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T hanks to everyone who has contributed to making this year

BETTER! I am winding down my term as president and want to

thank all of the grass roots volunteers that have helped out. It

has truly been an honor and pleasure serving you this year as president.

Some highlights from this year include hitting our chapter record

meeting attendance of 91 people (controls panel discussion), adding the

Top Golf event, restarting ASHRAE University, having ASHRAE

President David Underwood visit us for our Chapter’s 60th Anniversary,

and many others.

We recently completed the Annual ASHRAE Bowling Tournament at the Westgate Lanes. We

had (11) five man teams competing and EEA Consulting Engineers took first place. Congrats!

We netted $1,200+ for ASHRAE RP. Huge shout out to Mark Mikulin for organizing the event.

I would like to give a huge thank you to Jeremy Smith and Morgan Stinson for making ASHRAE

Austin BETTER! They invested a lot of personal time into our second semester of ASHRAE

University to teach engineers and contractors the Fundamentals of Airside Design. The event

was a success with 35+ students for the four week course. We intend on hosting another session

for the fall semester and hope to make this a continual program for years to come.

We are coming back to the County Line to wrap up our great line of programs this year. Please join

us for BBQ & Beer at our May 19th Chapter Dinner Meeting at The County Line on the Hill. This

next meeting topic is on Natatorium HVAC design and will discuss specific design issues including

dew point, evaporation rate, energy consideration, condensation control, moisture migration

control, design responsibility, IAQ, air distribution, duct design, and heat recovery.

I am excited to announce that I will be moving on to a Regional Position (Refrigeration Chair), but

I will still be active at the chapter level as RP Chair for next year. I believe that we have set some

great ground work in future planning for the chapter chairs and I confident that next year will be

even BETTER! Please help support our local Austin ASHRAE Chapter by volunteering for next year.

David Bacorn can be reached at (512) 744-4412 or [email protected]

FROM THE PRESIDENT’S DESK

ASHRAE MAY MEETING

P lease join us for a dinner meeting at the County Line on the Hill on May 19.

Natatoriums have their unique challenges which the HVAC professional must understand fully, so they can design a proper system to combat these challenges. In this

presentation, Mr. Eric Johnson with Seresco Technologies will discuss design issues which will include dew point, evaporation rate, energy consideration, condensation control, moisture migration control, design responsibility, IAQ, air distribution, duct design, and heat recovery.

AUSTIN, TEXAS CHAPTER

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May 2016 ASHRAE American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning

DAVID BACORN 2015-2016 Chapter President

UPCOMING EVENTS

May Meeting

May 19 | Dinner

County Line on the Hill

SMPS Networking For

Nerds Workshop

May 26 | Mercury Hall

Events & Performing

Center

Click here for more info

Inside this issue:

Student Activities 2

Grassroots & Govern-

ment Affairs

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YEA Updates 3

Treasurer’s Report 4

BOG Meeting Minutes 5

History, Honors &

Awards

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Membership Promo-

tion

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CRC Photos 8

Bowling Tournament

Results

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STUDENT ACTIVIT IES UPDATES

General News

Below is the Student Activities calendar for the 2015-2016 year. The calendar will be updated as volunteer

opportunities are scheduled. If anyone has interest in involvement or an additional volunteer opportunity,

please email me, Jeff, or Alicia.

FY 2015-2016 Student Activities Calendar

Collegiate News

The UT-Austin Student Branch activities have concluded for the year. Thank you to all the volunteers for making this a great year. K-12/STEM News

The last K-12 event of the year is the Central Texas Discover Engineering Week. This event encourages Central Texas school chil-dren to pursue technology careers by promoting science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) through classroom visits. Steve Hansen & Vanessa Maryott have volunteered for this event. They will be at Lamar Middle School presenting to six (6) eighth grade classes. They would like to have additional volunteers, at least one (1) per class. Let’s NOT let them down. PLEASE consider helping with one of these. You can contact us to assist. Steve Hansen; [email protected] Vanessa Maryott; [email protected] Gayle Davis; [email protected]

The Austin Chapter will qualify for the K-12/STEM Chapter Leadership Award! The K-12/STEM Chapter Leadership Award requires K-12 activity involvement by every Chapter Officer (i.e. President, President-Elect, Vice President, Treasurer, and Secretary) and the SA Chair. The award is presented annually to qualifying Chapters. Chapters are also recognized in an Insights article. First time award recip-ients will receive a patch with the ASHRAE logo and a pin with the year the award was earned.

GAYLE DAVIS 2015-2016 Student Activities

(512) 427-3639

[email protected]

DATE EVENT VOLUNTEER/SPEAKER(S)

5/20/2016 Central Texas Discover Engineering Steve Hansen, Vanessa Maryott

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GRASSROOTS GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS UPDATE

T he Texas 85th Legislature will be called into seesion on Jan. 10, 2017 and end on May 29, 2017. My goal in 2017 is to do a “Day on the Hill” during this session. Anyone who would be willing to help me pull this off please contact me. I will be working with all the chapters in the state. It will be a

huge undertaking-but one that I think will be fun and beneficial for us all. Thanks in advance for helping make the 2017 Day on the Hill a reality.

JON-ERIK JOHNSON 2015-2016 Grassroots Government

Activities

(512) 271-3017

[email protected]

YEA UPDATES

Young Engineers of ASHRAE (YEA)

1. Past Events: A. DKR Stadium Tour – BIG THANKS to Steve Hansen for helping organize and lead this tour!! 2. Upcoming Events: A. Thursday, May 12th @ 4:30 – Tour of Austin Library under construction off Caesar Chavez

3. PE Study Group – Contact [email protected] for more details

4. Mentorship Program – Contact [email protected] for more details

5. Like YEA on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/YEA-Austin/135455226563139

Thank you to all the event attendees for a great time with good company.

This is all made possible through the support of the YEA planning committee, so an extra special thank you to:

Carrie Anne Crawford (EEA), Will Clinton (EEA), Drew Higgins (HTS), Phillip Wood (TRANE)

CARRIE ANNE CRAWFORD 2015-2016 Secretary

(512) 744-4433

[email protected]



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VANESSA MARYOTT 2015-2016 Treasurer

(512) 461-0404

[email protected]

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BOG M EETING MINUTES —APRIL

Austin ASHRAE – BOG Meeting Agenda – Matt’s El Rancho

April 21, 2016 – 10:45 AM

Attendees:

1. David Bacorn, President

a. PAOE Point update –

b. CRC Registration/Transportation

1. Chapter covers half, have employer cover other half

2. David Driggers, President Elect / Newsletter Editor

3. Steve Hansen, Vice President / Programs

a. Still looking for new Certified Public Accountant ($300-$400)

1. Driggers has accountant/attorney in Dripping Springs

b. The ASHRAE webinar “Making Net Zero Positive” given once a year is during today’s meeting. Will re-play on Tuesday,

April 26th @ 1pm in either Siemens or DSI conference rooms

4. Vanessa , Treasurer (absent)

a. Tax form

b. Scanner for Historian - $200 for scanner, and $30 for hand-held recorder.

6. Carrie Anne Crawford, Secretary

a. Next year recommend moving the March meeting to the following week so it doesn’t fall during SXSW or Spring Break.

b. Next year encourage Women in ASHRAE participation – get a Woman speaker (Pat Graef, Julie King, Sheila Hader), host

WIA Breakfast, YEA Ladies Night

6. Derrick Van West, BOG 1 Research Promotion (absent)

a. RP Goal. – originally $44,000 – change to $50,000

b. 30% of goal was met by December. Need to start a call campaign.

c. Upcoming Tournaments

1. Bowling – Monday, May 9th, 7-9; Westgate Lanes - $200/team

7. Justin Johnson, BOG 2 Auditing/Nominating (absent)

a. Up for Chapter Service Award

8. Randy Schrecengost, BOG 3 Historian/Administrator

a. Need to scan archived documents from Austin History Museum

b. Leadership recall interviews.

1. Ask owners how they started their company – capture chapter history

c. Need scanner and voice recorder

d. 2019/2020 is the ASHRAE Society’s 125th anniversary – looking for someone interested in writing an article.

9. Danny Richardson, Membership Promotion

a. Needs to run a report

b. Name tags – let’s just always have nametags, buy extra plastic covers, make new ones as new members join - CAC

10. Gayle Davis, Student Activities

a. Collegiate:

1. Mariana Silva, Student Branch President, receiving Scholarship

b. K-12: Alicia Reich (Schneider), head of k-12 activities


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BOG M EETING MINUTES —APRIL

1. Vanessa and Steve need to volunteer – school visit

2. K-12/STEM Chapter Leadership Award, need to submit by May 30th.

11. Ryan Burke, CTTC / Webmaster Committee Chair -

12. Carrie Anne Crawford, YEA Committee Chair

a. Upcoming Events:

1. Thursday, May 12th @ 4:30pm – Tour of new Austin Library under construction off Caesar Chavez

14. Jon-Erik Johnson, Govt Grassroots

a. Consultants to submit for bEQ

1. We get PAOE points for each member involved in bEQ – if you know anyone eligible let him

know.

15. Andrew Turner, Communications Chair

a. David B. wants to gather rosters from companies and automatically add to constant contact


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HISTORY, HONORS & AWARDS

RANDY SCHRECENGOST 2015-2016 Historian

(512) 427-3623

[email protected]

History

The following are the History goals for this Society year:

· MBO #1 Meet or exceed PAR for History points (PAR 300, 100 minimum required)

Status: Complete - Currently sit at 575 Points and have exceeded PAR. -

· MBO #2 Complete a Chapter Year History Summary for previous Society Year

Status: Complete - Finished working on Charles Whitten’s Society Year of 2009-2010. –

· MBO #3 Complete a History Power Point presentation for Spring CRC

Status: Complete - Finished and it was shown at CRC with others

· Goal #1 Form a Historical Committee of at least 3 members, but no less than 2.

Status: Complete - Committee has 4 members (Jennifer Boulware. Kyle Kramer, David Payne)

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HISTORY, HONORS & AWARDS

· Goal #2 Communicate with Regional Historian (RH) monthly.

Status: On-Going – Most recent email sent March 11th.

· Goal #3 Develop a succession plan to include “How To” word documents for future

Chapter

Historian for review and education for the role and including honors and

awards.

Status: On-Going –Still being developed

As always, this author continues to look for Historical information and welcomes any/all input. Think HISTORY!

Honors and Awards

· MBO #4 Complete paperwork for at least one Honor and Award

Status: Complete – Chapter Service Award (CSA) nominee was presented at 2016 CRC in Tyler TX.

As always, this BOG member would WELCOME ANYONE INTERESTED IN GETTING MORE INVOLVED to assist in the

above items.

RANDY SCHRECENGOST 2015-2016 Historian

(512) 427-3623

[email protected]

MEMBERSHIP PROMOTION

M embership in Austin has been fairly steady all year although we would like to stay

focused on retaining members and want to keep striving to keep the members we

have now. Thanks to all for volunteering this year and all our speakers and I hope

everyone enjoyed the time spent at ASHRAE this year learning about new technologies as well as

networking and improving relationships. Next year Ryan Williams with Texas Air Systems will

be taking over the Membership Committee so if you have any questions about membership,

events or anything regarding the local chapter or society do not hesitate to reach out to him.

SPENCER ROTHERY 2015-2016 Membership Promotion

(512) 416-8822

[email protected]

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