For our November 8^th Technical Sessions, CTTC has lined-up the following DL presentations from Dr. Thomas Lawrence:

Technical Seminars will be from 2-5 PM, free w/o PDH certificate. If you would prefer to have the PDH hours remember the fee will go towards our Chapter RP contribution for the year.

Technical Sessions 2 pm – 5pm:

CO2 Monitoring for Outdoor Airflow and Demand-Controlled Ventilation

GBCI Approved | 1 CE Hour | 0920020152

AIA Approved | 1 LU | CO2DCV19

A number of programs and standards that exist for buildings today specify the use of outdoor air monitoring.  Monitoring is to be done either based on CO2 levels in the occupied space or actual measurement of outdoor airflow, depending on the space design occupancy and ventilation type (mechanical or natural).  Current standards or program descriptions do not provide detailed guidance for determining what level of CO2 should be considered the maximum concentration to expect, and those that do provide guidance are generally based on a single value above the ambient concentration.  This session describes how to determine a level for CO2 concentrations for an outdoor airflow monitoring program or as part of the upper control limit for a demand-controlled ventilation system.

Thermal Comfort as Related to Energy Consumption: What is the Balance?

GBCI Approved | 1 CE Hour | 0920014298

AIA Approved | 1 LU/HSW | LAWRENCE05

Maintaining thermal comfort within an occupied building requires energy, thus optimized solution methods for balancing energy use with indoor environmental quality (adequate thermal comfort, lighting, etc.) are needed. Current building temperature control systems do not adequately take in account the adaptive capability of the occupants, but this concept can be used advantageously during implementation of demand response.

Demand response programs commonly include temporary adjustments to space temperature set points and thus can affect the occupants’ thermal comfort perceptions. How to balance out the overall energy consumption and peak demand for cooling or heating within buildings with the need for maintaining adequate thermal comfort in the built environment is an issue important to system designers, building operators and society as a whole.

This session provides an overview of the historical development of thermal comfort perception, the two primary approaches used to predict and evaluate thermal comfort, and how these are incorporated in ASHRAE Standard 55. Also covered is a discussion of how thermal comfort considerations can be factored into demand response measures, addressing the conflicting balance between energy consumption and thermal comfort, and a vision on how to possibly achieve an overall optimized balance.

High Performance Building Design – What the Future holds for the Direction for our Industry

GBCI Approved | 1 CE Hour | 920017335

AIA Approved | 1LU/HSW | Lawrence03

During the past two decades we have seen the growth and maturation of the green or high-performance building design concept.  The U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED program was one of the main pioneers in this and ASHRAE’s Standard 189.1 helped evolve this concept into mandatory building codes.d This session provides an overview of how building systems have evolved to meet the demands for green building design and where we are headed in the future in this arena.  Also covered are topics such as the evolution of building codes to include green or sustainability features, how a building designer can include these concepts in their designs, the impact of new technologies such as a smart grid and BIM on the design, and discussion on how this will impact the industry.