President’s Message

Dear Nebraska ASHRAE Members,

I was glad to see so many of you at

this year’s AHR Expo in Orlando,

FL!! 60,000 of us from around the

world converged on the Orange

County Convention Center despite

the blizzard of the century in the

Northeast (what us Midwesterners

call ‘winter’) and some surprisingly

cold temperatures in Orlando caus-

ing the purchases of Universal Stu-

dios sweatshirt sales to skyrocket.

The meeting and expo continues to

be an incredible event for profes-

sionals to network, explore new

products, obtain some valuable

PDHs, and attend some once in a

lifetime parties. I even got to rub

elbows with an HGTV Celebrity Ni-

cole Curtis of Rehab Addict! I hope

you are already considering the next

winter meeting and AHR expo in

Las Vegas!

And if you missed out or haven’t

had enough, stay tuned for this

year’s Nebraska Architectural

and Engineering Conference

(NAEC) that will be held in

conjunction with the ASHRAE

2016 Central Regional Confer-

ence (2016 CRC) at the down-

town Hilton on Friday, Aug 5th. We

are currently accepting submissions

for speakers, vendors and support.

Please contact myself or Milena

Palahanska-Mavrov at mpalahan-

ska@alvine.com.

Sincerely,

Tyler Glesne

Nebraska ASHRAE Chapter Presi-

dent 2015-2016

*please note that my contact information

has changed. You may reach me at

tglesne@ameresco.com

February 2016 Focus on ASHRAE Technology & Membership Education Volume 57, Issue 6

In This Issue

Omaha Meeting - Tuesday, Feb. 9

Lincoln Meeting - Wednesday, Feb. 10

Meeting Details 2

Card Night 3

Lowdown Showdown 3

Feb. Calendar 4

Grassroots Update 5

Future Meetings 6

REMINDERS

OMAHA—Presidential Theme/MCA Student Project Presentation

with Tim Wentz and MCA Students Peter Niechwiadowicz, Kevin McIn-

tyre, and Adam Crnkovich

Tuesday, February 9th, 2016

Tim Wentz will start the meeting off by unveiling his presidential theme speech. He will be followed by the

MESC Student Chapter’s presentation of their MCAA Student Competition project. The MESC team qualified for the

Final Four in the competition and will give a 15 minute discussion of their project followed by a Q&A session. Help

the students prepare for the competition with your questions!

LINCOLN—Presidential Theme/MCA Student Project Presentation

Wednesday, February 10th, 2016

Valentino’s—Buffet ($15)

See above for meeting information.

For more information or to register for either meeting visit our website www.neashrae.org

February Meetings

Connect with NE ASHRAE Want to stay connected to what Nebraska ASHRAE is do-

ing? Use the links to the right or look for us on social media

today!

You can also join or emailing list by emailing

admin@neashrae.org

ATLANTA – After the success

and popularity of the first model-

ing challenge, the ASHRAE

LowDown Showdown will be a

part of the ASHRAE and

IBPSA-USA SimBuild 2016

Conference, Aug. 10-12, in

Salt Lake City, Utah.

The Showdown is a modeling

challenge designed to showcase

the work of several teams com-

peting to model a net zero or be-

low building. The competition

gives conference attendees the

opportunity to work with vendors

and developers to showcase

their abilities using the vendor’s

simulation tools, innovative work-

flows and creative problem solv-

ing to model a high performance

building.

The Showdown provides a fun

way of encouraging participation,

demonstrating tool usage in

building modeling and for partici-

pants to present their models to

their peers and colleagues.

How to Join the ASHRAE

LowDown Showdown

Each team will be comprised of

volunteers who will sign up to

play a role on each team, such

as:

Engineers

Architects

Designers

Energy modelers

The teams will be given a

“baseline building” and then

each team will have several

months to work together to cre-

ate their proposed building.

At the conference, on the day of

the Showdown, each team will

present their results. Teams will

be scored on a number of crite-

ria.

The deadline to sign up to par-

ticipate is Monday, Feb. 15.

Join a team by signing up here:

https://www.research.net/r/

ashraelowdownshowdown16.

Participation in the ASHRAE

LowDown Showdown is availa-

ble to all registered attendees of

the ASHRAE and IBPSA-USA

SimBuild 2016: Building Perfor-

mance Modeling Conference.

Registration will open this spring.

ASHRAE LowDown Showdown Seeks Participants for

WHEN: Thursday, February 11th @ 4:30 PM

WHERE: Sys-Kool

11313 S. 146th Street

Omaha, NE 68138

COST: $20 per entry, includes pizza & beverages!

RSVP: Josh Marple jmarple@aeskc.com

February 2016

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 3 4 5 6

7 8 9

12pm

Omaha

Monthly

Meeting

10

11:45pm

Lincoln

Monthly

Meeting

11

4:30pm

Card Night

12 13

14 15

Deadline for

Lowdown

Showdown

Registration

16 17 18 19 20

21 22 23 24 25 26 27

28 29

Valentine’s

Day

GRASSROOTS GOVERNMENT ADVOCACY COMMITTEE

The US Senate is poised to consider the Energy Policy Modernization Act (S.2012) be-ginning next Tuesday (1/26). The bill will be debated under an open amendment process that will likely several days – and according to some Senate staff – multiple weeks to com-plete. The details of amend-ments that may be offered are not yet available.

ASHRAE supports the building

energy codes provisions of

S.2012, as well as the reauthor-

ization of the State Energy Pro-

gram and Weatherization Assis-

tance Program. The Society

recommends adding language

from H.R.8 that would support

the consensus process for de-

veloping energy conservation

standards for residential non-

weatherized gas furnaces and

mobile home gas furnaces.

ASHRAE also suggests that

Senators add language sup-

porting the Sensible Accounting

to Value Energy (SAVE) Act,

which would encourage energy

efficiency to be considered dur-

ing mortgage underwriting.

Senate To Consider Landmark Energy Bill Next Week

For more updates visit www.ashrae.org/government-affairs/government-affairs-

updates

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NIST Smart Grid Advisory Committee Meets January 26 – 27

The National Institute of Standards and Technolo-gy’s (NIST) Smart Grid Advisory Committee will hold a meeting on its campus from January 26 to 27 to provide updates on the NIST Smart Grid and

Cyber-Physical Systems Program activities and to discuss resiliency and reliability. Additional infor-mation on the meeting is available here

Local Grassroots Activity

NE ASHRAE Chapter President Tyler Glesne tes-

tified this last Thursday at the State Legislature in

front of the Natural Resources Committee in rela-

tion to Legislative Bill 881. LB 881 is an act relat-

ing to energy financing contracts to amend sec-

tions of the existing legislations. The bill seeks to

clarify and add more specifications to energy per-

formance contracts to state government entities.

Tyler provided the natural resources committee;

which is comprised of 8 state senators - Sen. Ken

Schilz (Chairperson), Sen. Curt Friesen, Sen. Dan

Hughes, Sen. Jerry Johnson, Sen. Rick Kolowski,

Sen. Brett Lindstrom, Sen. John McCollister, and

Sen. David Schnoor; with proposed modifications

to the bill to clarify statements and add require-

ments for energy service providers to be accredit-

ed by NAESCO and have a NE based office.

Membership Promotion

Philip Prest

Research Promotion

David Kros

Nick Mandel

Student Activities

Chris Beaty

Meagan Kurmel

Omaha Technology

Transfer

Aaron Rasell

Lincoln Technology

Transfer

Will Morris

Webmaster

Eric Granzow

Grassroots

Ryan Adrian

Historian

Jim Ellis

YEA

Sarah Poursharafeddin

Callen Schwank

Special Events

Kyle Heberly

Aaron Rasell

Newsletter

Sara Robbins

Publicity (UNO)

David Yuill

Reception

Bryan Schwartz

Cecily Haggerty

Chapter

Officers

President

Tyler Glesne

President Elect

Jessica Errett

Secretary

Tom Lewis

Treasurer

Shaun Nienhueser

1st Board Member

Chris Hawk

2nd Board Member

Chris Beaty

Board Ex-Officio

Jeff Backemeyer Visit us on the web at www.neashrae.org

Chapter Chairpersons

Omaha Lincoln

Mar. 8th Flow Measuring Technologies

(Tech Session to Follow)

11:45am

Anthony’s Mar. 9th

Air Flow Measuring Technologies

(Tech session to follow)

12:00pm

Valentino’s

Apr. 12th Student Presentation(s)

11:45am

Anthony’s Apr. 13th

SAC Federal Credit Union Chilled

Beam System

12:00pm

Valentino’s

May 10th SAC Federal Credit Union Chilled

Beam System TBD May 11th CRES Tour TBD

June ASHRAE Golf Outing Iron Horse GC June ASHRAE Golf Outing Iron Horse GC

Future meetings (Topics subject to change)