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Alamo ASHRAE, How important is Indoor Air Quality? Considering Americans, on average spend approximately 90 percent of their time indoors, I would say very important. More importantly, the young spend more time indoors than adults and are more sensitive to their environment. Adequate outdoor air ventilation can improve their ability to per-form, raise test scores and reduce airborne transmission of infection. Learn more at this month’s lunch meeting on Indoor Air Quality in Schools this Tuesday, September 17 at Oak Hills Country Club. I want to thank all of those who attended the Kick-Off Party at Main Event. Recognition goes to our membership promotion chair, Dan Torres. For a second year in a row he has ran a smooth and fun Kick-Off Party. By the way…don’t force Dan to come knocking on your door; a friendly remind-er to verify your membership is up to date. The 2nd Annual Oktoberfest Skeet Shoot is shaping up to be quite an event! Over 65 shooters have already signed up shattering last year’s total attendance. Limited spots remain. Be sure to sign up before they run out! Interested in sponsorship opportunities? This is a great event to be a part of while giving back. Please contact Dan Seltzer at [email protected].

Upcoming events:

Indoor Air Quality in Schools, Lunch Meeting, September 17 YEA Lunch and Learn, Chilled Water Distribution, September 24, Marriot Rivercenter Annual Clay Shoot Oktoberfest, October 11

I look forward to seeing you at future Alamo ASHRAE events. Learn, lead, and have fun! Sincerely,

Rey Gutierrez 2013-2014 Alamo ASHRAE President

ALAMO ASHRAE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

ISSUE: SEPTEMBER 2013 / VOLUME LIII NO. 8 ASHRAE - ALAMO CHAPTER #65

THE SQUIRREL CAGE —ALAMO ASHRAE

INSIDE THIS ISSUE :

PRESIDENT ’S MESSAGE 1

ASHRAE MEETING ANNOUNCEMENTS 2

CORNER OF HISTORY 6

OFFICER ’S DIRECTORY / ATTENDANCE 7

BOG MEETING MINUTES 8

TREASURY REPORT 11

ASHRAE PRESS RELEASES 12

SAN ANTONIO, TX

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ALAMO ASHRAE MEETING NOTICE Alamo ASHRAE Monthly Meeting Announcement

Topic: The Need for Better Ventilation Practices in Schools Date/ Time: September 17, 2013 / 11:30 am to 1:00 pm Location: Oak Hills Country Club Speaker: Gerald Lamping Meeting Sponsor: HTS Presentation Summary:

Recent research has demonstrated the relationship between outside air injection or ventilation in classrooms on the performance and health of the students in the classrooms. Mark Mendell and others at Berkley labs have shown that for every additional 1 liter/second per per-son of ventilation provided to a classroom, illness absence declined by 1.6 percent. Also, R. J. Shaughnessy, PhD, of The University of Tulsa, Indoor Air Program, has shown that for every unit (1 l/s per person) increase in the ventilation rate within that range, the proportion of stu-dents passing standardized test is expected to increase by 2.9% for math and 2.7% for reading. These findings and additional studies by others have called for additional injection of outside air into classrooms however these same studies report that the majority of classrooms are under ventilated and below the values called for in state and national ventilation standards. Major reasons presented for these conditions are the high-energy costs associated with air conditioning the outside air and the high contaminant levels already present or potentially in the outside air that is available for use in the ventilation system. High contaminant levels are being recorded near major traffic roadways and one third of the na-tion’s schools are estimated to be located adjacent to major traffic highways. Several case studies of different ventilation practices in actual classrooms will be discussed along with the effects of these practices on student health and performance. One under ventilated school had a 16 percent lower test performance outcome than a similar school with adequate ventilation. Also, alternative ventilation practices that apply the IAQ Procedure of the ASHRAE 62.1 Standard on Acceptable Ventilation will be presented to show how to lower energy costs and indoor air contamination levels with lower ventilation rates.

About the speaker:

JERRY (GERALD A.) LAMPING, Mechanical Engineer,

North East Independent School District, Director for IAQ (Retired), Current Status: Green Classroom Professional - USGBC, Author, Presenter: School Building Environmental Health and IAQ Management, at State, National Conferences, Webinars, and

Articles, for Involved in: (CEFPI), (ASBO), (AASA), (ASHRAE), (CHPS), (USGBC), (EPA), (EPA Region 6), (SBA)

Private Consultant, providing educational and other resources concerning indoor air quality and healthy environments in classrooms. *Take Care of Your Classroom Air, Boerne, TX *Works with school districts and school related educational organizations

*The Children’s Environment Health Institute. *Secretary/Treasurer, South Texas Asthma Coalition, San Antonio,

affiliated with the San Antonio American Lung Association. *Vice Chair Green Schools Committee, Central Texas-Balcones Chapter of the USGBC.

*Member of the Healthy Schools Network *Boerne ISD School Health Advisory Committee.




ALAMO ASHRAE MEETING NOTICE:

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT!

In addition to our speaker Jerry Lamping discussing “The need for better ventilation practices in schools,” we will have an appearance from some local research students. They will give us a brief presentation on their findings regarding condensate research and what it could mean to the future of the HVAC industry.




UPCOMING EVENTS:

2ND ANNUAL CLAY SHOOT

Contact Daniel Seltzer for more information. [email protected]





UPCOMING EVENTS:

YEA LUNCH AND LEARN




DID YOU KNOW?

BY: RAJ KAPOOR The City of San Antonio City Council approved the adoption of the Sustainable Building Ordinance as well as the International Energy Conservation Code.

The ordinance requires that a “Stakeholder Committee” convene not less than every three years to review the progress of energy code adoption and to offer recommendations on how to achieve the goal of Net-Zero Carbon Construction by 2030. It was started under the leadership of then San Antonio Mayor Phil Hardberger when he signed the ordinance.

A Stakeholder Sustainable Building Committee (SSBC) was formed and convened in December 2012.

SSBC was asked to consider codes for residential and commercial buildings in San Antonio and look at where the State of Texas was with energy codes. In the past, under leadership of Dubb Taylor at SECO, Texas adopted ASHRAE 90.1 2007 and is now considering adopting ASHRAE 90.1 2010. If the state adopts the 2010 version of 90.1 then every city can choose to adopt it or not. Or they can recommend City Council to adopt IECC or ASHRAE 90.1 2010.

SSBC is lead by Mary Hammer of City of San Antonio Sustainability office and has following organizations represented on it:

AIA ASHRAE SAHA ( San Antonio Housing Authority) San Antonio Builders Association Practicing Engineer Apartment owners association CPS SAWS BOMA San Antonio and others. Mary has the assistance of in house energy managers and staff who are doing analysis and have taken help from the Texas

State Energy Lab and other consultants. Rajendera (Raj) K. Kapoor P.E., CPMP an ASHRAE member has actively par-ticipated in all the SSBC meetings since December 2012. Look forward to his article in coming months about his experi-ence on the committee and how ASHRAE can help Citizens of San Antonio towards achieving the goal of Saving Energy and promoting City Ordinance

Raj Kapoor Sept. 5, 2013



Officers President Rey Gutierrez, 210-269-4287 [email protected]

President-Elect Wes Weissgarber 210-650-9005 [email protected]

Secretary Raj Kapoor, PE 210-379-5849 [email protected] Treasurer Aaron Caldwell 210-516-1784 [email protected]

Board of Governors Chris Garcia, PE 210-567-2919 [email protected] Aaron Caldwell 210-516-1784 [email protected] Rocky Ormand 210-499-0004 [email protected] Todd Buck 210-678-3018 [email protected]

Committee Chairs Attendance Rezaur Rahman 210-342-3483 [email protected]

Honors & Awards Madison Bryer 210-598-7801 [email protected] Chapter Technology Transfer Brad Gilbert

210-426-0887

[email protected]

Historian Manuel Lizcano, PE 210-732-4440 [email protected]

Membership Promotion Dan Torres 361-676-6805 [email protected].

Refrigeration Chair Fred Gleeson 210-496-3100 [email protected] Sustainability Chair Woody Thompson 210-269-4827 [email protected]

Newsletter Editor Baron Phillips 210-516-1704 [email protected]

Research Promotion Daniel Seltzer 210-541-9967 [email protected]

Student Activities Mario Mijangos, PE 210-599-6120 [email protected] Website Editor * Interim * Matt Koch, PE, PhD 830-446-1839 [email protected] YEA—Young Engineers Christopher Delgado PE 210-253-2738 [email protected] Govt Activities Chris Garcia, PE 210-567-2919 [email protected]

OFFICER ’S DIRECTORY—LOCAL CHAPTER

Previous Meeting Attendance:


BOG MEETING ATTENDANCE: President – Rey Gutierrez, Secretary – Raj Kapoor, Treasurer – Aaron Caldwell, Governor –

Chris Garcia, Governor – Todd Buck, Governor – Aaron Caldwell, CTTC – Brad Gilbert, YEA – Chris Delgado, Newsletter

– Baron Phillips, GGAC Chair-Chris Garcia, Government Activities/GGAC Co-Chair – Rey Gutierrez and Chris Delgado




















JULY 2013 BOARD OF GOVERNORS MEETING MINUTES

ALAMO ASHRAE

2013/2014 PLANNING MEETING MINUTES

August 8, 2013 -- 12:00 PM – EZ’s Brick Oven & Grill

Presiding Officer: Rey Gutierrez

CALL TO ORDER

ROLL CALL: President – Rey Gutierrez, Secretary – Raj Kapoor, Treasurer – Aaron Caldwell, Governor – Chris Garcia, Governor – Todd Buck, Governor – Aaron Caldwell, CTTC – Brad Gilbert, YEA – Chris Delgado, Newsletter – Baron Phil-lips, GGAC Chair-Chris Garcia, Government Activities/GGAC Co-Chair –Rey Gutierrez Chris Delgado

OFFICER & CHAIR REPORTS

Treasurer – Aaron Caldwell

Financial Report Account primary needs to be changed from Woody, date? Deposit checks given for Skeet Shoot

CTTC – Brad Gilbert & Thursten Simonsen

Meeting Speakers & Topics (Deadline October 1st, 2013) Distinguished Lecturer Sponsors Condensate Research MBO (Due October 1st, 2012)

Membership Promotion – Dan Torres

Kick-Off Party Report Call Campaign List(Check with Dan) MBO (Due October 1st, 2013) UTSA Taigate

RP – Dan Seltzer

Update on Skeet Shoot Update on Golf Tournament Call List Campaign Full Circle MOB (Due October 1st, 2012)




...Continued from Previous Page

Student Activities – Mario Mijangos

Flyers up @ UTSA Scholarships National Engineers week MBO (Due October 1st, 2013)

YEA – Chris Delgado

Upcoming events Refrigeration Brewery Tour Leadership Conference Application

Refrigeration – Fred Gleeson

Refrigeration Brewery Tour, Speaker?

Historian – Manuel Lizcano

Digital Archives Corner of History Chapter Timeline/Website Articles

Newsletter – Baron Phillips

Task Due Friday Morning, send Newsletter out by EOD 9/12 Copy all RVC’s on monthly newsletter Skeet Shoot flyer, Oct. 11th Other Announcements?

Webmaster – Matt Koch

Replacement Candidates?

Update Front Page

Sustainability – Woody Thompson

Sustainability Topics for Programs – Coordinate with CTTC Present to Gov. Entity

Honors & Awards – Madison Bryer

Identify Candidates




...Continued from Previous Page

Update Communications Committee-

Update Officers? Chairs?

Grassroots Government Activities – Chris Garcia

Updates Chris Delgado, Rey Gutierrez, Wes Weissgarber and Fred Gleeson on Committee Nat. Engineers Week

NEW BUSINESS

Presidential Award of Excellence (PAOE)

Update points (Monthly) Goals for 2013-2014

Manual for Chapter Operations (MCO)

Management by Objectives (MBO) – * Due October 1st, 2013 * Email corresponding chair

ASHRAE Region VIII Officers: http://region8.ashraeregions.org/officers.htm

ADJOURN


http://region8.ashraeregions.org/officers.htm



TREASURER’S FINANCIAL REPORT: SEPTEMBER 2013




ASHRAE PRESS RELEASE—ANNOUNCEMENT

For Release: Aug. 13, 2013 Contact: Amanda Dean Public Relations 678-539-1216 [email protected]

ASHRAE Announces 2013-14 Conference Lineup

ATLANTA—Mark your calendars now because ASHRAE’s conference schedule for 2013-2014 is widespread in both dates and global reach. ASHRAE conferences present the latest developments in the industry and fundamental tried and true practices. Topics range from high performance buildings to buildings that have combustion with low-grade fuels.

Oct. 15-18, ASHRAE IAQ 2013: Environmental Health in Low Energy Buildings, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Jan. 18-22, 2014, ASHRAE Winter Conference; Jan. 20-23, AHR Expo, New York, New York

Feb. 24-26, 2014, First International Conference on Energy and Indoor Environment for Hot Climates, Doha, Qatar April 7-8, 2014, High Performance Buildings Conference, San Francisco, Calif. April 24-25, 2014, Efficient, High Performance Buildings for Developing Economies, Manila, Philippines

June 28-July 2, 2014, ASHRAE Annual Conference, Seattle, Wash. September 10-12, 2014, ASHRAE/IBPSA-USA Building Simulation Conference, Atlanta, Ga.

The conferences feature peer-reviewed papers, presentations with hands-on information presented in a non-commercial format, Professional Devel-opment Hours and networking opportunities.

ASHRAE IAQ 2013 in October 2013 reviews the state of knowledge on the balance between environmental health and energy efficiency in the pur-suit of low energy buildings and covers a range of topics: residential and commercial buildings, new construction and retrofit, active and passive approaches, design and operation.

What better city than New York for ASHRAE to host a Winter Conference in January 2014 with a Technical Program focused on buildings? The Conference has a building-oriented theme with papers and presentations related to building information systems; environmental health; international design; HVAC&R applications and systems; and, of course, tall building performance.

The First International Conference on Energy and Indoor Environment for Hot Climates in February 2014 tackles energy and indoor environmental quality issues in humid and arid hot climates, providing a forum for discussion of the latest research and developments.

Building upon its 2012 High Performance Buildings Conference and 2009 Net Zero Conference, the High Performance Buildings Conference in April 2014 seeks to advance the industry’s efforts to accomplish a true high-performance built environment. The tracks include building performance modeling, envelope strategies, lighting/daylighting strategies, indoor environmental quality strategies, building occupant behavior, market value, new building technologies and case studies and lessons learned.

The design, construction and operation of energy efficient, high performance buildings in developing economies have been identified by the building industry and policymakers as key areas where technology, standards and investments are needed. The Efficient, High Performance Buildings for

Developing Economies Conference in April 2014 will address a number of themes on this topic.

The 2014 ASHRAE Annual Conference takes place in Seattle, Wash., June 2014. The Conference addresses broad topics in the application of technology to practice, specific applications in ground source heat pumps, operations and maintenance and indoor environmental quality as well as

new reports on research taking place worldwide.

Finally, ASHRAE and IBPSA-USA have created a new jointly co-sponsored Building Simulation Conference taking place in September 2014 that encompasses the ASHRAE Energy Modeling and IBPSA-USA SimBuild Conferences. The conference is a first for the industry and focuses on “BIM,

BEM and SIM – Integrated Building Design and Modeling,” addressing building information modeling, building energy modeling and building simula-

tion.

ASHRAE, founded in 1894, is a building technology society with more than 50,000 members worldwide. The Society and its members focus on build-ing systems, energy efficiency, indoor air quality, refrigeration and sustainability. Through research, standards writing, publishing, certification and

continuing education, ASHRAE shapes tomorrow’s built environment today. More information can be found at www.ashrae.org/news.



http://www.ashrae.org/IAQ2013

http://www.ashrae.org/newyork

http://www.ashrae.org/hotclimates

http://www.hpbmagazine.org/hpb2014

http://www.ashrae.org/Developing2014

http://www.ashrae.org/seattle

http://www.ashrae.org/Simulation2014

http://www.ashrae.org/news



ASHRAE PRESS RELEASE—ANNOUNCEMENT

For Release: Aug. 20, 2013 Contact: Jodi Scott Public Relations 678-539-1216 [email protected] High-Performing Buildings: Energy Efficiency and Indoor Air Quality Must Go Hand in Hand ATLANTA – Finding the balance between environmental health and energy efficiency in the pursuit of low energy buildings is examined in a paper at the upcoming ASHRAE IAQ 2013, setting the tone for discussion for the entire conference. “Neglecting indoor air quality while pursuing other goals can result in building environments that negatively impact the health, comfort and productivity of occupants and therefore defeat the overall goal of building design, including reduced costs,” Kevin Teichman, a senior science advisor at the U.S. Environment Protection Agency, said. “While building design is key to achieving a high-performing building, it is critically important to follow these good intentions through construction, commissioning, operation and maintenance. Only in this way will high-performing buildings actually perform as designed.” Teichman’s papers are among 80 conference papers and extended abstracts being presented at IAQ 2013, Environmental Health in Low-Energy Buildings, which takes place Oct. 15-18, 2013, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. This conference is the 17th in the ASHRAE IAQ conference series and is co -organized by ISIAQ. Registration is now open for the conference. To register and for complete conference information, visit www.ASHRAE.org/IAQ2013. An early bird rate expires Aug. 31 but advanced registration is open through Sept. 30, 2013. Teichman’s paper, “Indoor Air Quality in High-Performing Building Case Studies: A Wealth of Intent, A Dearth of Data,” examines the role of indoor air quality in high performing build-ings, focusing on case studies in ASHRAE’s High Performing Buildings magazine. The paper was co-authored by Andrew Persily and conference co-chair Steve Emmerich, mechanical engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. A panel discussion on the topic also is planned. “While progress has been made in achieving sustainable, high-performance buildings, it is noteworthy that many discussions of green, high-performing and certainly net-zero energy buildings tend to focus on energy consumption,” Teichman said. “Energy is critically important, but is only one aspect of performance and should not be pursued to the neglect of the others.” The conference seeks to describe the current state-of-understanding of the relationship of IEQ in high-performance buildings. “There are not a lot of data on IEQ in high performance buildings, but this conference will bring the collective knowledge of the industry together to set a benchmark, if you will, on where we are and how we should move forward,” Hal Levin, conference co-chair, said. “It will be important in identifying critical gaps in our knowledge and potential priorities for future ASHRAE research, standards and guidelines.” The state of knowledge will be summarized in written “topic overviews” to be included in the Conference proceedings publication. These overviews may include comments on papers in the sessions; provide supplemental information; summarize the state of the art; include suggestions for high-priority research, as well as identify areas that are well researched; or include recommendations to ASHRAE about implementation of energy conservation and IEQ design activities, Levin said. The Conference features papers and presentations in nine tracks, which include • Environmental Health in Low-Energy Buildings • Moisture and Health • Sources and Chemistry • Indoor Environmental Quality Factor Interactions • Residential Buildings

• Commercial and Institutional Buildings • Air Cleaning and Filtration • Microorganisms and Infection • Tools (models, measurements and more) Plenary Lectures are given by four distinguished international authorities: • William Bahnfleth, Ph.D., P.E., Fellow ASHRAE, ASME Fellow, Pennsylvania State University, 2013–14 ASHRAE president, “Are We Putting Enough Energy into Making Buildings Healthy?” • Richard Corsi, Ph.D., P.E. University of Texas, Austin, Indoor Air 2011 president, “Building Energy and Reactivity” • Mark J. Mendell, Ph.D., Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and California Department of Public Health, “Do We Know Much about Low Energy Buildings and Health?”



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