Costs:

Members: $25

Non-members: $35

Consulting Engineers Express Members: Free

Regular Express Members: Free

Format:
11:00-11:20 a.m. – Networking and Sign In and Start Lunch Line
11:20-11:30 a.m. – Start Lunch
11:30 a.m. – Start Meeting
11:30 a.m. – 11:55 a.m. – Roll Call, Prayer, Pledge of Allegiance, Message from
President, Officers Reports, General Announcements
12:00 p.m. – 12:50 p.m. – Program/Presentation
12:50- 1:00 p.m. – Q&A
1:00 p.m. – conclude

Hello everyone.  Our presenter last month was great.  You really missed out if you didn’t make it.  Be sure to mark your calendars for our November meeting.  We have a great speaker again.  He is an ASHRAE Fellow and a Distinguished Lecturer.  He is a very down to earth person so his presentations are always very informative and well as entertaining.  Be sure to invite a guest and a colleague to join you.  I will look forward to seeing all of you there.

Mike Langton

You Can’t Afford Discomfort

While much has been said about saving energy, little is said of the downside if the savings strategy reduces occupant productivity. The average salary in any office is 100 times greater than the full cost of heating and cooling that space. Strategies that add to the first, renovation, or operating cost of a space have to be weighed against the potential for reduced productivity when calculating the time to payback.

We aren’t doing a very good job, it seems. BOMA continues to report that the #1 reason for tenants not renewing the lease is “occupant dissatisfaction with the thermal environment”. ASHRAE Standard 55 describes the conditions that will satisfy a majority of the occupants. It is often referenced in code, and many LEED projects have been awarded a point for compliance, at the design stage, of course. 

In practice however, we find that systems don’t operate at design, or even as designed. We will discuss the issues related to maintaining comfortable conditions.at all loads, and discuss the benefits of ventilation and economizer operations. 

DAN INT-HOUT III
Chief Engineer
Krueger
Richardson, Tx. 

Biography

Dan is responsible for the presentation of technical data and advanced application engineering for the Grilles, Registers and Diffusers, as well as the VAV air terminals, fan coils and chilled beams produced by Krueger.

Dan has been in the Air Distribution research and design business since 1973, and has a Masters in Business Management from Central Michigan Univ., and a Bachelor in Biology & Physics from Denison University.
Dan has held several positions in the industry, including Owens Corning Fiberglas, Carrier, Titus Environmental Technologies and Krueger, in engineering, marketing and product research roles.

Dan has written a number of technical papers and articles on VAV system performance, acoustics, air diffusion, controls and occupant comfort. He was recently Chairman of both ASHRAE Technical and Standards Committees on Thermal Comfort, is a past Chairman of several other related ASHRAE Technical and Standards Committees, as well as ASHRAE Standards, Technical Activities Committee (TAC) & Environmental Health Committees. Dan joined the ASHRAE Technical Activities Committee again in June 2012. He received the ASHRAE Distinguished Service Award in 1993 and the Exceptional Service award in 2007 

Dan is currently the Chairman of the AHRI committee on Applied Acoustics (885) and a past member of ISO 205 US Panel on Thermal Comfort.  Dan is also a past member of the USGBC TAG on the Indoor Environment. 

Dan was elevated to the grade of ASHRAE Fellow at the Long Beach meeting in 2007, and the ASHRAE Board of Directors in 2014.