ASHRAE Names 15 New Distinguished Lecturers
ATLANTA - ASHRAE has named 15 new Distinguished Lecturers who provide ASHRAE chapters with noted authorities who speak on relevant topics that impact the HVAC&R industry.
This marks the 12th year of the Distinguished Lecturer Program. The new lecturers and their areas of expertise are:
Roberto Aguilo, Estuido Ing. Aguilo and Asso., Buenos Aires, Argentina - The Refrigeration Process in the Food Industry; Supermarket Refrigeration Systems and Sustainability; and Refrigerant Flow Control Methods in Industrial Refrigeration.
Robert Baker, RGB Group, Ruskin, Fla. - Green Maintenance Needed to Keep HVAC Systems Green; Standard 180: A New Approach to HVAC System Maintenance; and Excellence in HVAC System Hygiene: a Wise Investment.
Dru Crawley, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, D.C. - Advanced Energy Design Guides; Are High Performance Buildings Really Performing?; Future Trends in Buildings and Energy Simulation; Energy Plus, DOE's New Generation Building Energy Simulation Program; and Impacts of Climate Change and Urbanization on Future Building Performance.
Gordon Holness, P.E., consulting engineer, Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich. - Energy Conservation in Existing Buildings; Standard 100-2006, Energy Conservation in Existing Commercial Buildings; ASHRAE and Building Information Modeling: Where Are We at and Where Are We Going?; and Business Management and Operational Metrics for Engineers.
K.S. Kannan, Ph.D., P.Eng., Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur - Code of Practice for Energy Efficiency in Commercial Buildings; Design Features of Energy Efficient Building Construction in Malaysia; and Malaysia Industrial Energy Efficiency Improvement Project: Experiences and Lessons Learned.
Marlene Linders, Philders Group International, Heathrow, Fla. - Infection Control Risk Assessment 101: Understanding the Basics of Liability and Risk During Health Care Construction; and Preparing for the Unthinkable: Seven Components in Preparing for Business Continuity in the Advent of a Pandemic.
Merle McBride, Ph.D., P.E., Owens Corning, Granville, Ohio - Advanced Energy Design Guides.
Tim McGinn, P.Eng., Cohos Evamy, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - A Green Building Primer; Low-Impact Mechanical Systems; Setting Fees for Profitable Green Building Projects; Participating in the Integrated Design Process; and European Technologies and Their Application in North America.
Dan Nall, FAIA, P.E., Flack + Kurtz, New York, N.Y. - Advanced Energy Design Guides; Thermally Active Floors for Space Conditioning; and Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis for Building Comfort Systems Design.
Vincent Sakraida, P.E., Merrick and Co., Denver, Colo. - Cleanroom Design in 10 Easy Steps; Designing Bio-Containment HVAC Sequence of Operations to Fail; and Mechanical Systems Commissioning Fundamentals.
S.A. Sherif, Ph.D., University of Florida, Gainesville - Ice Fog and Psychrometrics: the Missing Link in Industrial Freezer Design.
Kecha Thirakomen, EEC Academy, Bangkok, Thailand - Stabilizing Chilled Water Distribution; Why the Building has to be Airtight; and Case Study: the New Government Center Project, Bangkok.
Silvio Toro, Refrigeraton Engineering Co., Bogota D.C., Colombia - Construction Characteristics of Refrigerated Spaces; Mid- and Low-Temperature Equipment; Biochemical Refrigerants; Cooling and Freezing Periods of Agricultural Products; Fruit and Vegetable Cold Chain; Ammonia Recirculation Systems, Refrigeration Cycles P-H Diagram; and Energy Saving in Commercial Parallel Refrigeration Systems with LPA Liquid Amplification.
Terry Townsend, P.E., Townsend Engineering, Chattanooga, Tenn. - ASHRAE: Leading the World to an Independent and Sustainable Future; Sustainable Applications That Work; Advanced Energy Conservation and IEQ Design Guidance and Applications; and Building Performance: Tools, Metrics and Protocols for Global Applications.
Gildardo Yanez, Refrigerantes Tlalnepantla SA de CV, Mexico City, Mexico - Ozone Depletion and Global Warming.
The new lecturers will serve a two-year term beginning in July. There are 61 Distinguished Lecturers for 2008-09.
Please visit www.ashrae.org/DistinguishedLecturers for a complete listing of lecturers and detailed procedures to arrange a lecturer visit. For additional information, contact Rosy Douglas, manager of chapter programs, at rdouglas@ashrae.org or 404-636-8400.
ASHRAE, founded in 1894, is an international organization of some 50,000 persons. ASHRAE fulfills its mission of advancing heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration to serve humanity and promote a sustainable world through research, standards writing, publishing and continuing education.
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