2000 Global Engineering Conference, Beverly Hills, CA
9 T HG L O B A L  E N G I N E E R I N G  C O N F E R E N C E2 0 0 0Making Good Buildings Better…Going Beyond Code.
In our industry, meeting code is the entry fee just to be in business. If you want to succeed, you had better be prepared to go beyond it. In today’s market, we need to be thinking “outside” the box and “inside” the minds of increasingly savvy customers.

Join us at this year’s Global Engineering Conference. We have assembled some of the best, more forward-thinking experts in our industry. They will share a host of useful and useable ideas to keep you business on top of the latest technologies and ahead of the competition.

From the general presentation to the hands-on workshops, the Global Engineeering Conference 2000 will help us all to continue defining the standards of the next thousand years.

Better Buildings: Intellectual exercise or Imperative?
Valentine A. Lehr, P.E.
  • The urgency of building better buildings.
  • Demographics: the motivating force driving change. How population shifts will affect the buildings we design.
  • How longer human life spans impact buildings.
  • Why environmentally-responsive sustainable design is more than just altruistic in our quest for better buildings.
    • Achieving the better building:
    • Codes and the regulatory process.
    • The impact of new materials on our buildings.
    • The building process and business in our electronic age.
    • Buildings that lasts and really work.
  • Better buildings: a challenge worthy of the professions and a means for redefining its importance.
Increasing Building and Workplace Performance
Richard D. Baier
  • Technology, telecommunications and the commercial real estate industry.
  • What you customers are saying about technology.
  • System integration and interoperability: what is really means for the building and facility industry.
High Performance Buildings: Whizbang Technologies for the First Century
Mark Ginberg
  • The effect of buildings on the economy and environment
  • Opportunities to improve building performance
  • The accelerating pace of technology introductions.
  • Promising strategies and tools.
  • Guidelines for the effective use of technology.
Harnessing the Internet for High Performance Building
David A. Gottfried
  • Being aware of the opportunities to improve building performance through energy efficiency, IAQ, materials and performance assurance.
  • Understanding how “high performance” can reduce a building’s first cost and operating cost.
  • The Internet as a major factor. It can:
    • Host documents
    • Manage communication between the design team, owner, contractor and tenants.
    • Mange bids.
    • Provide comprehensive product information
    • Facilitate product procurement
  • The next wave of construction via the Internet
  • The benefits of understanding the Web, the consequences of being left behind.
Paint Your House Green (Differentiating Playa Vista)
Kenneth W. Agid
  • Infill housing.
  • Integrated/mixed-use/variety of housing.
  • Wetland restoration and preservation.
  • Recycle/reuse.
  • Green building.
  • Walkable community.
  • Sustainable/technology partnerships.
Principles and Applications of Underfloor AC Systems
Michael R. Brown, CPEng.
  • Requirements on the new millennium:
    • System selection re: thermal comfort, IAQ, flexibility and adaptability, serviceability, energy conservation, and churn costs.
  • Turbulent flow and displacement air distribution systems.
  • Case studies offering different requirements.
Positioning For the New Economy
Paul Doherty
  • Internet technologies are changing the process of how projects are procured. Come to the intersection where Silicon Valley meets our industry.
  • Learn what companies are doing to position themselves for profit in the dynamic and quickly changing environment of the new economy.
  • Expose the new framework, rules and tools to enable you to survive in today’s fast-paced economy.
  • Explore case studies, emerging tools and the Internet companies that are impacting our businesses.
Beyond Code in Schools
Louis A. Guzzi, P.E.
  • Reviewing available systems and costs.
    • Packaged individual systems.
    • Hot water/chilled water.
    • Central heat pump.
    • Air systems.
  • Understanding and meeting code compliances:
    • NFPA.
    • IAQ (actual).
  • Knowing building constraints.
  • Being sensitive to the surrounding environment (location).
  • The importance of maintenance.
  • Construction realities and staying on schedule.
  • Whose responsibility is it, anyway (i.e. liability?)
Building Code Update: Meeting and Exceeding National Codes and Standards
Jeff Johnson
  • The role of building codes and voluntary guidelines (beyond code)
  • National code updates – ASHRAE and IECC
  • State code updates.
  • Activities going beyond code.
High – Performance Buildings: How High Is Up To You!
Dr. Malcom Lewis, P.E.
  • The level of performance is an important choice.
  • How performance effects occupant well-being and building economy.
  • The huge leverage of performance ROI.
  • A summary of technology issues impacting building performance:
    • Design.
    • Economic
    • Marketing.
Beyond Code in Office Building Projects
James E. Madget, P.E.
  • What owners want in building MEP systems.
  • Building code:
    • Where did they come from and why are they needed?
    • Codes vs. standards and guides.
    • Who sets the quality?
    • Interpretation and the danger to design.
    • ASHRAE influence on codes.
    • Energy Star
    • Is code minimum enough?
  • The office building of the future:
    • The need for “adaptive reuse” in building design considerations.
    • Design criteria and alternative systems.
    • Modular design.
    • Green buildings.
    • The balance between innovation and carelessness.
    • Learning from the past.
    • System types (current trends).
EMCS and Real-Time Monitoring Tools to Assure Building Performance
Mary Ann Piette
  • Why continuous measurement is important:
    • Problems with current systems.
    • Building design and operations processes.
    • Common and best practices.
  • Savings from commissioning and tune-ups?
  • Where are the opportunities?
    • Emerging data collection and analysis tools.
    • Automated diagnostics
    • Building Life-Cycle Information Systems (BLISS)
Beyond the Code: Protecting Hospital Occupants From Indoor Air Hazards
Andy Streifel, MPH, REHS
  • Hospital ventilation is a crucial component in protecting hospital occupants from airborne hazards.
  • The control of airborne-spread infectious diseases in the health care environment essential for patient and employee safety.
  • Engineering and operational control measures requires understanding “state-of-the-art” requirements. These verifiable parameters are necessary for safe environment.
A Commitment to Commissioning Is A Commitment to Quality
Ron Wilkinson, P.E.
  • Commissioning – An Overview:
    • Quality assurance for buildings.
    • Why owners do it.
    • Why contractors and designers like it
    • How much does it cost?
  • A pictorial quiz about quality:
    • What’s wrong with this picture?
    • You be the commissioning authority.
  • Selling or buying – what it takes to commission:
    • Hiring the right people.
    • Managing the Cx project
    • Getting the right training.
    • National organizations
    • Resources for further information.
  • You be the CA:
    • Teaming up to build your own Cx plan
    • Round-table discussion – making Cx work for you.

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