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Monthly Membership Meetings
Monthly membership meetings are typically held on the second Tuesday of the month from 11:30-1:00pm at the Adventure Science Center's Jack Wood Hall, 800 Fort Negley Blvd. 37203. Lunch is free for paid chapter members and students. The cost is $15 for guests and those with unpaid chapter dues. The meeting schedule for the 2021-2022 year is as follows.
Meeting dates:
Thursday, October 8th - Sand Volleyball @ Sandbar Nashville. Must register in advance! See flyer below for more info
Tuesday, October 11th - Terry E. Townsend, P.E. (Distinguished Lecturer, Past Society President) Steps to Making Existing Commercial Buildings More Efficient, Healthy and Comfortable
Tuesday, November 8th -Andrey Livchak, Ph.D. (Distinguished Lecturer) Energy Efficient Solutions for Commercial Kitchen Ventilation
Helpfull advice for sand volleyball tournament registration. to begin, scan QR code below. Also - the Promo Code is ABOVE the number of ASHRAE guests that you select and you MUST register ASHRAE guests and nonASHRAE guests separately.
Delete any preceding Zeros in your ASHRAE member number and also the trailing letter, which may look like a '1' if it is a capitalized 'i'
In Person Meeting: Tuesday, October 11th, 11:30 to 1PM at the Tennessee Engineering Center:
Topic : Steps to Making Existing Commercial Buildings More Efficient, Healthy and Comfortable
by: Terry Townsend, PE (Distinguished Lecturer)
Even though the U.S. Building Codes are becoming more energy stringent, our country’s Energy Utilization Index(EUI) is rapidly increasing every year because only 5% of our commercial building stock is being built or renovated each year. This means that the remaining 95% of our commercial buildings are experiencing reduced energy performance each year. This trend in existing buildings can be changed by the implementation of a Technical (testing based) Retro-commissioning (RCx) program that incorporates technical energy audit procedures, measurements of building performance metrics, savings calculation procedures and corresponding financial analysis methodologies that building owners can understand and interpret for developing both short term and long term programs for building systems’ upgrades. Case studies are presented for various RCx projects that demonstrate the advantage of conducting a Technical RCx program and the merit of implementing an Ongoing Commissioning (OCx) program for a building owner to be able to maintain a sought level of building performance for an ongoing basis.