development from Reading Technical College, a Masters degree from HTS, Den Bosch, The Netherlands and a Ph.D. from T.U. Delft. He is a recognized authority in the field of radiant heating and cooling systems, as well as thermal comfort. His research and applications have improved understanding of the heat transfer and performance of radiant heating and cooling systems and has led to unique ways to enhance these systems. Peter has authored or co-authored more than 60 technical papers, articles and books. These publications facilitated acceptance of radiant systems in the USA and are referenced in ASHRAE Handbooks. He is a member of several ASHRAE Technical Committees, Standard 55 and serves on the Handbook committee. In his spare time, Peter teaches Graduate and Post Graduate Architectural students at the University of Southern California and Woodbury University. He received the 1993 CIBSE Carter Bronze Medal.
February 16, 2012
Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport 'Opening and Beyond', Mr. Russell Lavitt, SMS Engineering
The New Air Terminal Building opened for operation on October 30, 2011. The weeks and days prior were filled with intense preparation, but the day before a major challenge arose. This presentation will revisit that day and many other insights into the completion of the project, as well as ongoing status.
Russell Lavitt is a partner and senior mechanical engineer at SMS Engineering. He has, and continues to provide significant service to ASHRAE Manitoba, ASHRAE Region XI and to ASHRAE at the Society level.
December 9, 2011
***Research Promotion***
***Membership Promotion***
***ASHRAE Manitoba Cribbage Tournament***
Research and Membership Promotion Presentation
January 13, 2011
***YEA Night***
Construction Law Litigation, Mr. Kevin Williams, Taylor McCaffrey LLP
Kevin will be discussing how to avoid becoming involved in Construction Law Litigation and what to expect and how to prepare if you do become involved in litigation.
Kevin Williams, LL.B., is a civil litigator who for more than 20 years has specialized in insurance and construction law cases. He has argued construction law cases before all court levels in Manitoba as well as the Supreme Court of Canada. He is a member of the Construction Law Subsection of the Bar Association and served on the Executive and as its President in the past.
February 10, 2011
***Student Night***
European Technologies and their Application in North America, ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer Tim McGinn
Tim McGinn’s combined mechanical and electrical degrees, and his LEED® accreditation, put him in a unique position. He has extensive experience in designing mechanical and electrical systems for complex projects but his real passion is a specialization in designing low impact/low energy mechanical and electrical systems for green buildings. As a result, Tim is a frequent lecturer on Green Buildings throughout North America, sharing is broad green building design expertise which includes passive evaporative cooling, indirect evaporative cooling, displacement and underfloor air system, natural and mixed mode ventilation, solar chimneys, solar air preheating, grey water reuse and passive solar heating.
Mr. McGinn is a LEED Accredited Professional and graduated with Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Degrees from University of Saskatchewan with twenty five years experience as a consulting engineer. Tim is based in Calgary and is currently a High Performance Building Design Professional and a principal in the 300 person AE firm DIALOG with offices in Calgary, Edmonton and Toronto. He is a Past President of the Manitoba Chapter of ASHRAE.
By way of select case study of Low Carbon/Low Energy from Europe, technologies, approaches and mechanical systems are reviewed and discussed and related to the North American context. The talk uses a Frankfurt commercial speculative office building to highlight an integrated building services strategy that uses simple, cost effective low energy strategies to deliver excellent indoor environmental quality with low operating costs.
March 10, 2011
***Refrigeration Night***
Variable Flow Refrigeration Systems, Dermot McMorrow, Mitsubishi Electric Sales Canada
Dermot McMorrow, P.Eng. (Ontario), C.Eng (UK) is a Development Engineer in VRF and ERV Technologies at Mitsubishi Electric Sales Canada. He has a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) Building Services Engineering - Universiyt of Ulster N.Ireland and an MSc in Building Services Engineering Management - Brunel University, UK.
He is a Delegate to ASHRAE TG-8 Variable Refrigerant Flow Technology. Dermot has 15 years Professional experience in building services engineering including work in HVAC system design. HVAC product application and development, project and program management and engineering education and training. Specific areas of interest and research include performance simulation and validation of variable speed cooling systems, static energy recovery ventilation, displacement ventilation and its application in green buildings in northern climates, combined heat and power (CHP), geothermal heating and cooling system design for commercial buildings and solar photovoltaic technology.
April 14, 2011
What Better Building Envelopes Mean for HVAC System Designers, Mr. Kevin Knight, Architectural Testing Canada
Comprehensive building envelope testing ensures that owners get functional, durable and airtight building envelopes. This reality changes the demands on the building's mechanical systems to overcome gross building envelope inadequacies. This presentation will discuss functional performance testing, from pre-construction laboratory materials and assembly testing, to mockup testing, through to quality control and quality assurance onsite field testing, and how improved building envelopes reduce uncontrolled air and moisture movement through the building envelope, and thus loads that must be met by the mechanical systems.
Kevin Knight is a building envelope authority with 25 years experience in the field, as a researcher, and as a trainer. Kevin is Technical Director - Architectural Commissioning (ARCx) for Architectural Testing Canada and its parent company Architectural Testing Inc. that provides industry leading building envelope commissioning, inspection, testing, and design for the construction industry. He has collaborated with federal and provincial governments, utilities, and private sector companies on numerous projects. Kevin is the co-inventor of patented testing equipment used for finding leaks in air/vapour barrier and roofing membranes. He has had numerous papers published, and is a frequent lecturer on building envelope science. He currently sits on the ASTM E06 subcommittee, ULC Standards Committee for Air Barriers, and CSA Z320_Building Commissioning Architectural Subcommittee, is a member of the Society of Protective Coatings (SSPC) and Manitoba Building Envelope Council (MBEC), and is a founding member of the Air Barrier Association of America (ABAA).