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October 10, 2013: Vol. 56, No. 03 Produced by: Jay Sullivan Chapter Newsletter Editor/ Chairman
The Therm, is a monthly Newsletter for chapter members and HVAC&R professionals alike, that provides information about the Fort Worth Chapter of ASHRAE.
President’s Message
Welcome fellow Fort Worth Chapter ASHRAE Members. This month’s Chapter meeting is on October 16th
and we are excited to be able to bring you a program on Designing to Avoid Acoustical and System Pressure Issues from Greg Schmelig, LEED AP. Our speaker, Greg Schmelig has been in the Industrial Air Pollution, Bulk Material Handling, and Commercial HVAC systems marketplace for over 19 years. Our November meeting will be a refrigeration tour of Miller Brewery. Please note two very important differences about our November monthly meeting. The date is the 13th which is the second Wednesday of the month, and the location is The Miller Brewery (7001 South Freeway | Fort Worth, TX 76134). We will send out reminder emails and pass out flyers at our October meeting about this change in typical date and location. We will not be having a December meeting due to the holidays and our January meeting is scheduled for January 15th back at our typical location, the Fort Worth Petroleum Club at 777 Main St, Fort Worth, TX and start at 11:30am. We have set up a chapter Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/ashraeftw. We will add the link to the page on the Chapter’s website. Please like us on Facebook! Our Fort Worth ASHRAE Fall Golf Classic is coming up Monday, November 4th at Great Southwest Country Club (612 East Avenue J, Grand Prairie, TX 75075). We will send out reminder emails with team entry forms and will pass out team entry forms at our October meeting. We hope that everyone can make it out and have some fun with your fellow members and help our chapter raise money for research promotion. Sponsorship opportunities still exist for lunch, trophies, hole-in-one insurance, ultrasonic club cleaning and raffle items. I am enjoying the opportunity to serve the Chapter as this year’s president and encourage you to please reach out and contact me with any feedback, questions, comments or concerns. Together we will all make this a successful year for our Fort Worth ASHRAE Chapter. Thank you, Tony Finch, P.E. Chapter President 2013-2014
Next Chapter Meeting
October 16, 2013
11:30AM
“Designing to Avoid Acoustical
And System Pressure Issues”
777 Main St. 40th Floor
Fort Worth, TX
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October Program – October 16, 2013
Date: October 16, 2013
Time: 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Location: Petroleum Club, 777 Main Street, Fort Worth, TX
Topic: Designing to Avoid Acoustical and System Pressure Issues
Outline:
Where is noise control needed and why?
Why do noise problems occur?
The “Catalogue Approach” – Why does it put Consultant’s at risk?
The Integrated Systems Approach – How it can reduce a Consultant’s project risk
How silencer manufactures can help you reduce risk, save design time, space and energy.
Speaker Biography:
Greg Schmelig, LEED AP, has been in the Industrial Air Pollution, Bulk Material Handling, and Commercial HVAC systems marketplace for over 19 years beginning with the designing and sales of industrial air pollution and bulk material handling systems in 1992. After achieving his M.B.A. from Maryville University he is now concentrating on the acoustical as well as the energy concerns involved in providing sound controlled HVAC systems with Vibro-Acoustics. He is also able to provide consultation as to LEED point achievement within the commercial space via his achievement of LEED AP status in 2009 and is taking an active role in attempting to shape the LEED point system in so far as points being available for acoustical control systems.
Greg Schmelig, LEED APVibro-Acoustics
314-308-1862
September Meeting Minutes – Board of Governors
Call to Order – Sign-in
10:30 AM
President’s Award of Excellence (PAOE) Update
Par Last Year YTD Goal o Membership Promotion: 800 1450 o Student Activities: 500 1585 o Research Promotion: 1050 3015 o Historical Reporting: 300 600 o Chapter Operations: 600 1980 o Chapter Technology Transfer: 850 1950
TOTALS 4,100 0 10,580
RP DOLLARS
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September Meeting Minutes – Board of Governors (cont.)
Officer Reports
President-Elect (Sullivan) o MBO o PAOE o Nothing to Report
Secretary (Upham) o MBO o PAOE o Nothing to Report
Treasurer (Schroeder) o MBO o PAOE o Nothing to Report
BOG At-Large (Finch, Merkel, Sullivan, Upham, Pace, Bost, Akers)
Committee Chairman Reports
CTTC (Brunkenhoefer) o MBO o Speaker lined up for next month at Petroleum Club o PAOE o November meeting set for second Tuesday of November, tentative Miller Coors Brewery Tour. Need to cancel
originally scheduled November meeting with the Petroleum Club. o Send out survey update in September
Historian (Martinez) o MBO – Sign MBOs and get them to your RVCs o PAOE
Honors & Awards (Akers) o MBO – No Report o PAOE
Membership Promotion (Woodlee) o MBO – New members have been added o PAOE
Refrigeration (Bohn) o MBO – Sign and get to RVC o PAOE – Looking for Joint Tour at Miller Coors with the Dallas Chapter
Research Promotion (Merkel) o MBO o PAOE o 50/50 Raffle – will hold off on until the car show o Will confirm car show date with Larry Akers
Special Events (Rath) o MBO o PAOE o November 4
th Golf Tournament, 12 Noon Start
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September Meeting Minutes – Board of Governors (cont.)
Student Activities (Bost) o MBO – Signed and sent to RVC o PAOE - Added Adam for TCU, Tony for UTA, and Dan for K-12 o UTA had their engineering kick off meeting, signed up 14 new members, renewed 2 members, 1
st meeting
September 19th o Has contacted Dr. Bittle to set up TCU meeting
Webmaster (Pace) o MBO o PAOE o Will get website updated and will post resumes to website
YEA (Baierski) o MBO o PAOE o Nothing to report Government (Merkel) - Has formed committee, will compile list of different government bodies, and will post to the website. - Will be in contact with RVC. CRC (Parrish) - Suggested that we send a mailing to members that were not here to mention updates. - Will send invitations to Northeast Oklahoma Chapter for CRC. - The summer Golf tournament added over $7,000 to the CRC fund.
PR / Outreach (Harris) - Nothing to report
Sustainability (Staudt) - Looking for joint meeting for sustainability
Grassroots (Fields) - Nothing to report
Old Business
MBOs – sign and return, send to RVC Look for PAOE points and report to president
New Business
Car Show October 16
th – Petroleum Club
Speaker – Greg Schmelig, LEED AP, Vibro-Acoustics Topic – Designing to Avoid Acoustical and System Pressure Issues
Closing
11:00 AM
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September Meeting Minutes – General Business
Call to Order 11:45 AM – Self introductions
43 members in attendance.
Old Business
o Thanks again to everyone involved with helping to raise funds for the 2015 Chapter Regional Conference in Fort
Worth through the Summer CRC Golf Tournament Fundraiser. The tournament was a huge success and helped to raise over $7,000 for our upcoming CRC.
New Business
o Clif Upham motioned to approve the Therm for this month, Dan Merkel seconded. o Our next general business meeting will be on the third Wednesday (October 16
th) of the month and will be back at
the Petroleum Club. o Speaker – Greg Schmelig, LEED AP o Topic – Designing to Avoid Acoustical and System Pressure Issues
o Fall ASHRAE Golf Tournament scheduled for November 4th
at Great Southwest Golf Club.
Program
Travis Brunkenhoefer introduced the speaker.
Speaker: RALPH KITTLER, P.E.
Speaker Bio:
Mr. Kittler is a Co-Founder and Director of Sales & Marketing for Seresco Technologies Inc., a dehumidifier manufacturer. He is a Professional Engineer with a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Lakehead University, Ontario Canada in 1989.
Mr. Kittler is an ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer and well regarded in the HVAC industry as an expert in dehumidification and Indoor Pool Design. He has been in the dehumidification and Natatorium design field for 20 years. He is TC 9.8’s revisor responsible for Chapter 4 (Large Building Air Conditioning Applications) of ASHRAE’s 1999/2003/2007/2011 Applications Design Handbook which covers Natatorium Design. He is also TC 8.10’s Handbook subcommittee chair for the new Dehumidifiers chapter (24) in the Systems and Equipment Handbook and speaks regularly at ASHRAE meetings across the country.
LECTURE TOPIC:
Natatorium Design and Dehumidification.
These facilities are notoriously complex to design and can be expensive to operate. The presentation covers the many critical system design aspects of a Natatorium which include the fundamentals of psychrometrics, dew point, humidity/condensation control, moisture load calculation, air distribution, ventilation requirements, water chemistry and how to optimize your operating conditions to minimize operating costs.
Closing @ 1:00 PM
o Reminder to fill out speaker evaluation forms. o Next month’s meeting will be back at the Petroleum Club on the third Wednesday of the month (October 16
th).
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Treasurer’s Report – Jay Sullivan
CRC Fund Update – Tony Finch
STARTING BALANCE DATE 9/1/2013 NEW BALANCE DATE 10/07/2013
Treasurer's Report Tony Finch
Financial Data:
Starting Balance (9/1/13): $8,750.09 Deposits:
9/12/2013 7-29 Golf Tournament - ck# 059760 McMillian James Equipment Co $1,250.00 9/12/13- 7-29 Golf Tournament (Portion of the Food) -ck# 044396 Texas AirSystems $716.00
Subtotal: $10,716.09
Payments:
Subtotal: $0.00
New Balance as of 10/07/13: $10,716.09
Invoices Billed - 8/27/2013: Chris Hill w/Cohesive Automation/Alerton for team $500.00
Jeff Wagner w/ McMillian James for team $500.00 Collin Sandifer w/Schneider Electric for Closest-to-the-Pin contest $20.00 Van Vanderburgh w/HTS for Closest-to-the-Pin contest $20.00
Total Balance to be Collected: $1,040.00
STARTING BALANCE DATE 9/1/2013
NEW BALANCE DATE 9/30/2013
Treasurer's Report Nick Schroeder
Financial Data:
Starting Balance (9/1/13): 6,892.43$
Deposits:
9/11 - Square Direct Deposit (CC Luncheon Dues Payment) 122.94$
9/17 - Eventbrite Direct Deposit (Luncheon Dues) 175.00$
9/19 - Eventbrite Direct Deposit (Luncheon Dues) 225.00$
9/30 - Dues from Society (7/15) 560.00$
9/30 - Dues from Society (8/15) 840.00$
9/30 - Dues from Society (9/19) 665.00$
9/30 - Eventbrite Check (Luncheon Dues, 8/26) 425.00$
9/30 - Check from Climatec LLC - ASHRAE Research? 500.00$
9/30 - September Luncheon Check Payments 275.00$
9/30 - September Luncheon Cash Payments 250.00$
9/30 - Check from Clif Upham - ASHRAE Research 100.00$
Subtotal: 4,137.94$
Payments:
9/19/2013 - Check #5367 to Dan Merkel for PO Box Reimbursement 96.00$
9/23/2013 - Check #5368 to Marianna Vallejo for UTA Chapter Mtg Lunch 103.04$
9/30/2013 - Check #5369 to The Fort Worth Club for September Luncheon/Parking 1,807.43$
9/30/2013 - Check #5370 to Lynn W. Bryant, P.C. for 2012 Taxes Preparation 830.00$
Subtotal: 2,836.47$
New Balance as of 9/30/13: 8,193.90$
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October Student Activities Report – Ian Bost
We have had our first big event at UTA and collected 16 new membership forms and renewed the memberships of five existing student members. The UTA students had a table at the Engineering Welcome Event and this event helped the turnout at our first Chapter Meeting. Our chapter president (Richard Eiland) and the Vice President (Marianna Vallejo) are returning again this year. Richard lead the meeting and discussed the upcoming student chapter events. They also noted that there are two chapter positions available (Secretary and Treasurer), elections from these positions will be forthcoming. Joe Baierski (YEA Chair), Nick Schroeder (unofficial faculty adviser) and I attended this chapter meeting. Joe spoke about YEA and the industry from the perspective of a manufacturer’s representative. Nick spoke about the potential employment opportunities for engineering graduates. I spoke about my role as the Student Activities Chair for the Fort Worth Chapter and my involvement in other positions within ASHRAE. The chapter purchased pizza for the students and the meeting took the full hour that we had reserved the space for. The Student Activities Committee is developing a strategy for dispensing scholarships and would appreciate any input that you might have. We would like to give out at least two scholarships for the UTA student branch and two more for the TCU student branch. Our Student Activities Committee consists of the following people: Ian Bost – Chair Adam Henning ([email protected]) – TCU Student Branch Lead Tony Finch ([email protected]) – UTA Student Branch Lead Dan Merkel ([email protected]) – Grades K-12 Lead We are in the process of reporting our activities on the Chapter Facebook page, and we are also on the verge of revamping our current student activities webpage on our Chapter’s website. Please stay tuned for more information. We have entered our SA PAOE points thus far and were the first chapter in our region to reach par! Thanks, Ian Bost, P.E., LEED AP
ASHRAE Webcast – Save the Date
SAVE THE DATE
April 17, 2014 1:00pm - 4:00 pm EDT
FREE ASHRAE WEBCAST
Buildings in Balance: IEQ and Energy Efficiency
This FREE webcast will feature industry experts who will identify the link between energy efficiency and Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) through the integrated design process. Viewers will be able to recognize the importance of the four cornerstones of IEQ and how system selection can benefit both energy efficency and IEQ.
Visit www.ashrae.org/IEQWebcast for additonal information about the program, sponsorships, continuing education credits, speakers, and registration.
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2013 Fort Worth ASHRAE Fall Golf Classic – November 4th
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Spread the Word: 28 Scholarships Available from ASHRAE
You play a key role in shaping the next generation of engineers. Help your students invest in a degree that will lay the foundation for a sustainable career, spread the word about scholarships from ASHRAE!
ASHRAE has 28 scholarships available for the 2014–15 school year, from high school seniors entering college through senior undergraduate engineering students.
Seven Regional and University-Specific Scholarships—$3,000-$5,000 each Now Accepting Applications!
13 Undergraduate Engineering Scholarships—$3,000-$10,000 each Now Accepting Applications!
Four High School Senior Scholarships—$3,000 each
Four Engineering Technology Scholarships—$3,000 each
LEARN MORE!
“I am thankful to ASHRAE for their generosity and in giving me the
opportunity to pursue my academic goals. Having the finances to take care of
part of my educational expenses is an enormous relief and will allow me to
involve myself more fully in research now and in the future and perhaps
contribute towards the progress of the industry”
Mei Yung Wong, David C.J. Peters Scholarship, Oklahoma State University,
Mechanical Engineering
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Chapter Officers and Committee Chairs
OFFICERS
President Tony Finch 817-656-6076 [email protected]
President-Elect Jay Sullivan 817-805-0020 [email protected]
Secretary Clif Upham 214-483-5000 [email protected]
Treasurer Nick Schroeder 817-272-9075 [email protected]
Governor Larry Akers 817-336-0543 [email protected]
Governor Tony Finch 817-656-6076 [email protected]
Governor Dan Merkel 414-807-0204 [email protected]
Governor Jay Sullivan 817-805-0020 [email protected]
Governor Clif Upham 214-483-5000 [email protected]
Governor Cody Pace 817-338-1277 [email protected]
Governor Ian Bost 817-272-9075 [email protected]
COMMITTEE CHAIRS
Audit Phil Farco 817-267-8651 [email protected]
Chapter Technology Transfer Travis Brunkenhoefer 817-793-2325 [email protected]
Historian Saul Martinez 682-521-6981 [email protected]
Honors and Awards Larry Akers 817-336-0543 [email protected]
Newsletter Jay Sullivan 817-805-0020 [email protected]
Membership Keith Woodlee 817-416-2881 [email protected]
Refrigeration Dennis Bohn 682-429-3647 [email protected]
Research Promotion Dan Merkel 414-807-0204 [email protected]
CRC Patty Parrish 817-791-3227 [email protected]
Student Activities Ian Bost 817-272-9075 [email protected]
Golf David Muzzy 817-257-4928 [email protected]
Special Events Sean Rath 817-338-1277 [email protected]
Webmaster Cody Pace 817-338-1277 [email protected]
YEA Joe Baierski
TEGA/Grassroots Ross Fields 817-522-8407 [email protected]
PR/Outreach Mark Harris 817-626-0033 [email protected]
Sustainability Connie Staudt 972-243-6884 [email protected]
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