CLEVELAND ASHRAE NEWSLETTER September 2012 SEPTEMBER MEETING What Can Cleveland ASHRAE Do For You? September 17, 2012 Speaker: Rob Laneve & Matt Morgan Times: 4:15pm - 5:30pm Board Meeting 5:30pm - 6:15pm Attitude Adjustment Hour! 6:15pm - 7:15pm Dinner 7:15pm - 8:15pm Presentation Location: Harry’s Steakhouse 5664 Brecksville Road Independence, OH 44131 R.S.V.P. via your Constant Contact invitation. Guests are welcome for a $25 meal charge. The beginning of the ASHRAE season is a great time to ask, what do I get for my ASHRAE dues ($265)? This month’s meeting is focused on answering that question. Past President, Rob Laneve, and current president, Matt Morgan will be discussing ASHRAE tools available for Members Only, recent standards updates, design guides available and many other benefits your membership gives you. There will also be the opportunity to voice your opinion on how our chapter operates. We would love to hear the voices of our members. If learning the benefits of ASHRAE weren’t enough to bring you down, how about a free ASHRAE membership? That’s right! We will be raffling off multiple local memberships at this month’s meeting. The only way to win is to show up (not true for the Browns...). So come on down, understand how to get the most bang for your ASHRAE dollar and have a chance to win a free ASHRAE membership! See you then... This Month’s Sponsor If you are interested in sponsoring the newsletter, please contact Jack Malone at 216-391-3700. THE PRESIDENT’S CORNER BY MATT MORGAN OFFICERS & COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN 2012-2013 Officers and Board of Governors President Matt Morgan President Elect Scott Dusenbury Treasurer Doug Barnes Secretary James Dudt Two things seem fairly certain each fall: ASHRAE comes up faster than you think and the Board of Governors Browns find a way to lose their home opener. For our sanity, let’s focus on the prior... Shariq Ali Shawn Beres Committees and Chairs Chapter Technical Transfer Committee Robert Laneve Programs Mike Quinn (CTTC) Refrigeration Richard B. Long (CTTC) Gov’t Activities Doug Barnes (CTTC) Membership & Brendan Hall Roster Product Directory Daniel J. Bacik The Cleveland ASHRAE Chapter had quite a summer. We hosted ASHRAE’s Region V CRC Research Shariq Ali Promotion (Chapter’s Regional Conference). Since the CRC comes to town once every 13 years, the CRC committee wanted to give Region V a lasting impression of Cleveland. I think we far Newsletter Jack Malone exceeded expectations. The committee, led by our own Mr. Brian “McAshrae” McFearin, did a Student Activities Scott K. Jordan tremendous job! I can’t thank Brian and all those involved enough for a job well done. Refer to Matt Nelson Brian’s “CRC Wrap-Up” in the following pages for more details. We got a sneak-peak of next Honors & Awards Fred H. Hollman year’s CRC in Columbus and it appears they plan to host and even bigger and better CRC than ours. That’s a tall order but nothing is impossible.... Historian Dave Deschler Science Fair Steven R. Armstrong With last year’s President Elect, Dominic Cacolici’s move to Florida, my ASHRAE presidency came faster than expected. I haven’t had a year to dwell on what my “theme” for this year will Meeting Host Shariq Ali be, so I’m not sure I have a theme. I do know that we have a great local Chapter and I intend to Scholarship Fund Ken Borah make it even better. With that said, I am looking for your input throughout the year on everything (Sal Triana & Billy Kodosky and anything. Don’t be shy with any ideas you have to improve our programs, membership Gardiner) Shawn Beres Gary Gardiner promotion, research, etc. The ASHRAE Board and I are here for you, our members. Without your support, we could have never become what we are. Golf Outing Louis A. Bentzen Ken Borah Engineer’s James G. MacMillan Week — Matt Morgan Special Events Brian McFearin Budget & IRS Fred H. Hollman Compliance Sunshine Fund James W. Wickert Website James Dudt IN THE NEWS... Region V CRC The chapter, the region, the DRC and I all want to extend a special thanks to all of the CRC sponsors for helping to make this year’s event extra special. Your participation went a long way toward assuring participation by every chapter of Region V. Sincerely, Dennis J. Wessel, PE, FASHRAE Director-at-Large Platinum Sponsors Gold Sponsors Silver Sponsors Green Sponsors Craun Liebing/ Marley Refrigeration Sales R L Deppman Denk Associates McQuay/ Wadsworth Carrier Corporation Jacco (Kodowsky) Integrated Testing J.M. Pier Mastroianni Direct Air Gardiner Trane Victaulic Ketchum & Walton Johnson Controls Karpinski Engineering Energy Controls Fowler Young Regulator (Mike Dolphin) Boiler Specialists S A Comunale Mussun Sales Coleman Spohn MEI ACP + Greenheck+Price Industries ASHRAE RESEARCH PROMOTION The Research Committee would like to recognize Rick Zbin and Ann Stockmaster for agreeing to the 10% challenge in Cleveland! What is this you ask? They have agreed to donate 10% of our chapter’s RP campaign, potentially $2500 for the 5th year in a row. These donors are a rare find, and we hope to make them proud of our accomplishments this year, and by proud I mean, a Major Donor! Thank You Donors! ASHRAE Scholarship Application If you know of someone who is actively attending college to earn a mechanical or architectural engineering degree at a Northeast Ohio University or out of the area but is from the Northeast Ohio area, please point them in a direction of a Sal Triana Scholarship possibility. The intent of this scholarship is to help those engineering students seeking to someday make a career in the HVAC consulting/engineering/sales businesses get through the financial struggles of a higher education. Applications can be found on the Cleveland ASHRAE Website and e-mailed to [email protected]. If you have any questions please feel free to contact Ken Borah at 216-391-3700. SUNSHINE COMMITTEE kron ASHRAE member Donald D. Church passed away suddenly on Monday, June 11, 2012, at age 57, in the arms of his wife and surrounded by family and friends. Don had been with Karl R. Rohrer Associates for the past 30 years, and many Cleveland Chapter members knew him through his work and ASHRAE. His dry sense of humor, simple manner, good fellowship, and contributions to our industry will be missed greatly by all those who enjoyed working with him. Don graduated from the University of Akron, and was a registered Professional Engineer. He is survived by his wife Bonnie, two sons, two granddaughters, three sisters and many others in his family. Services were held at Schermesser Funeral Home on Friday, June 15, 2012, and he was buried in East Liberty Cemetery. We also note the passing of structural engineer Nathan N. Hoffman at age 96 on May 4, 2012. Nate led the Barber & Hoffman firm for a number of years. Those of us who had the privilege of working with him remember both his modest, soft-spoken manner and his great skill and resourcefulness. He had graduated from the former Fenn College before World War II, and then led a Seabee battalion, designing floating docks for the Normandy invasion and building bases in the South Pacific, rising to be a Lieutenant Commander. He worked on the design of many prominent Cleveland buildings including the Federal Building and the Erieview Tower. He outlived two wives, but is survived by two children, five grandchildren and four great grandchildren. We note the passing of a figure from the early stages of one of the larger firms in our industry. Rosemary Cook died at age 94 on June 28, 2012, in Delray Beach, Florida. She was a co-founder with husband Loren Cook, about 70 years ago, of a small local company noted for making the first all-aluminum roof exhauster, when spun-aluminum housings were considered a radical experiment, and served as Corporate Secretary. Interestingly, she had started her career at the equipment supply catalog-warehouse WW Grainger in Chicago, where she met Loren. Services were held in Boca Raton, Florida, at the Congregational Church of Boca Raton. She & Loren are survived by son-in-law Will Nopper, four children, seven grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Carol A. Doskocil, our Chapter Accountant for 35 years, died July 22, 2012 at age 77. She was Chief Financial Officer of the Construction Employers Association for 31 years. When the Internal Revenue Service had questions in 1975 about our Chapter non-profit tax-exempt status, and we were uncertain how to respond, Ms. Doskocil came to our rescue, and continued, behind the scenes, to prepare the required IRS forms for us each year thereafter. She spoke on IRS Compliance for ASHRAE Chapters at an Akron CRC. Ms Doskocil also served as Cleveland Chapter President of the National Association of Women in Construction, and some 15 NAWIC members gathered after her funeral to each speak of her friendship and the value of her contributions to the industry and the community. Her Memorial Mass was Saturday, July 28 at Holy Family Parish in Parma, and she was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery. She is survived by a brother, two sisters, and many nieces and nephews. Fred Hollman continues after all these years as our Chapter liaison for IRS Compliance, but we will miss Carol in ways most of us were never aware of. Robert O. Sords, who many in our industry relied on for advice and supply of electric heating equipment, died recently. Bob was in his eighties, and had been retired for some time.