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February Meeting

mtosh — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:40:20 +0000

Please join us on Thursday, February 9th as will be hosting R. Christopher Mathis, as he presents Energy Efficient Window and Fenestration Technologies. R. Christopher Mathis has spent the past 30 years focusing on how buildings and building products perform – from energy efficiency to code compliance to sustainability and long-term performance.

Speaker:	R. Christopher Mathis

Topic:	Energy Efficient Window and Fenestration Technologies

Date:	Thursday, February 9, 2012

Time:	Social begins at 6:00pm

	Presentation begins at 7:00pm

Cost:	$25 with RSVP or PayPal by Feb 6th
	$30 at the door or by PayPal after Feb 6th

Also at our February meeting, we will be showcasing an update from our Student Activities Committee!

See you at the meeting!

January Meeting

admin — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:39:41 +0000

This January, our chapter will be hosting Society Treasurer, William P. Bahnfleth, PhD, PE, as he presents Cool Thermal Energy Storage in the Era of Sustainability. Bill Bahnfleth is Professor and Director of the Indoor Environment Center in the Department of Architectural Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) in University Park, PA, where he has been employed since 1994. He has served ASHRAE in a variety of capacities, including Student Branch Advisor, Chapter Governor, Technical Committee and Standing Committee Chair, and as a Director-at-Large.

Speaker:	William P. Bahnfleth, PhD, PE

Topic:	Cool Thermal Energy Storage in the Era of Sustainability

Date:	Thursday, January 12, 2012

Time:	Social begins at 6:00pm

	Presentation begins at 7:00pm

Cost:	$25 with RSVP or PayPal by Jan 9th
	$30 at the door or by PayPal after Jan 9th

Also at our January meeting, we will be learning about Membership Promotion! This is a great opportunity to learn about the benefits of your ASHRAE membership.

See you at the meeting!!

December Meeting

mtosh — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:39:59 +0000

This December, our chapter will be hosting Dennis Knight, PE, as he presents Building Information Modeling for Mechanical Disciplines. The presentation will focus on the value and uses of BIM for owners, architects, engineers and the community. Mr. Knight will provide a consistent definition of BIM and the information mechanical engineers need to begin adopting BIM as an integrated design tool. If you are working on integrated design projects, or want to be, this presentation is not to be missed!

Speaker:	Dennis Knight, PE, LEED AP

Topic:	Building Information Modeling for Mechanical Disciplines

Date:	Thursday, December 8, 2011

Time:	Social begins at 6:00pm

	Presentation begins at 7:00pm

Cost:	$30 at the door or by PayPal

Also at our December meeting, we will be celebrating our chapter’s history! If you regularly read this newsletter and attend the dinner meetings, you’ve probably been learning some of our chapter history this year already. As this ASHRAE year is the 50^th anniversary of our chapter, our president, John Miller, has dedicated his presidential theme to history! The programs committee will be embracing this theme at our December meeting with a special presentation.

See you at the meeting!!

November Dinner Meeting

admin — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:54:17 +0000

November Technical Dinner Meeting

Topic : Updates to the Guidelines for the Design and Construction of Healthcare Facilities

Panel Discussion including: John Gustin, Michael Sheerin, PE and Greg Braithwaite, AIA
Panel Moderator: Todd Moore

Date: Thursday, November 10, 2011

Time: Social Begins at 6 pm. Technical Presentation at 7 pm

Location: Dubsdread’s Historic Ballroom, 549 W. Par Street, Orlando, FL 32804

Cost: $ 25 using Pay Pal (use link on right task bar) or RSVP below before Monday, November 7.

$ 30 at door or Pay Pal after November 7.

October Programs

mtosh — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:09:56 +0000

Thank you to everyone that came out in September to see Society President, Ron Jarnagin. Ron presented his presidential theme, “Sustaining ASHRAE Through Leadership” and the Central Florida chapter presented awards to our members for their outstanding volunteer efforts. It was a great start to our year and I hope you all enjoyed it!

This month we welcome Kent Hobart from OUC to share with us their Industrial and Commercial Incentive Program. OUC offers financial incentives to businesses that install energy efficient upgrades in their facilities – good news for local facilities owners, contractors and engineers! Many of you may remember meeting Kent last year when he presented a YEA Tech Topic at a chapter dinner meeting; we liked him so much we’re bringing him back again this year.

October is also Student Activities night – my favorite night of the ASHRAE year. Our chapter student activities committee is where I first became an ASHRAE volunteer and it’s still my favorite committee to devote time to. The current committee has a ton of great activities planned for students of all ages and I encourage you to help them out and get involved. Attending the meeting in October is a great way to show support for our students & hear more about what the committee is up to!

See you all at the meeting on the 13^th.

September Program

mtosh — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:14:45 +0000

Welcome back, ASHRAE Central Florida!

After an excellent year with much success, I’m happy to be back & excited to be your Programs Chair. Let’s get this year started off right, shall we?

As I hope you’ve heard, our first meeting of the year is scheduled for Thursday, September 8^th at the usual time and place. Our speaker is Society President Ron Jarnagin presenting his theme for this year, Sustaining ASHRAE Through Leadership. I’ve had the privilege of hearing the presidential messages from ASHRAE Society Presidents for several years in a row now and I can assure you that Ron’s presentation is not your typical presidential message. Ron’s theme is very focused on our membership – but I won’t spoil it for you. Come out and see for yourself!

When you register online for the meeting (www.ashrae-cfl.org) you’ll see PayPal links for ASHRAE Season Tickets on the page too. As always, we are offering all eight meetings this year for the price of seven. You also have the option of paying for the Shrimp Boil with your Season Ticket this year. If you have any questions about the Season Tickets, please don’t hesitate to contact me (mtosh@stanweaver.com). It’s a great way to save on dinner meeting costs for companies that regularly have engineers attending!

Also during our September meeting we’ll be recognizing the achievements of some of our outstanding chapter members. We have Design Competition winners (Go Knights!!), a scholarship recipient, Technology Award winners and some of the Best Chapter Chairs in Region XII right here in Central Florida. There is certainly a lot to celebrate!

I look forward to seeing you all at our September meeting!

50th Anniversary of ASHRAE Central Florida

mtosh — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:14:14 +0000

Welcome to the 2011-2012 ASHRAE Central Florida year! As promised at the May meeting—ASHRAE and football have returned! After doubling the salaries of the locked-out chapter volunteers and board members we have an exciting year in store for all of our members and friends! In addition to having a full-slate of volunteers ready to go for the coming year we are also proud to celebrate a very strong showing by our students at the University of Central Florida where the HVAC System Design team placed third in the ASHRAE Student Design Competition, and the HVAC System Selection Team achieved the “Rising Star” Award for their work on this year’s projects!

This year my presidential theme is “Embracing the past, looking to the future and celebrating the first 50 years of ASHRAE Central Florida”. Before the end of this ASHRAE Year, our chapter will be celebrating its 50^th anniversary in Central Florida and we will be taking time to look back upon each of the first five decades to reminisce on how our chapter became what it is today. In addition, we will look forward toward the next 50 years of our Chapter; developing our vision of where the chapter will be and what impact it will have on our community and industry in the future. Will our impact be in the creation of a new research laboratory at the University of Central Florida through our ASHRAE UCF Initiative? Will our members continue to be the leaders in sustainable design practices and will our chapter play a pivotal role in the development of those professionals? Is there another area in which our influence will be felt? I sincerely believe that our impact will be felt in all of the above, and it is our responsibility as members of the world’s leader in the advancement of the art of HVAC design to continue to use the resources we are provided to serve the Central Florida area, the State of Florida and anywhere else our responsibilities take us.

Please join us this September when we welcome ASHRAE society president Ronald Jarnagin to Central Florida and continue to Embrace the past, look to the future and celebrate the 50^th anniversary of ASHRAE Central Florida. . .

September Technical Meeting

admin — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:57:49 +0000

September Technical Dinner Meeting

Speaker: Ronald Jarnagin, ASHRAE Society President

Topic : Sustaining ASHRAE Through Leadership

Date: Thursday, September 8, 2011

Time: Social Begins at 6 pm. Technical Presentation at 7 pm

Cost: $ 25 using Pay Pal (use link on right task bar) or RSVP below before Monday, September 5.

$ 30 at door or Pay Pal after May 5.

If you want to pay for the entire year take this opportunity to buy an ASHRAE season ticket! Instead of paying $25 for each of our 8 meetings, you can prepay $175 and get all 8 meetings for the price of 7. Additionally this year, we have the option of purchasing all 8 meetings, plus a ticket to our Shrimp Boil in March for $195. Look for all of these options in PayPal on the right task bar below the meeting payment option!

Programs – Presidential Address / May Meeting (5/14)

jalphonso — Sat, 14 May 2011 23:14:09 +0000

We had great attendance at this meeting. Thank you all for coming out. See you all for our new program year beginning September 2011.

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Central Florida ASHRAE, It has been an honor having the opportunity to serve as your President-Elect and Programs chair for the 2010-2011 ASHRAE year, and it is with great pleasure I would like to present to you the final program of the year. This month we welcome the current ASHRAE Society President, Lynn Bellenger, P.E. to central Florida were she will take the time to present us her presidential message “Modeling a Sustainable World”. Lynn has traveled around the world over the past year promoting her theme and ASHRAE’s mission to eager listeners, and now it is time for Central Florida to have the opportunity to hear it directly from ASHRAE’s first woman president. Please join us as we celebrate the end of another successful year in Central Florida with one of our most influential speakers!

Thank you for allowing me to serve you by developing the past year’s programs schedule, and I look forward to seeing everyone again this September as our new President-Elect and Programs Chair, Megan Tosh, develops another series of programs for all of us to enjoy in the coming year!

- John Miller, President Elect & Programs Chair, 2010-2011

Programs – Bringing you the best technical speakers !(2/10)

jalphonso — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:49:34 +0000

Thank you to all sixty members and friends who joined us last month to hear from Mr. Julian deBullet in one of our best received presentations of this year’s ASHRAE Calendar. To all of our members who did not have a chance to attend, you missed a great presentation where Mr. deBullet dove into intricacies of energy modeling and analysis, and how changes in the model can affect both the initial capital investment versus system life-cycle paybacks.

Looking on to this month’s program, it is time to fasten your seatbelts for one of this year’s most dynamic speakers! This month we welcome Mr. Raymond Patenaude for a presentation that you will not want to miss as he compresses his 34 years of experience into a one-hour program about building envelope design in hot and humid environments. Mr. Patenaude is a highly respected engineer in the forensic engineering field who will provide an invaluable insight beyond what most design engineers will take into consideration. Don’t miss this month’s program and risk missing information that could help protect you and your design team from common mistakes made when designing in our climate zone!

In addition to Mr. Patenaude we would also like to welcome Mr. Brandon Vogt to our chapter who will be speaking on his experiences at Limbach Engineering and Design services in our ongoing YEA Tech Topic series. Mr. Vogt will take the time review the requirements of an effective LEED model and a project where 26% energy savings were realized on a 750,000 government building. All of ASHRAE Central Florida’s YEA members are encouraged to attend!

Thank you Central Florida for your continued support of this year’s programs!

- By, John Miller, President-Elect & Programs Chair, 2011-2011