Thursday, August 12, 2004
LEED™ Green Building Design
and the Mechanical Engineer

A one day seminar sponsored by the
ASHRAE Region III Chapters Regional Conference
in conjunction with
The Delaware Valley Green Building Council

8:00 am to 4:00 pm

Location:
The Hyatt Regency Hotel – Penns Landing
201 South Columbus Blvd.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Objective
As state and local governments adopt LEED™ principles, the engineering community must be aware of the requirements of the program. Working with the architects, their charge will be to provide integrated strategies resulting in highly efficient, green building designs. This seminar will provide both general and specific information, which will be invaluable to the building design community.

Who should attend
Architects, Engineers, Building Owners, Code Officials, Building Managers, Contractors, Students, and other parties involved with construction, renovation, and operation of facilities.

Seminar Schedule
8:00 am – Registration

8:30 am – Opening remarks

8:45 to 9:45 am – Session #1
Mechanical Engineers and the
LEED™ Green Building Rating System
Robert Diemer, P.E., Partner, AKF Engineers, LLP

The United States Green Building Council’s LEED™ Green Building Rating System is the standard for Green Design. The standard promotes the design of "Green" buildings through an integrated design process.

Mechanical engineers play a major role in at least 4 prerequisites and 20 points in the LEED™ rating system. Rob Diemer will provide a brief overview of LEED™ and discuss the prerequisites and credits that are related to a project’s mechanical systems. He will also discuss the role of the mechanical engineer on an integrated design team.

Robert Diemer, PE is a partner in the Philadelphia office of AKF Engineers, LLP, a 200 person mechanical and electrical engineering consulting firm. He is a LEED™ Accredited Professional and serves on the Board of Directors of the Delaware Valley Green Building Council. He is the chair for the DVGBC Educational Programs committee and has lectured extensively on sustainable design and LEED™. Mr. Diemer has over 23 years of experience in the design of building mechanical systems. He has a Bachelor of Architectural Engineering degree from Penn State University and is a licensed engineer in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

10:00 am – 12:00 pm - Session #2
Energy Efficient Architecture &
High Performance HVAC Systems
Paul Stoller, Associate Director, Atelier Ten

The rapid increase in interest in Green Design has greatly increased expectations of improvements in building energy efficiency. Often engineers alone are charged with this task, and they have largely approached these challenges by adopting a new generation of high-efficiency HVAC components like chilled beams for space cooling, enthalpy recovery wheels for energy recovery, geothermal wells for more efficient heat rejection, earth ducts for outdoor air preconditioning and architecturally-integrated low-energy strategies like displacement ventilation, chilled slabs, and thermal storage. Despite the efficiencies these systems bring, without optimization of the architecture in which such high performance systems are installed, "green" buildings are unable to achieve their full potential in energy reductions. High performance systems in fundamentally inefficient architectural designs results in limited energy reductions at significant cost.

A new generation of architects and engineers, designing together from the earliest project stages, are reestablishing architecture as the primary component in the climate control systems of buildings. These highly integrated building designs achieve energy efficiencies an order of magnitude better than conventionally conceived designs. In a selection of case study projects, this talk will examine how both advanced architecture and advanced building systems can be successfully integrated to achieve high thermal comfort while significantly reducing building energy use.

Paul Stoller is an Associate Director in the New York office of Atelier Ten. Having worked previously in Atelier Ten’s London office, he brings the technical experience of numerous international high performance building projects to his practice in the US. Mr. Stoller currently teaches core courses in environmental design and building services at the Yale University School of Architecture and is a frequent speaker on environmental design. Paul is a LEED™ Accredited Professional and holds a B.S. and M.A. in architectural history from the University of Wisconsin and an M. Arch. from Yale University.

1:15 pm – 2:30 pm - Session #3
Sustainable Laboratory Design to Achieve Safe and Energy Efficient Laboratory Environments
Thomas C. Smith, President,
Exposure Control Technology, Inc.

A key to sustainable laboratory design is laboratory hood exhaust systems that protect the health and safety of laboratory personnel while delivering optimum performance and energy efficiency. However, experience has demonstrated that the ability to provide adequate protection and efficient operation depends on numerous factors associated with hood design, laboratory design, design and operation of the ventilation system and use of proper work practices. In addition, laboratory hood systems are expensive to install, operate and maintain. Implementation of a comprehensive laboratory ventilation management program can improve safety and minimize energy use by ensuring proper design, installation, operation, maintenance and use of laboratory hood systems. This presentation describes the factors affecting hood performance and the sustainable benefits of implementing a laboratory ventilation management program.

Thomas C. Smith is the President of Exposure Control Technologies, Inc. (ECT, 231-C East Johnson St, Cary, NC 27513; 919-319-4290, tcsmith@labhoodpro.com). Mr. Smith specializes in helping facilities achieve safe, dependable and energy efficient operation of laboratory ventilation systems. He holds a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina State University and a MS degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of North Carolina. Since 1985, Mr. Smith has participated in hundreds of laboratory ventilation projects and evaluated thousands of laboratory hood systems. He is a member of technical standards committees for ANSI/ASHRAE 110, ANSI/AIHA Z9.5, and ASHRAE TC9.10 and serves as a technical consultant to numerous companies, universities, and government agencies.

2:45 pm – 4:00pm - Session #4
Green Guidelines for Healthcare Construction
Robin Guenther, AIA, Principal, Guenther5 Architects

How do we build high performance healing environments? Robin Guenther, AIA, will examine where the healthcare industry is in making hospitals healthier for the patient, staff and community through operations, design, and construction. She will discuss the opportunities for greening healthcare and what is on the regulatory horizon.

Ms. Guenther will define "Green Healthcare", discuss both the new Green Guidelines for Healthcare Construction, the first metric tool for measuring health care’s environmental performance and the future USGBC LEED healthcare application guide, and provide an in-depth look at the status of green healthcare projects and system wide initiatives in the U.S.

Robin Guenther, AIA, Principal, Guenther 5 Architects, a 20 person New York City firm with extensive experience in the design and planning of health care facilities. Her projects have received national design awards, including the first ever ASHE Vista Sustainable Health Care Design award, and have been published in Metropolis, Interior Design, Interiors, Contract, and Interiors & Sources. She serves on thee 2006 AIA Guidelines for Healthcare Construction Revision Committee, specifically dealing with "green building" and "therapeutic environment" considerations. She also served on the Steering Committee of the Green Guidelines for Healthcare Construction, sponsored by the American Society for Healthcare Engineering, and is now on the LEED® for Healthcare Application Guide Core Committee. She speaks extensively on the subject of "Green Healthcare".

DVGBC programming made possible by our sustaining sponsors – The Homasote Co., Liberty Property Trust, 7group and Re:Source Americas.

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For additional information:
Contact Mark Hershman

Register:
Please fill in the attached form and send along with your payment to
Ms. Cris Mayer
c/o Hightec HVAC
1700 Street Road
Southampton, PA 18966

Cost:
The cost for the program is $100.00 including:
• Lunch
• Break refreshments
• Eligibility for AIA Learning Units
If continuing education credits are desired, a nominal $10 charge will be charged separately to Non-AIA members by the Philadelphia Chapter of AIA to issue a Certificate of Attendance. This will be processed the day of the Seminar.

Host organizations:
Delaware Valley Green Building Council and
ASHRAE Region III Chapters

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