October 2015 Newsletter

                                                Nathan Stalker          

 

 

Welcome to another ASHRAE year. Before anything else, I need to thank Mike Daly for his dedication and hard work as last year’s Detroit AHSRAE president. We had a great year and that is only accomplished through the work of many volunteers. Thank you to Mike Daly, the Board of Governors, Committee Chairs and all volunteers! ASHRAE wouldn’t be what it is without all of you!

 

Also, a special thank you to Jeff Krieg and Derek Crowe for heading up the ASHRAE resource promotion campaign for last year and Paul Joliat for once again heading up the golf outing. The golf outing is a major contributor to the overall resource promotion campaign. The Detroit Chapter made a total contribution to ASHRAE of $24,769. We exceeded our goal and achieved High 5 Goal (highest total in past 5 years), Challenge Goal (+5% of High 5) and the High 5 Award (largest amount over a 5 year period). Great Job! Way to Go! Thanks again to everyone who contributed.

 

We’ve already had our 1^st meeting of the year, which was used to celebrate and congratulate our many award winners from the Chapter. Thank you to Filza Walters, Janice Means and the LTU ASHRAE student chapter for hosting the event and helping with everything. It was a great evening. If you were not able to attend, be sure to read all about it in the September meeting recap. Don’t forget, our next meeting is coming up October 20, 2015 at the San Marino Club in Troy. We are having a joint meeting with SMACNA. The SMACNA National Technical Director, Eli Howard will be presenting on the SMACNA HVAC Commissioning Systems 2nd ed. 2013.

 

I want to remind everyone that registration is now open for the ASHRAE winter meeting in Orlando, FL. This happens in January in conjunction with the AHR trade show. More information is available on the ASHRAE Society website.

 

I’m pleased to be able to serve as your president for the upcoming year. We have lots of great things instore for the year, including our 100 year anniversary celebration. The Detroit Chapter of ASHRAE reaches the 100 year mark on February 5^th, 2016 and we’re planning a gala celebration (May 6, 2016) to commemorate the milestone. We have a full series of meetings and/or technical tours in the works for the upcoming year, many of which will provided PDHs. I’m looking forward to another great year for Detroit ASHRAE. And, one final note, we are always looking for additional help on many of the committees. If you would like to help out, please contact myself or any of the committee chairs.

 

October 20, 2015

4:30 PM to 8:00 PM

 

San Marino Club

1685 E Big Beaver Rd

Troy, MI 48083

 

4:30 - 5:30pm Technical Session

5:00 - 6:00pm Social Hour

6:00 - 8:00pm Dinner and Program

 

$0.00 ASHRAE Registration

 

 

Presented by:  Eli Howard, SMACNA National Technical Director

 

Presented by:  Eli Howard, SMACNA National Technical Director

 

This year, the Region V Chapters Regional Conference (CRC) was held on August 6^th through the 8^th in Evansville, IN. There were five members from the Detroit Chapter in attendance. Mike Daly and I attended as Delegate and Alternate for the Detroit Chapter. Janice Means attended and serves as the Region V Student Activities Regional Vice Chair. Derek Crowe attended and served as the Region V Resource Promotion Regional Vice Chair. And, last but not least, Sonya Pouncy attended and serves as the Region V Grassroots Government Advocacy Committee Regional Vice Chair. The Detroit ASHRAE Chapter is very involved and well represented at the Regional and National level.

 

The technical tour for the CRC included a tour of a land fill gas processing facility and the boiler plant of the facility which purchases the landfill gas. The landfill gas processing facility draws the gas out of the wells at the adjacent landfill, cleans it, dries it, compresses it and delivers it, through about 5 miles of piping, to the high pressure steam boiler plant at a Mead Johnson Nutrition Co. production facility (Mead Johnson Nutrition produces the Enfamil brand of baby nutritional products). The boiler plant consists of three 800 hp steam boilers delivering steam at 324 psi to the facility. The boilers are outfitted to burn a mixture of 80% landfill gas/20% natural gas. It was an interesting tour, which shed some light on how landfills operate and how they’ve developed processes to use the byproducts; if the gas is not recovered, it must be burnt off.

 

Next year’s CRC will be hosted by the Dayton, OH chapter. All committee chairs and board members are encouraged to attend. Registration is open to all ASHRAE members is a great opportunity to see how ASHRAE works above the chapter level.

 

September’s Detroit ASHRAE meeting was “Honors and Awards Night”. The meeting was hosted by the Lawrence Technological University (LTU) ASHRAE Student Chapter. Thank you to Filza Walters, Janice Means and the members of the LTU ASHRAE student chapter which helped with the meeting. The LTU ASHRAE Student Chapter is a great group of students and they were very helpful in preparing the meeting room, taking pictures, cleaning up when were finished, etc.

 

 

The evening’s events began with a tour of the construction site for the LTU Marburger STEM Center. The tour was hosted by Mr. John P. Cole and Brian Donavan.

 

 

Mr. John P. Cole, Principal & Director of Mechanical Engineering, celebrated his 36th year with the Albert Kahn Family of Companies this year. John, a past-president of the Detroit Chapter of ASHRAE, is a registered professional engineer and LEED accredited professional. Mr. Cole provided a guided tour of the currently under construction, A. Alfred Taubman Engineering, Architecture, and Life Sciences Complex on LTU's campus. He spoke about the unique aspects and responsibilities of the mechanical systems engineer during the construction administration phase of a project, and provided a brief summary of the DOAS system and water source heat pumps.

 

 

Mr. Brian Donavan is a Senior Project Engineer for DeMaria. He is a LEED Accredited Professional and brings 17 years of construction experience to the Lawrence Technological University Taubman Complex. With a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from LTU, Brian ensures the project plans and specifications are converted into state-of-the-art physical structures and facilities.

 

During the Honors and Awards presentation, we had the privilege of presenting the following honors and awards.

 

 

Joseph B. Olivieri Scholarship Award, in the amount of $2,000, was presented to Nada Saghir, a junior at LTU. This scholarship award is presented by the ASHRAE Detroit Chapter. Nada is a dedicated and deserving student and Detroit ASHRAE is pleased to provide support for Nada’s education and support of her future work contributing to maintaining the sustainability of the built environment.

 

 

ASHRAE Society Student Design Awards - Integrated Systems and Building Design Competition - 3rd Place – LTU Team of Kenneth Fitzgerald, Robert Melton, Chris Fazzalare, and Crystal Smith. This is a student design competition in which they placed 3^rd at the Society Level. This is an exceptional accomplishment. Congratulations to the entire team.

 

 

ASHRAE Society – Distinguished Service Award – presented to Kishor Khankari, Janice Means and Filza Walters

 

These are Society level awards. The awards were officially presented at the ASHRAE summer meeting in Atlanta. Kishor, Janice and Fliza are all past presidents of the Detroit Chapter, are very active at both the chapter and regional levels and continue to contribute their time and efforts to ASHRAE and our Chapter. Thank you for all of your support over the years.

 

1st Place – Educational Facilities – New – Wayne Kerbelis for the SVSU Ryder Center Fieldhouse Addition. This award was a Regional Award from the Region V Chapter Technology Transfer Committee. Congratulations Wayne.

 

1st Place Inst. Building – Other – Brian Runde for the U of M – Institute for Social Research Addition. This award was also a Regional Award from the Region V Chapter Technology Transfer Committee. Congratulations Brian.

 

Certificate of Appreciation for Research Promotion – Eric Krieg and Derek Crowe were presented with Certificates of Appreciation for the work as Detroit Chapter research promotion and Region V research promotion. For the 2014-2015 ASHRAE year, the Detroit Chapter raised $24,769 and the Region as a whole raised $124,720.

 

 

Certificate of Appreciation – Past President – Mike Daly was presented with a certificate of appreciation for serving as president of the Detroit Chapter for 2014-2015. Thanks Mike for your contribution to the Detroit Chapter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With a rich history of great designs and innovative systems coming from the chapter members of ASHRAE Detroit, there is a lot to be proud of! As we reach the centennial mark for our local chapter, we also celebrate Detroit as one of the great comeback cities in the United States.

 

Please set aside the evening of Friday May 6^th, 2016 on your calendar for The Detroit Chapter Centennial Gala. We will be celebrating with all of our members, young and old, engineers, architects, contractors, building owners, ASHRAE society dignitaries, manufacturer’s representatives, students and retirees. All those that make our Detroit Chapter great as well as their husbands, wives and significant others that have been and will continue to be a huge part of our chapters strength are invited to celebrate together.

 

A committee is being formed now to plan the finer details of our celebration and the committee welcomes any volunteers to help with the planning. Please call or E-mail Paul Prentice of R.L. Deppmann Co. to help out. A bigger committee makes for an awesome party and happy committee members. Any small way that you can contribute your help will be appreciated. If even just thoughts of venues and types of entertainment you might have would be great. There will be opportunities for event sponsorships of all sizes to help with the gala.

 

Please contact:

Paul Prentice