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New Information Technologies for the On-Line Engineer

James A. Wise, Ph. D.

• Demonstrate how the “on-line” engineer of the 21st century can perform their job “aster, better cheaper” through the use of new information technologies available today.
• Accessing and retrieving Internet resources.
• Designing your own “Home Page” for the World Wide Web.
• Electronic collaboration with geographically distant co-workers.
• Preparing and presenting multi-media presentations.
• Using information visualization techniques to brose large text document bases.
• Automating document production from generalized knowledge representations in a computer.

Maxwell And The Second Law – The Importance Of Cross Training Engineers

William Coad, P.E.

• Explore the intimate relationships between the disciplines of mechanical and electrical engineering.
• Present a thesis demonstrating the need for integrating these disciplines in the design of energy systems.
• Review the lack of clear interface between mechanical and electrical engineering. Energy is energy – Electrical and mechanical are simply different forms.
• Economics and physics should drive the design, not the field of interest of the designer.
• How to survive in the design engineering business in a competitive and downscale economy. In the 21st century a new ethic will prevail.
• Case history example of the needs, the successes and the benefits of the integrating disciplines approach.
• Can we restructure academia?

Greening The Building And The Bottom Line: Increasing Profits and Productivity through Environmentally Response Design

William Browning

• Case studies of environmentally responsive buildings and real estate developments. Examples will include office buildings, industrial facilitates, schools, hotels, an residential sub-divisions.
• Documented dramatic gains in worker productivity as a result of greener buildings.
• First cost implications of implementing environmentally responsive measures.
• Systems integration versus the “50 stupid things” approach to green buildings.
• Market performance of green buildings.
• Performance-based architectural and engineering fees.
• Overcoming barriers to green buildings.
• New opportunities for engineers.

Underfloor Air Distribution – Design Concepts and Owner Benefits

Joseph Milam, P.E., CIAQP

• Compares underfloor air distribution systems to conventional overhead systems for a prototypical office building.
• The presentation analyzes several underfloor design considerations such as: equipment selections and layouts. Exterior zone system selection. Conference room system selection. Systems for building areas with no raised floor. Installation and operating cost savings. Savings due to improved ventilation efficiency, and improved occupant comfort and productivity.
• Underfloor air conditioning systems provides building owners and occupants with several major benefits: lower initial equipment and labor costs, reduced operating costs. HVAC and electrical system flexibility, reduced relocation costs, depreciation tax credits and less interest aid on pre-purchased components, indoor air quality, and improved employee occupant comfort and productivity.
  Savings in equipment, installation, and operating costs can be substantial. These savings can be small compared to the benefits gained from superior temperature control and ventilation efficiency.

Technology for A Sustainable Future

Dr. Thomas Houlihan

• On July 15, 1994, Vice President Al Gore released the report “Technology for a Sustainable Future.” The report was the result of a nine-month effort by the interagency group under the auspices of the new national Science and Technology Council.
  Consider current initiatives strategic directions and possible next steps taken by the Administration in ten policy areas in order to implement the environmental technology developments necessary to support a sustainable economy.
• Review the national outreach process is being accomplished to determine the public and industry inputs into the development of a national environmental technology strategy.
• Discuss the context to which the report was being developed. The structure of the government agencies that exist under NSTC to implement the forthcoming strategy and the new President’s Committee of advisors on Science and Technology that will contribute to the development and implementation of the national environmental strategy.

Integrated Technologies: Modular HVAC Systems For The Next Century

Thomas Hartman, P.E.

• New products are emerging that are focused on optimally integrating advanced technologies such that they function of each product is enormously increased while the cost is reduced.
• New products are being developed that will very soon provide vastly superior building comfort at lower cost. Provide individual lighting and comfort level adjustments capabilities even in open office areas. Offer self-setup; self-diagnostic, and self-restoration features.
• Discuss products which will return the industry to a plug-and-play environment for connecting equipment from different manufacturers, and create opportunities for large inter-building control and maintenance networks.
• Review the rapidly emerging low-cost technologies that are now being applied in our industry and see how their effect will be further enhanced by this new industry focus on product integration.
• Conclude by discussing what emerging technologies are for HVAC and lighting systems of the future.

Engineering And Interior Design Environmental Engineering for Hotels

William Webster

• Current integrated design ideas.
• Areas where operators would like to see further design development.
• The impact of technical installation of usage space and potential methods of minimizing.
• Overview of what is currently being considered and implemented within the industry to minimize environmental impact.
• Case studies of applied systems and technology within industry.

Case Studies Of Non-Domestic naturally Conditioning Buildings In Europe – Design And System Trends For The Future

C. Alan Short

• How and why corporate clients have commissioned naturally lit and naturally ventilated buildings in recent years.
• Setting standards for allowable variations in environmental comfort in the absence of established design guide.
• Development of the design concept and its testing by both computer and physical modeling to increasing levels of sophistication.
• Reconfiguration of type plan and sectional arrangements to promote natural light penetration and beneficial air movement.
  The views of fire and building control authorities.
• Capital cost and cost in use implications of reducing dependence on artificial conditioning.
• Recorded environmental performance and behavior of a number of built examples with some commentary from their occupants.

Towards Zero Complaints For Office Air Conditioning Making The Most Of Low Temperature Air

Robert T. Tamblyn, P.E.

• Examine 100% Outside Air with no additional energy or first cost.
• Workstation temperature and air movement control without additional first cost or energy.
• Low temperature air eliminates the need for reheat to maintain comfort in office buildings and is less expensive to install.
• Discuss low temperature air as a rule in the design and storage if it can be justified on its own merits.
• Review how the combination of low temperature air and 100% outside air can level the initial cost and add the long term benefit of top ventilation for building occupants.

Project Planning And Management For Success

Scott W. Braley, AIA

• Planning – the single most important project management activity.
• Making the transition from marketing to project start-up.
• Involving the planning in the negotiations.
• Actively planning and managing versus passive administrating integrating plan elements: budget, schedule, staffing, and quality.
• Developing projects plans as baseline project controls.
• Incorporating quality assurance/quality control in project plans.
• Ensuring client maintenance and contact.
• Communicating effectively throughout the project execution.
• Monitoring and controlling project performance and success. Preventing project problems.

Update On The Legal Ramification Of Indoor Air Pollution For Those Involved In The Design, Construction, And Management Of Commercial Buildings

Helen Zukin

• The legal impact of indoor air pollution
• Causes of indoor air pollution
• Potential liabilities
• Review the established legal precedents regarding the liability of designers, contractors, and installers of ventilation systems for commercial buildings.
• Overview of preventative measures that can be taken to reduce liability.

Advanced Engineering Integration And Magical Buildings

Amory B. Lovins

• New empirical evidence suggests that in diverse climates, sizes and forms, new commercial buildings using 5-10 times less energy than normal – large offices for example, with site energy uses of ~10-20 kBTU/ft²-y, including 2-4 kW℮h/ft²-y can provide superior comfort, amenity and productivity with significantly reduced capital cost. Savings only modestly smaller are often available on retrofit with attractive paybacks, especially if coordinated with HVAC renovations motivated by equipment age or by CFC concerns.
• Such results require meticulous whole-system design integration. They typically combine advanced shell improvements, (including tuned superwindows at down to U-0.8 center-of-glass and k℮>1.7), ~0.2 W/ft² plug loads ≤0.3W/ft² lighting systems, and innovative, chiefly passive or alternative, space conditioning systems. The required techniques are all demonstrated and commercially available.
• The key methodological issues include the opportunity to make big savings often cheaper than small savings, “tunneling through the cost barrier” by saving enough money to downsize, simplify or even eliminate mechanicals. Full counting of such benefits as saved maintenance cost, improved radiant comfort, eliminated perimeter zone heating, and saved plan area and plenum height is also vital for rigorous assessment of cost-effectiveness. Important institutional issues for the design professional also arise, notably re-integrating the design process and rewarding designers fir what they save, not for what they spend.

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