November Chapter Meeting – Research Promotion
The European Approach to Decrease Energy Consumption in Buildings & ASHRAE a Global Society for Building Technology: Past-Present-Future
Date: Monday November 9th, 2020
Time: 10:30 am – 12:20 pm
Where: Virtual Meeting via Zoom
REGISTER
EVENT SCHEDULE:
Monday, November 9th, 2020, 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
10:30am CDT – 10:35 Attendees get settled
10:35 – 10:40 Chapter Announcements and Speaker Introduction
10:40 – 11:30 Technical Session
11:30 – 11:40 Break
11:40 – 12:20pm CDT Main Session
Speaker: Bjarne W. Olesen, Ph.D.
Tech Session: The European Approach to Decrease Energy Consumption in Buildings
Main Session: ASHRAE a Global Society for Building Technology: Past-Present-Future
WHERE Virtual via Zoom
FEE FREE for ASHRAE St. Louis Members and $15.00 for Non-Members
DESCRIPTION
Tech Session
The European Approach to Decrease Energy Consumption in Buildings
According to the European Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) all buildings (residential, commercial, industrial etc.) must have an energy declaration based on the calculated energy performance of the building, including heating, ventilating, cooling and lighting systems. This energy declaration must refer to the primary energy or CO2 emissions. The directive also states that the energy performance calculation must take into account the indoor climate. This and other directives (increased use of renewable energy and energy labeling of energy consuming products) set the direction for energy performance of buildings and systems in Europe and they have been revised several times. Most recently a Smart-Ready-Index (SRI) is being developed to evaluate a building’s readiness to be integrated in a smart grid. To support the implementation of the directives in national building codes the European Organization for Standardization (CEN) has prepared a series of standards to cover the requirements for the indoor environment, energy performance calculations for buildings and systems, ways of expressing energy performance, inspection of heating-cooling-ventilation systems and conversion to primary energy. This talk presents the EPBD (Energy Performance of Buildings Directive) and other directives together with the related standards. The presentation will also show examples of activities in the US to increase energy efficiency and reduce energy use in buildings with focus on ASHRAE products and projects.
Main Session (30-40 minutes)
ASHRAE a Global Society for Building Technology: Past-Present-Future
This talk will be based on 40 years of membership of ASHRAE including more than 8 years in the leadership of the society (board, vice-president, president). ASHRAE is today a leading engineering society with more than 57.000 individual members worldwide. About 20 % of the membership reside outside USA and Canada. The global reach of the society has increased significantly over the reason years through more regions, more chapters, student branches etc. ASHRAE has increased its collaboration with other societies both in North-America and globally. The talk will present our efforts to help developing economies to provide better living conditions in a sustainable way. Especially our activities with UN environment will be highlighted. The talk will present a status of ASHRAE as a global society for HVAC&R and discuss future developments
SPEAKER
Bjarne W. Olesen, Ph.D.
Master’s degree in civil engineering, 1972. Ph.D., Laboratory of heating and Air Conditioning, Technical University of Denmark, 1975. In the period 1972-1990 Research scientist at the Laboratory of Heating and Air Conditioning. Part time affiliated as product manager at Brüel & Kjaer 1978-1992. Senior Research Scientist, College of Architecture, Virginia Tech. in the period 1992-1993. Since 1993 until January 2004 Head of Research & Development at UPONOR-VELTA, Germany. Since January 2004 full professor at the International Centre for Indoor Environment and Energy, Technical University of Denmark. Awarded the Ralph Nevins Award (1982), Distinguish Service Award (1997), Fellow Award (2001) and Exceptional Service Award (2006) from ASHRAE. Awarded the Medal of Honour from the German Engineering Society (VDI-TGA, 2005), International Honorary Member of SHASE (Society of Heating, Air-Conditioning and Sanitary Engineers of Japan) and Honorary member of AICARR (Italian Society for HVAC). ASHRAE president 2017-18.
Is active in several ASHRAE-CEN-ISO standard committees regarding indoor environment and energy performance of buildings and HVAC systems. Has published more than 450 papers including more than 90 in peer reviewed journals.
