The Feasibility of Natural Ventilation and Material Concerns in HVAC Equipment
October Chapter Meeting – Membership Promotion
FREE FOR NON MEMBERS!
Date: Monday October 11, 2021
Time: 10:45 am – 12:45 pm
Where: Virtual Meeting via Zoom
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Speaker: Erin McConahey
Tech Session: The Feasibility of Natural Ventilation
Main Session: Material Concerns in HVAC Equipment
FEE Free for ASHRAE St. Louis Members, Non-members and full time students!
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Speaker for Tech and Main Session: Erin McConahey
DESCRIPTION
Tech Session:
The Feasibility of Natural Ventilation
This session will describe process of early phase analysis that a design team can to test whether natural ventilation is a feasible comfort-conditioning system for a given climate and building configuration. The speaker will build on her “Natural Ventilation Top 10 Feasibility Questions” from an ASHRAE Journal article to cover compliance with ASHRAE Standards 55 and 62.1 and a discussion of the impact of climate change.
Main Session:
Material Concerns in HVAC Equipment
This session is an introduction to the areas in which HVAC equipment manufacturers and design engineers have influence on increasing the use of healthy materials in equipment. Topics areas include an introduction to the principles around the use of healthier materials, the key product or components where materials of concern are found in HVAC equipment, and the steps the industry can take to begin to convert the supply chain. This session expands on the speaker’s October 2020 ASHRAE Journal article on these topics.
SPEAKER
Erin McConahey is a Principal in Mechanical Engineering with Arup, an employee-owned global engineering, advisory and planning consulting firm. During her 26 years with Arup, she has worked internationally and now leads multidisciplinary design teams in Los Angeles on a wide variety of project types.
Erin’s passion for finding integrated design solutions through a collaborative design process began with a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Master’s degree in Structural Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. As she rose in leadership within her firm, she served on Arup’s global Trustee Board, was named an Arup Fellow for her technical excellence, spearheaded the Americas Region Diversity and Inclusion Initiative, and served on the leadership teams for a number of training programs. These service opportunities, coupled with growing concern over climate change, led her to a second Master’s degree in Ethical Leadership from Claremont Lincoln University.
Erin is a Professional Engineer in California and Colorado, a LEED accredited professional (BD+C specialty), an ASHRAE accredited High Performance Building Design Professional, and a Fellow of the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-conditioning Engineers. She is co-author of the ASHRAE Natural Ventilation Design Guide and writes semi-annually for the Engineer’s Notebook column in ASHRAE Journal. In the latter capacity, she has emphasized the link between mechanical engineers’ “skills for this decade” to the wider global trends around the carbon economy, healthy materials, and sustainable development.
