High Comfort, Low Impact Climate Engineering

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Save the Date: "High Comfort, Low Impact Climate Engineering"

Erik Olsen, PE, Managing Director, Transsolar Inc.
Thursday, September 24; 12:00 - 1:00 pm

Climate engineering seeks to improve the built environment’s impact on the environment while maintaining the highest indoor and outdoor comfort. Mr. Olsen will illustrate how climate engineering involves collaboration with the entire design team from the beginning of the design process, with idea generation based on fundamental physical principles. This generates a solution in which local conditions, form, material, and mechanical systems are integrated components of a complete climate system. Computer-based thermal, fluid, and daylight modeling play in integral role in developing, validating, and refining the overall climate concept.

This presentation will review:
• Climate responsive design techniques
• How a physics-based design approach enables architecturally integrated climate systems
• How climate-responsive techniques can both influence and inform architectural design

Erik is a mechanical engineer and expert in integration of architectural and low-energy indoor comfort
solutions. As a Director of Transsolar Climate Engineering’s New York office he works collaboratively with clients, architects, and other engineers worldwide to develop and validate lowenergy, architecturally integrated indoor climate and energy concepts. In addition to his specialist work at Transsolar, he has worked as a consulting mechanical engineer on a wide variety of building types and launched and directed the City of Chicago’s Green Permit Program.

 

Location: The Center for Architecture, 1218 Arch Street, Philadelphia PA 19107

Time: 12:00 – 1:00pm (Bring Your Own Lunch)

Cost: $5 for AIA/DVGBC members, and $10 for Non-Members

Registration is Required: http://www.aiaphiladelphia.org/events/event.cfm?id=1411

Contact Brian Smiley at: bsmiley@ballinger-ae.com with questions
Special thanks to our event sponsor: Transsolar
This program is worth
1 AIA/CES LUs (HSW/SD)

Visit the AIA Philadelphia website www.aiaphiladelphia.org and the DVGBC website www.dvgbc.org for more
information about this and other upcoming events.