ENGINEERING TRACK – Room 4

  9:00am

Optimizing Performance of Heating and Cooling Systems
Features and selection of high performance systems; effective maintenance programs

Alan Ash:  He is an active member of ASHRAE, US Green Building Council, ABC, and NTAEE.  Alan served as the 2010 Chairman of the Dallas Regional Chamber’s Sustainability Technologies Committee. He is also certified in Building Automation System software including Trace Energy Analysis. B.S. Engineering Science.
Shawn Burch:  16 years in the chemical water treatment field, sales, service and consultation. Past experiences- field services, formulation scientist, technical services, sales and management in HVAC water treatment accounts from industrial services to property management. Focus is on performance, coupled with energy and equipment savings. This includes water management and environmental concerns. Biology & Chemistry B.S. and M.S.  LEED AP

10:15am

Creating Better Measures for Better Buildings
Benchmarking high performance, whole building energy simulation, and optimizing energy performance

Michael Sweeney:  Michael Sweeney is a registered professional engineer who is passionate about bringing energy conscious and financially optimized building solutions to reality for his clients. A LEED Accredited Professional and Professional Engineer, Michael has over 19 years of experience in building energy consulting, building systems design, and in developing and marketing web-based building energy information systems.

11:30am

Luncheon – What Value Does Green Add?
                Gary Thomas

  1:00pm

Sustainable Solutions for Water Savings
How to Develop a Baseline Water Footprint, Identify Efficiency Opportunities, Prepare an Optimization Plan and Execute the Optimization Plan

Bob Holt:  Bob Holt is Corporate Account Executive with GE Water & Process Technologies.  Bob offers 32 years of water and wastewater treatment experience in developing, implementing and servicing sustainable integrated water treatment solutions. He has direct process application, design and service experience with multiple water treatment processes including conventional clarification, water softening, ultrafiltration, reverse osmosis, ion exchange demineralization, electrodyalysis reversal, deaeration, vacuum degasification, aerobic and anaerobic biological wastewater treatment; groundwater remediation and membrane bioreactors.

  2:15pm

Commissioning:  Big Savings for Big Buildings
Discussion of the needs, ideologies, methods, and significance of commissioning and re-commissioning of existing building systems

Doug Ekstrom:  Doug has 11+ years experience in MEP design, project management, construction administration, and commissioning.  He has served the last 3-1/2 years as Director of Commissioning and is currently the Director of Engineering for Purdy-McGuire’s Fort Worth office.  Doug received his B.S. in Architectural Engineering from Kansas State University.  He is a licensed engineer in TX and KS and is a Certified Commissioning Authority (CxA).

  3:30pm

Performance Management
Utilizing measurement and verification to optimize and monitor building performance

Charles Culp: Dr. Charles Culp is an Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture and an Associate Director of the Energy System Laboratory (ESL). At the ESL, he is responsible for the development and implementation of Continuous Commissioning® tools used to improve energy efficiency in hundreds of large buildings including higher education facilities, medical facilities, office buildings and airports. Dr. Culp has conducted sponsor-supported research in low energy use commercial and residential building design, software control algorithms, energy studies, low velocity air movement studies, air movement in ducts, measurement and verification technology, serious gaming technology, and energy codes.

He has had over thirty years of experience in the HVAC&R field, both in the private and public sectors. During his employment at Interand, Dr. Culp designed interactive video systems. At Honeywell, Dr. Culp was a Honeywell Fellow and designed and led the development on two major energy management and control system designs, Honeywell’s Delta 2500 and Delta 21. During his time at Emerson Electric, he was the Deputy Director of Emerson’s Advanced Material Center, the Director of Emerson’s Advanced Development Center, the Director of Engineering for Alco Controls, and the Director of Research for Fisher Controls.

Dr. Culp received a B.S. in Physics with highest honors from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, and a Ph.D. in Solid State Physics with an Electrical Engineering minor from Iowa State University. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Texas, has a LEED-AP certification from the US Green Building Council, and has a High Performance Building Design Professional certification from ASHRAE.

  4:30pm

Reception