November 2012

Pile of Bones Published by the Regina Chapter of ASHRAE

President’s Message By Carla Spriggs Meeting Notice

Wednesday, November 14th, 2012 Please join us this month beginning at Four Season’s Restaurant for the tour of Arcola Arcola Community School

Community School. Alana has arranged for Adeel Building Tour

Choudhry to give us a brief tech session on the

controls of the school as he works for Reliable 4Seasons Restaurant Controls, the controls contractor for the school we 909 Arcola Ave. E, Regina Sk will be touring. After supper, Greg Fluter from MacPherson Engineering will give us a brief design overview before he leads us on a tour of 5:15 – Cocktails the school. 5:45 – Tech Talk 6:00 – Supper Kris has issued the chapter invoices for this year 6:30 – ASHRAE Chapter Meeting so if you have not received one please contact him and Presentation at [email protected] or myself at 7:00- School Tour [email protected] and we will have one promptly issued for you. Upcoming Events Jared Larsen our student activities chair has

organized an after school program with

elementary children to take place in January and December 2012:

February. Jared has chosen an inner city school to Christmas Social

focus on this year as they have a group of interested students. Jared would like to find some

corporate sponsors for these events so he is able to supply supper and some classroom supplies for them. Someone on the board will be contacting you to ask if you would like to sponsor one of In this Issue...... these events. Jared has done a preliminary session and it went really well and the kids were very enthusiastic. President’s Message...... 1 Meetings & Events...... 3 Jared is also hosting a laser tag event with Committee Chair Reports...... 4 University Engineering students and YEA New in Ashrae...... 6 members. This will create a good opportunity for Board of Governors...... 7 our members to interact with the future Engineers Regional & Society...... 8 in our community. Please see Facebook for time, location and costs.

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President’s Message Continued

For December Wayne Tkach has organized

our Christmas social for December the 12th

for supper at Beer Brothers and The Wizard of Oz at the Globe Theater. I look forward to having a little bit of season cheer with you all.

Please join us for the Arcola Community th School Tour on November the 14 .

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2012-2013 Meetings and Events

November 14, 2012 Arcola Community School Building Tour

November 20, 2012 Member and University Laser Tag

December 12, 2012: Christmas Social Beer Bros. & Globe Theatre – Wizard of Oz

January 9, 2013 Speaker: Mike Viale AHRI 1230: Variable Refrigerant Volume Systems

January 26-30, 2013 ASHRAE Winter Conference & AHR Expo in Dallas, TX

February 13, 2013 Speaker: To be confirmed

March 27, 2013 ASHRAE Regina 50th Anniversary Celebration @ Regina Royal Golf Course

April 10, 2013 Student Night

April 18, 2013 ASHRAE Webcast : Assessing Building Energy Performance @ 1:00-4:00 pm EDT

May 2-4, 2013 Region XI CRC in Vancouver, B.C.

May 15, 2013 Speaker: TBD Airflow Management Best Practices for Data Centres

June 2013 ASHRAE Research Golf Tournament

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Committee Chair Reports

Programs year. We only raised $222,612 in Canada, so by Alana Yip ASHRAE is spending two dollars in Canada for every dollar we put in! There are many projects Thank you to those who came out last month to available for research opportunities on the hear ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer, Sheila ASHRAE website. Please encourage the Hayter, present to us on Integrating Renewable University or another research institute to look at Energy into Buildings. It was very informative them and consider bidding on them. and she gave us some good options to consider.

So, please join us on Wednesday, November 14th This month we have our building tour of Arcola at the 4 Seasons, for this years building tour. Community School. We are meeting at the 4 Please remember RSVPs are needed for Seasons, 909 Arcola Ave. E., (corner of Arcola numbers by Thursday, Nov 8th. Please do so by and Park St.) for dinner and a brief presentation acknowledging the calendar invite that was sent about the mechanical systems at the school. out. Greg Fluter, P.Eng, did the mechanical design and will be presenting to us. As well, Adeel Student Activities Choudhry, with Reliable Heating and Cooling by Jared Larson Ltd. will be providing a tech talk on the Building Management System at Arcola School. This There are several exciting opportunities which school has been designed to meet LEED Silver have come up in the last month and in the future Certification standards and the National Energy months. It has been great since each time we are Model, has a green roof with a weather station, a at an event or interacting with the public it raises vegetable and herb garden for students and a a little more awareness of who ASHRAE is in layout that maximizes natural light. the community. The following is a list of some important events. I really need help from Next month, we have our Christmas party on members to step up and help me in these roles. th December 12 at Beer Brothers and the Globe They are not a lot of time commitment, but will Theatre. Thanks Wayne Tkach for planning that help achieve many of our chapters goals with as I know many of us are looking forward to it. students: January 9th is our next chapter meeting and we th will be having a presentation on AHRI 1230 : 1. Nov. 17 (Saturday) - RECC - U of R Performance Rating of Variable Refrigerant students need 3 industry judges. Carla and I told them ASHRAE will provide Flow (VRF) Multi-Split Air-Conditioning and this. We need members for this ASAP. This is the pre-qualifier for the national Heat Pump Equipment. Please mark your WECC competition in January. calendars. And if you have any comments on th 2. Nov 20 ( Tuesday night) I have set up a this years programming, please email me. laser tag / beer / pizza night. We will pair up students with industry members As well, I am to pass on some great research to help make connections, and feel information. ASHRAE spent approximately more welcome within our group. This $450,000 on research projects in Canada last also helps companies looking for future

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Committee Chair Reports Continued

employees as well. From the interest from student who were standpoint of our chapter, I want interested in helping. We will also need everyone to think of this as more than a firms to sponsor pizza & supplies social event. We absolutely need ten (approx. $200 each event). members from ASHRAE to make this MacPherson Engineering will be successful. It is our chance to really sponsoring the first event. I will give help build relations. recognition to any sponsors by 3. 4th year projects – I have submitted newsletters to parents and via social several 4th year design projects to the media. I am using this a pilot project Students, of which 3 were chosen with the intent that we can make it (radiant floor analysis, Heat recovery bigger and expand into other venues. defrost control, and air intake / Hoar This is a great way to give back into our frost evaluation). I have been in contact community and raise awareness. As an with all these groups and they will need example, I made a facebook page for to study field installations. Let me this as well, and the first 5 people who know if you have any of these systems followed the page were not even in the with DDC controls to set up data engineering field. Last month I visited logging, and they may use it for the a class at Arcola school. I included a analysis. photo from this visit. You can see more 4. WESTEM – This is a Student hosted on the page. event similar to our CRC. There will be http://www.facebook.com/pages/Engin a large need for them to raise money to eers-Building- make this event successful. I believe Engineers/420814831319338 that our chapter has great 6. Stefan Lidington (RVC) will be attending opportunities here to sponsor an event, the next meeting, so be sure to buy him or meals. I have invited the Regina a drink. ( he is coming down from Engineering Student Society to the next Saskatoon, so we have to show him that meeting to speak more about this. our chapter is more hospitable). 5. Engineers Building Engineers – I have 7. Facebook Page – Please continue to started up a program for a K-12 target. support the facebook page. It really For 6 weeks ASHRAE will be providing helps those attending to connect faces / an after school program focused on names, and vice versa. I also continue increasing interest in engineering and to post information. Last month it we will be sponsoring a meal. I have received over 120 hits. paired up with an inner city school. I http://www.facebook.com/AshraeRegin Also had a booth set up at the volunteer aSaskatchewanStudentChapter fair on Oct. 24th. I received much

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Past President & Research Promotion by Jason Danyliw

The 2012/13 ASHRAE Research Promotion (RP) campaign is in full swing, and I look Our ASHRAE Board of Governor’s Committee forward to building upon the great success that has reached Full Circle again this year, meaning we had as a Chapter last year. As such, I would that each Board Member has graciously donated like to thank all donors (both company and a minimum of $100.00 to ASHRAE Research. personal) from last year for helping our Chapter So thank you to the Board Members for that raise $13,785.00 for ASHRAE Research. support and leadership. We also have a few donations already being made, so I will work to Thank you to Heric Holmes for all his great continue that trend in the next few months. work to get our Chapter to another extremely successful level, as our Chapter was again one of Below is a list of all the corporate and personal the top ASHRAE Chapters for dollars raised per ASHRAE RP Donors from last year. A huge member. Due to our successes over the last 3-4 THANK YOU to all! years, our Chapter target goal is now $12,500.00. With some hard work and the continued generosity of our Chapter members, I am certain that we can easily obtain that goal. As such, I will be in contact with most of you over the next few months, and I know we can count on all of your support to make this another successful research campaign year.

Gold ($1,000 +) Silver ($500-$1,000) Bronze ($250-$500) Donor ($100-$250) Personal Donors ($100 +)

MacPherson Engineering Inc. Cypress Sales & Partnership All-Rite Plumbing & Heating Ltd. Black & McDonald Mrs. Alana Yip

Saskatchewan HDA Engineering Christie Mechanical Conbrio Consulting Mr. Bob England Insulation Applicators HVAC Sales Ltd. City of Regina Services Inc. Mrs. Carla Spriggs SaskEnergy Selkirk Canada ECCO Supply - Regina DMA Applied Controls Ltd. Mr. Garry Tollefson Uponor E.H. Price Sales Ltd. - Regina Engineered Air - Regina Mr. Greg Fluter Inland Metal Manufacturing Harvard Developments Inc. Mr. Heric Holmes J-Clan Services Ltd. Harvard Property Mrs. Janel Walter R.J. England Consulting Ltd. Management Inc. Mr. Jason Danyliw Trane Saskatchwan KD Mechanical Mr. Jason Paul Norkorp Services Ltd. Mr. Jerry Boulanger Mr. Rob Craddock Mr. Kris Pockett Walter's Industrial Mr. Murdoch MacPherson Mechanical Ltd. Mr. Ray Sieber Mr. Trevor Harle Mr. Trevor Hobman

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What’s New in ASHRAE

Ground Breaking Information for Data Center Energy Efficiency Guidance ATLANTA – Four new data center classes that can enable fulltime economizers for a number of applications in many climates are contained in the latest edition of the principal book in the ASHRAE Datacom Series of publications. The cost of “Thermal Guidelines for Data Processing Environments, Third Edition,” is $54 ($46, ASHRAE members). To order, contact ASHRAE Customer Contact Center at 1-800-527-4723 (United States and Canada) or 404-636-8400 (worldwide), fax 404-321-5478, or visit www.ashrae.org/bookstore.

ASHRAE Brings Technology, People Power in Support of Engineering for Change ATLANTA – ASHRAE has joined forces with an international engineering program to encourage its members to use their knowledge and technology to meet humanitarian challenges across the globe. The initiative is part of Watson’s presidential theme Broadening ASHRAE’s Horizons, which emphasizes the role of ASHRAE members as leaders in the application of sustainable design and practices in our communities worldwide. Under E4C (www.ashrae.org/e4c), ASHRAE members can get involved with existing projects or start new ones.

IAQ 2013 Examines Environmental Health in Low Energy Buildings ATLANTA—ASHRAE announces a call for abstracts for IAQ 2013, Environmental Health in Low-Energy Buildings. The conference will examine IAQ, thermal comfort, source control, air cleaning, ventilation, exposure and related environmental health concerns associated with low energy building design, construction, retrofit and operation. For more information e-mail [email protected] or visit www.ASHRAE.org/IAQ2013.

DOE Appoints ASHRAE Building Energy Codes Fellow ATLANTA - ASHRAE launched its Washington Fellow program in 2007 to allow participants to work in the federal government in a technical advisory role for limited terms. The Society is accepting applications for additional DOE ASHRAE Fellows. For more information on the program, contact Doug Read, ASHRAE director of Government Affairs, at [email protected].

International Cold Climate HVAC Conference Ashrae is hosting and organizing the conference with support from REHVA, a co-sponsor, and SCANVAC, the conference originator. For more information visit www.ashrae.org/coldclimate November 12-14, 2012 Calgary, Alberta

Additional Compliance Path Proposed for ASHRAE/IES Energy Standard Addendum bm to ANSI/ASHRAE/IES (Illuminating Engineering Society) Standard 90.1-2010, Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings, is currently open for public review from Oct. 12 until Nov. 26, 2012. For more information, visit www.ashrae.org/publicreviews.

Mandatory Commissioning for All Buildings Proposed for Green Building Standard Proposed addendum p would remove the “Acceptance Testing” provision (Section 10.3.1.1Building Acceptance Testing) for small buildings. The proposed addendum is open for public review from Oct. 19-Nov. 18, 2012. To comment on the proposed changes or for more information, visit www.ashrae.org/publicreviews.

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12-2013 ASHRAE Regina Board of Governors

President Secretary Carla Spriggs Brad Huber HDA Engineering Ltd. Cypress Sales [email protected] [email protected]

Past President & Research Promotion Student Activities & YEA Chair Jason Danyliw Jared Larson H.V.A.C. Sales Ltd. MacPherson Engineering [email protected] [email protected]

President Elect & Programs Chair Treasurer Alana Yip Kris Pockett Sasktel Kris Pockett Construction alana.yip@sasktel.net [email protected]

Vice President & Newsletter Way & Means Janel Walter Wayne Tkach HDA Engineering Ltd. MacPherson Engineering [email protected] [email protected]

Membership Promotion Historian Greg Fluter Bob England MacPherson Engineering R J England Consulting Ltd. [email protected] [email protected]

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Regional & Society Executive

Regional XI Executive Society Executive

Director & Regional Chair President Kevin Marple, Tom Watson, Benz Air Engineering Co. Inc. Daikin McQuay

Assistant Regional Chair President-Elect Erich Binder, William Bahnfleth, Erich Binder Consulting Ltd. Pennsylvania State University

Membership RVC Treasurer Murdoch MacPherson, Tom Phoenix, MacPherson Engineering Inc. Moser Mayer Phoenix Associates

Research Promotion RVC Vice President Ryan MacGillivray, Constantinos Balaras, Daniels Wingerak Engineering Ltd. National Observatory of Athens

CTTC RVC Vice President Leslie Johsson, Daniel Pettway, CDI Engineers Hobbs and Associates

Student Activities Vice President Stefan Lidington, Thomas Werkema, Oregon Air Reps Arkema Inc.

Regional Treasurer Vice President Rob Craddock, Timothy Wentz, Inland Metal Manufacturing University of Nebraska

Nominating Delegate Secretary Norm Grusnick, Jeff Littleton, Ecco Manufacturing Ashrae

Nominating Alternate Eileen Jensen, Bonneville Power Administration

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