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THERMOGRAM Volume LIV Issue 09
May 2020
www.ashrae-balto.org
ASHRAE May 7th Meeting
Main Meeting: Virtual Design and Construction
Our next meeting will take place online via GoToMeeting. In alignment with the “Green Trends” of ASHRAE, we have eliminated the paper copies of the Membership Roster. An electronic copy is available, upon request.
Main Presentation Virtual Design and Construction Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) is a process that uses LiDAR scanning technology and BIM technologies to assist in the design and construction efforts. VDC is used in lieu of traditional “engineering field survey” to confirm existing conditions and it can scan interior spaces with accuracy up to a 1/16th of an inch. This technology allows for surveys be to be completed faster, and limits return trips to a jobsite to confirm dimensions that may have been missed. More accurate field surveys can also result in more competitive bids and less unknowns during construction. Now more than ever, if we can use VDC technology to limit time on a jobsite, then we should be considering it! Speakers
Timothy Reynolds, PE, CEM, CxA, EMP, LEED AP KCI Mechanical/Energy Practice Leader
Colton Cilento, Prof LS KCI Surveys Mid-Atlantic 3D Technology Manager
Chapter Updates: 12:00 pm – 12:15 pm Main Speaker: 12:15 pm – 1:15 pm
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2019-2020 Chapter Leadership Roster Board of Governors President Steph Kunkel JMT P:410.316.2461 [email protected] President-Elect Jeff Shook Chesapeake Systems P:443.561.1652 [email protected] Treasurer Sam Philipp JMT P:410.316.2485 [email protected] Secretary Nancy Neely Johnson Controls, Inc. P: 410.746.4168 [email protected] Governor/Asst. Secretary Theresa Schroeder Whitman Requardt P:443.224.1594 [email protected] Governor Steve Williams James Posey P:410.265.6100 [email protected] Governor/Senior Advisor Sherry Abbott-Adkins A Squared Plus Engineering P:443.977.9741 [email protected] Governor/Past-President Brad Watkins Cummins-Wagner P:410.880.0850 x123 [email protected]
Committee Chairs Attendance/Recpt. Kevin Lindemann Chesapeake Systems P:410.561.1655 [email protected] Attendance/Recpt. Carlo Faudale Chesapeake Systems P:410.561.1568 [email protected] Christmas Party John Prusak Johnson Controls, Inc. P:410.527.2612 [email protected] Chapter Programs Jeff Shook Chesapeake Systems P:443.561.1652 [email protected] CTA (Tech Awards) Jeff Shook Chesapeake Systems P:443.561.1652 [email protected] CTTC (Programs) Jeff Shook Chesapeake Systems P:443.561.1652 cttc@ ashrae-balto.org Engineers Week Robert Broczkowski Mueller Associates P:410.652.5437 [email protected] Fishing Event Kurt Wallace Advanced Thermal Solutions P:410.247.7901 [email protected] Government Affairs Ben Becker KCI P:410.245.1657 [email protected] Government Affairs Brady Orem KCI P:[email protected] Golf Outing Tyler Lee Chesapeake Systems P:443.561.1650 [email protected] Golf Outing Nick Spicher Chesapeake Systems P:443.561.1648 [email protected] Historian Nicola Eastaway Whitman Requardt P:410.235.3450 [email protected] Membership Kaylee Haupt BCPS P:443.809.9079 [email protected] Membership Meggie Gabrielian Victaulic P:484.714.8941 [email protected] Refrigeration Jon Olmstead Trane P:410-403-2200 [email protected] Research Promotion Jimmy Cahill Trane P:410.403.2168 [email protected] Research Promotion Dave Cunningham Havtech P:443.832.1729 [email protected] Scholarship David Cunningham Havtech P:443.832.1729 [email protected] Scholarship Nick Spicher Chesapeake Systems P:443.561.1648 [email protected] Student Activities Robert Broczkowski Mueller Associates P:410.652.5437 [email protected] Student Activities Simona Tsvetkova JMT P:410316.2263 [email protected] Thermogram Kelly Brennan Schneider Electric P:410.381.7655 [email protected] Young Engineers Brooke Benson Johnson Controls, Inc. P:410.790.0140 [email protected] Web Technician Thomas Ogden Whitman Requardt P:443.686.2036 [email protected]
President’s Pen
I hope you and your families are able to stay home and healthy during these times. I certainly have missed seeing you at our monthly meetings at the Engineer’s Club.
If you haven’t heard, ASHRAE Society is no longer holding the 2020 Annual Conference in Austin at the end of June; rather, the plan is to have a virtual conference instead. Please visit the ASHRAE 2020 Virtual Conference website for additional information as it’s available. In addition, please note that the ASHRAE HVAC Design Training in DC from June 15-19th was also cancelled.
Based on Society’s cancellations of their in-person events through June, the ASHRAE Baltimore Chapter will be following that precedent in an effort to keep you, our valued members, safe and healthy. That said, we have a lot going on over the next few months that we will be doing virtually; please continue reading below and see the additional information later in this Thermogram.
The May Meeting will be held on Thursday, May 7th online via GoToMeeting from 12pm (noon)—1:15 pm. Engineers from KCI will present on Virtual Design and Construction. Now, more than ever, this topic rings true to all of us in the industry! We will be charging a small fee for this month’s meeting to donate to Research Promotion (RP). Please register on our website to receive the GoToMeeting information: https://ashrae-balto.org/. Please note: we can only issue PDHs if your login information is accurate (name and email address) when you sign in to each GoToMeeting.
The May Meeting this year is dedicated to our Former Chapter Presidents, Students and Scholarships, RP, and the Baltimore Chapter’s 80th Celebration! We will be sharing additional information regarding all of these milestones in the coming weeks. In addition, this is the time of year that we vote on next year’s Chapter Board members. We’re going to be doing this digitally for the first time! See additional information in this Thermogram to learn how to place your vote. If you have any questions about logging in to our website, please reach out to our Web Technician and Electronic Communications Chair, Tom Ogden.
Unfortunately, neither our 9th Annual Rock Fish event nor our 63rd Annual Golf Outing will be held this spring. Our plan is to postpone both events to either later in the summer, or early fall of 2020. If you have already purchased boats and/or foursomes for golf, please reach out to Tyler Lee (Golf) and Kurt Wallace (Fishing) to inquire about refunds or holds on financial allocations until the events are held.
Have you been having trouble obtaining your PDH’s recently? Lucky for you, ASHRAE has developed a new solution to continue to bring technical content to our members. See the page later on dedicated to ASHRAE’s Tech Hours.
As a reminder, ASHRAE developed proactive guidance to help address concerns related to COVID-19 with respect to the operation and maintenance of HVAC systems which can be viewed at ashrae.org/covid19.
Continuing to do our best to bring you value while social distancing,
Steph Kunkel ASHRAE Baltimore Chapter President, 2019-2020
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Meeting Schedule Please mark your calendar with the following dates for the 2019 through 2020 Baltimore Chapter meetings. A complete schedule indicating seminar, technical session and main meeting topics will be published in the coming month’s Thermogram and is also available on the chapter website, www.ashrae-balto.org.
2019-2020
August 15-17, 2019 Chapter Regional Conference Norfolk, VA
September 11, 2019 Main Meeting: "Can't We All Just Get Along?" – Keeping Your Eye on the Prize Despite Getting Poked in It (Alternative Dispute Resolution in Construction) - Mitchell Swann
ESB
Research Promotion Night
Tech Session: This is ASHRAE and The 2019-2024 Strategic Plan—Steph Kunkel
October 3, 2019 Main Meeting: Discussing Myths and Facts about Legionnaires—Dustin Cohick
ESB
Tech Session: Updates to the Ventilation Standard—Brendon Burley
November 7, 2019 Main Meeting: Design Considerations When Using Hydronics and VRF
ESB
MP Night Tech Session: VRF and Hydronics Technology Comparison
December 6, 2019 70th Annual Christmas Party Timonium Fairgrounds, 4H Building
January 8, 2020 Tour of the Guinness Brewery Presentation: Integrating Renewable Energy Systems into Buildings—Sheila Hayter
Guinness Brewery, Elkridge, MD
February 13, 2020 Refrigeration Tour and Update on Refrigerants—Ethan Armes The Charmery & Union Brewery
March 5, 2020 Main Meeting: Owner’s Perspective on Healthcare Construction & Commissioning Process—Dave Fisher
ESB
MP Night Tech Session: Relative Humidity and Humidification for Healthcare—Ken Frazier
March 25, 2020 Managing Across the Generations—Ryan McShane GoToMeeting
Inaugural Baltimore ASHRAE Diversity Event
April 2, 2020 Tech Session: Utilities and Energy Savings—Chet Knaup GoToMeeting
May 7, 2020 Main Meeting: Virtual Design and Construction — KCI GoToMeeting
Former Presidents’ Night, Student Night, RP Night, 80th Celebration
POSTPONED 9th Annual Rockfish Tournament Happy Harbor Marina
POSTPONED 63rd Annual Golf Outing Turf Valley CC
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Election Ballot Baltimore Chapter of ASHRAE 2020-2021
This slate of Officers for the Baltimore Chapter of ASHRAE has agreed to serve on the Board in the capacities listed below and are being presented to the membership for consideration.
Please indicate your confirmation of these nominees by checking the box opposite their name and submitting your vote on our ASHRAE Baltimore Chapter website by April 30, 2020. The ballots will be tabulated, and the election results will be announced in the June Thermogram newsletter.
Nomination of Officers Officers and Board Members for 2020-2021
__ President-Elect / Vice President Sam Philipp __ Treasurer Nancy Neely __ Secretary Terry Schroeder __ Governor / Assistant Secretary Steve Williams __ Governor Kevin Lindemann
The following chapter members will serve on the Board, but do not require a vote. Their names are being presented to our membership to welcome any comments.
After you login to the website, you’ll see the 2020-21 Election Ballot available for selection on the left side of the page, as shown below:
President Jeff Shook
Former President Stephanie Kunkel
Senior Advisor Jen Leach
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The Research Promotion Committee manages and supports both the Society-level fundraising and Chapter-level fundraising of the RP Campaign. Traditionally supporting just research, the RP Campaign was expanded 10 years ago to include support of Education & ALI, Endowed Research through ASHRAE Foundation, YEA programs, ASHRAE Scholarships, and the General/Unrestricted fund. Research, the backbone of ASHRAE, remains the primary fund of the program with over $2 million raised for this program annually.
Ways You Can Contribute:
Online at WWW.ASHRAE.ORG. On the top of the page click ‘make a gift’ and select ‘ASHRAE RP Campaign’. Fill in all the required info. Please remember to put BALTIMORE CHAPTER in the Assigned ASHRAE Chapter area so your chapter can receive credit.
Or, make your checks out to ASHRAE RESEARCH FUND. Please remember to add BALTIMORE CHAPTER to the memo line, and send to:
1791 Tullie Circle NE Atlanta, Georgia 30329-2305.
Have questions? Please contact our Baltimore Chapter RP Chair, Dave Cunningham at 443-832-1729, or [email protected]
Thank you so much for you support last year and we hope we can count on you again this year!
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ASHRAE’s Honors and Awards program recognizes the dedicated ASHRAE Members who give freely of their time and expertise to fulfill the Society’s mission of advancing the arts and sciences of HVAC&R to serve humanity and provide a sustainable world.
How to Nominate Information, Nomination Forms, and Submission Dates
Personal Honors | Personal Awards for General Society Activities Personal Awards for Specific Society Activities | Paper Awards
Society Awards to Groups or Chapters | Chapter and Regional Awards
ASHRAE's awards fall into one of six categories: Personal Honors; Personal Awards for General Society Activities; Personal Awards for Specific Society Activities; Paper Awards; Society Awards to Groups or Chapters; Chapter and Regional Awards.
Nominations for Personal Honors and Personal Awards for General Society Activities may be made by chapters, regions, committees or individual ASHRAE members. Nominations for Personal Awards for Specific Society Activities and Society Awards to Groups or Chapters are made by the committee which sponsors the award. Recommendations for Paper Awards are made by the Society Program Committee. Nominations for Regional Awards are made by the delegate from a candidate’s chapter at the Chapters Regional Conference (CRC).
Nomination deadlines are listed at ashrae.org/honorsandawards. All nominations and inquiries should be directed to: Honors and Awards Committee Staff Liaison at [email protected]
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LEADERSHIP RECALL INTERVIEW
Tyler Lee - Past President, Baltimore Chapter 2009-2010 An interview by Baltimore Chapter Historian, Nicola Eastaway
1. Would you give a brief biographical sketch of your life? Born in Plymouth NH in 1971. Oldest of 3 with 2 younger sisters. Elementary School in NH then moved to upstate NY for High school & College. Graduated Hartwick College with a BS in Geology. Began working for an environmental engineering firm in Saratoga Springs, NY. After 4 years I was looking for a change and decided to join Emerson Swan (an HVAC manufacturer’s rep agency) as an inside salesperson. After a few years inside I eventually moved to an outside sales position. In 2001 I was looking for a change of scenery so I moved my family to Annapolis Maryland to work for Chesapeake Systems. My youngest daughter (Raeghan) is 16 years old and attending South River High School while my oldest Daughter (Morgan) is a freshman at Rensselaer Poly Tech (RPI) in Troy NY and pursuing a double major in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
2. What attracted you to engineering and the HVAC industry? I have always had passion for collecting vintage Texas Instrument calculators. I figured that getting into the HVAC industry would better my chances for finding the coveted I-2500 Datamath single-chip calculator for my collection.
3. Describe the industry at the time. What were the challenges that you and your colleagues were facing? When I first started in the HVAC industry individual computers were not common. Watching as technology evolved has sped up the pace at which we all work. It’s absolutely amazing how much more we can get done in a day. One negative effect of this evo-lution is that we personally interact with each other less often. This industry is built on long standing personal relationships which is one of the reasons I love it.
4. How and when did you get started in ASHRAE? I started attending ASHRAE meetings when I first got into the industry so that I could educate myself on the different equipment & applications. Starting with a geologist’s background didn’t expose me to some of the other sciences of the HVAC industry, so I started attending ASHRAE meeting in upstate NY in order to educate myself on the different system designs & application of equipment.
5. What was your ASHRAE chapter, regional and Society experience?
I started serving in the Baltimore chapter in 2001 as the attendance & reception chair. After helping with a few other committee
positions I was “drafted to the big leagues” as a Governor. Little did I know… this now meant I was on the ASHRAE conveyor belt of positions which culminated in my 2009 election to Presidency. After a few years off I was asked by an ASHRAE friend to
help the chapter as the 2012 CRC Chairperson. We had a great CRC that year thanks to the efforts of all the other Past Presidents that I drafted.
6. What were the major issues facing ASHRAE during your presidency or your time serving in subsequent positions? I had a great Board of Governors when I was the President so chapter operations ran very smooth.
7. What were your presidential theme/goals?
Don’t get impeached!! 8. What do you consider to be the major accomplishments during your term or your time serving in subsequent positions?
One of the major accomplishments was Captain Sully landing that plane in the Hudson on January 15th, 2009. Way to go Sully!! 9. What has ASHRAE meant to you personally?
I have made some amazing lifelong friendships from being involved with ASHRAE.
10. What advice would you give to a young person entering the HVAC field? I would encourage a young person entering the industry to participate on a committee. Most of the people involved are fun to spend time with and it will definitely help your career to build a network of friends.
11. What other interests and/or hobbies do you have? I race high performance catamarans and trimarans as well as scaring rockfish away from my baits on weekends.
12. Are there any other comments that you would like to make?
Go Ravens in 2020!!
