Sustainable Lighting Design Forum

INTEGRATED DESIGN LAB | PUGET SOUND

University of Washington

College for Architecture and Urban Planning

DATE: February 6, 2008

RE: Educational Presentation

TITLE:
IES Puget Sound Presents:
Sustainable Lighting
-Navigating LEED with Light

TOPIC AREA: Daylighting, Electric Lighting, Integrated Design, LEED®

SPONSORING ORGANIZATION: IES Puget Sound

PRESENTERS: Chris Meek, Edward Bartholomew

PRESENTERS BIO: (see attached)

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
This presentation will look at how daylight and electric lighting, can be used to achieve credits for LEED® projects. Lighting intersects the LEED® CI rating system through the credit categories of: Sustainable Sites, Energy & Atmosphere, Materials & Resources, Indoor Environmental Quality, and Innovation & Design Process. Participants will learn the concepts behind lighting relevant credits, ways to calculate compliance, and strategies to achieve these credits.

TARGET AUDIENCE: Engineers, Architects, Lighting Designers, Manufacturer Representatives, Facilities Managers

TEACHING FORMAT: Two Person PowerPoint presentation and discussion

WHEN: Thursday, February 28 at 12pm to 1pm.

COST: $20 per person, lunch is included

RSVP: Edward Bartholomew via email
or call (206) 616-0512, limit 70 attendees

LOCATION: Seattle, Lighting Design Lab (400 E. Pine St., Seattle, WA. 98122)

PARTNER ORGANIZATION/AFFILIATION: USGBC, ASHRAE, iDL

ASHRAE Offers Advanced Design Guides for FREE Download!

ASHRAE is pushing the envelope of sustainable design. And, in keeping with that push, they are now offering their series of Advanced Design Guides for a free electronic download!

This is a great offer for anyone in our industry--these design guides are a must add to any designer's library.



The ASHRAE Press Release:

ATLANTA – To encourage energy efficient design in a range of building types, ASHRAE and its partnering organizations are making available for free the Advanced Energy Design Guide series.

Electronic versions of the newest book in the series, Advanced Energy Design Guides for K-12 School Buildings, as well as the existing guides on small office and small retail buildings are available for free download at www.ashrae.org/freeaedg. Future guides, including one focused on warehouses to be published this spring, will be available for free electronic download as well.

“Energy efficiency is still a vast and underutilized energy resource that is essential to the long-term survival of our world,” says ASHRAE President Kent Peterson. “Buildings consume approximately 40 percent of the primary energy in the United States. As part of our energy efficiency market deployment strategy, we want to get this valuable building guidance into the marketplace and into the hands of owners, contractors and design teams. The technology is available today to construct substantially more efficient buildings. Free distribution of the Advanced Energy Design Guide series will help educate the marketplace on how to build energy efficient buildings that use significantly less energy than those built to the minimum code requirements.

“The Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA) supports the electronic distribution of the Advanced Energy Design Guide series to ensure widespread availability of these voluntary recommendations,” said Rita Harrold, IESNA member of the AEDG Steering Committee. “Offering these important Guides for free download to a large audience of users will help further the partnering organizations’ efforts to create a more secure energy future.”

In addition, the K-12 guide was sent to nearly 14,000 school systems around the country to assist with the design of energy-efficient schools that create safe and comfortable environments conducive to learning.

Partnering organizations include the American Institute of Architects, the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, the U.S. Green Building Council and the U.S. Department of Energy.

“Addressing energy use in our buildings is one of the most important measures we can take in our efforts to protect the health of our environment,” said Brendan Owens, vice president of LEED Technical Development, U.S. Green Building Council. “The Advanced Energy Design Guide series are critical publications for the building industry. Every percentage point reduction in buildings’ energy use brings us that much closer to our goal of mitigating climate change.”

"The importance for all design and construction professionals to move toward carbon neutral, sustainable buildings is of paramount importance to the American Institute of Architects," said Christine McEntee, executive vice president and CEO of the AIA. "The Advanced Energy Design Guides are an approachable, important tool to help achieve that goal."

The guides provide a sensible, hands-on approach to design through use of products that are practical and commercially available as “off-the-shelf” technology. They offer designers and contractors the tools needed for achieving a 30% energy savings compared to buildings that meet the minimum energy efficiency requirements of Standard 90.1-1999.

Hard copies of all of the guides are available for purchase. For more information, visit www.ashrae.org/freeaedg.

To order, contact ASHRAE Customer Service at 1-800-527-4723 (United States and Canada) or 404-636-8400 (worldwide), fax 404-321-5478, or visit at www.ashrae.org/bookstore.

History of February Social Events

Puget Sound Chapter’s February social event was started in 1970 with the first-ever chapter Valentine’s Party. The event was held at the Sea-First Bank Building with entertainment provided by the Seattle Sea-Chordsmen, members of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, Inc. (SPEBSQSA). A Punch List article was quick to note this organization had a name longer than ASHRAE!

The Seattle Sea-Chordmsen provided entertainment at the first two February social events in 1970 and 1971.

Chapter “Sweethearts Night” February 1973

The second Valentine’s Party (1972) provided an encore performance by the Sea-Chordsmen. In 1973 musical entertainment was provided by the Sweet Adelines, a nationally known ladies chorus. In 1974, KOMO-TV newscaster Rod Chandler presented his film A Journey to Changing Russia.

Many socials in the 70s and 80s simply consisted of cocktails, dinner, and dancing. However, notable guest speakers included Jean Enersen, KING-TV 11 PM news co-anchor (1976) and University of Washington professor Angelo Pellegrini (1979) who spoke on “Wine in American Life”. It was noted in the Punch List that Dr. Pellegrini was one of the first to urge Americans to accept wine as the appropriate dinner beverage (thus making him an appropriate speaker for the ASHRAE dinner event).

February socials have also consisted of tours including Ste. Michelle Winery (1985), Seattle Aquarium (1988), and the Museum of Flight (1993). Other social events have included a dinner cruise on The Spirit of Puget Sound at Pier 70 (1991, 92). Mystery Café “Set Your Dial to Murder” (1995), and the Spirit of Washington Dinner Train (1996).

In 2007, the chapter elected to use the annual social meeting time as a volunteer opportunity by helping the Mountains-to-Sound Greenway pot plants for future reforestation efforts. This was an extremely successful event with a large turnout of Puget Sound Chapter members and families. This new tradition will be continued in 2008 with a volunteer day at the Washington Park Arboretum, 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM, Saturday, February 23.

Jeff Sloan inspects the work of Chapter President Tim Burns at the 2007 Puget Sound Chapter February Social Volunteer Activity. A new tradition that will be repeated this year at the Washington Park Arboretum on February 23.

President's Message, February 2008

Busy.

In one word, that is what the lives of our chapter officers and members are like. Many of us have hardly touched down from our flights back from the NYC ASHRAE Society meeting and AHR show, and we are already working feverishly for upcoming chapter events.



Engineering Vision 2030 is really taking shape, and (as of this writing) it is only a few days before the official notification and registration goes live. We have been extremely fortunate in attracting some very prominent presenters and I expect that the attendees will greatly benefit from the sessions that will be provided. Stay tuned!

The chapter is working toward next year and several officers are making plans to attend the upcoming Region XI Chapters Regional Conference. This provides training for the officers of the chapter as well as provides a great opportunity for them to build relationships with their peers in other chapters and with the officers of Region XI and the national Society. This conference is a big part of what keeps our local chapter running smoothly and is critical to our success as a society.

And, of course, we are continuing our efforts in bringing our membership the most valuable programs we can. Recent highlights have been ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer Stanley Mumma's presentation on Dedicated Outdoor Air Systems and Chilled Beams at the January meeting as well as the TEGA energy code update meeting later that same month. Both were extremely well attended, and we feel that they brought our membership great value.

Looking forward, we have our annual volunteer day on February 23rd at Washington Park Arboretum, followed closely by a brown-bag with Society President Kent Peterson on February 27th. March is just chock-full of events with our Annual SMACNA/ASHRAE joint meeting on March 12, featuring inspirational speaker Ken Schmidt, and the Engineering Vision 2030 conference on March 26th and 27th. These programs are brought to you by the tireless efforts of our chapter officers and committee members and they deserve kudos for all that they are doing to make Puget Sound ASHRAE a vital part of our industry!

Online Directory for PS ASHRAE Members

Puget Sound ASHRAE Online Member Directory.

Here's how to access the directory: Click here.
You will be asked for an e-mail address and a password. If you have not used the directory before, you won't have a password, so click on the 'Forgot Password' link and enter your e-mail. Note that this should be the primary e-mail you have provided in your membership data at ASHRAE Society. Once you enter your e-mail and hit the 'send' button, you will soon receive an e-mail from Puget Sound ASHRAE with your personal password. Now you can log in using this e-mail and password. This service is provided to all Active Members who have paid their Chapter Dues. If you are currently not listed as a member in our database, you will be notified and asked to contact the membership chair to make sure our records are up to date.

Once you are signed in, you will have the option of updating your password, search the member database, or to view a printable list of all of the member data. Note that the printable list can be sorted by any of the fields listed simply by clicking on the heading of that column. If you wish to remove your name from the publicly displayed list, there is a check box available at the update password screen that will allow you to toggle your information between public and private.

Please take the time to verify your own personal data. All of the data listed is from the Society database--if you want to change your information, we request that you update it online at www.ashrae.org. We will update our local database periodically by downloading the most current data from Society.  This directory is for convenience of our local members only, the information will not affect any mailing preferences you may have registered with society.

We'd love to hear any comments or suggestions. Also please note that much of the ancillary information that we would provide in the old hardcopy directory is now available online, including code compliance contacts and local contractors, etc. These can be found by hitting the 'directory' link in the 'Topics' side bar on the right hand side of the screen. And more information will be added in the near future!

January Meetings of the 1970s

1970 – Boeing 747 Assembly Facilities
Bayne Lamb, Director of Facilities – Boeing 747 Division, provided an overview of Facilities Department operations at Everett over dinner at the plant cafeteria. Following the presentation, a factory tour was conducted during normal second shift operation. This was one of the highest attended chapter meetings in Puget Sound Chapter history, with more than 190 guests pre-registering for the event.

The meeting is touted as one of the chapter’s best in history, with attendance exceeding 190, in the February 1970 Punch List (left).

Chapter members dine at the Boeing Everett plant cafeteria (left) prior to Mr. Lamb's presentation and a plant tour during normal second shift operations.

1971 – Cancelled Due to Snow
Don Owens and Bill Erdelyi were scheduled to discuss performance and operations of the Seattle First National Bank Building on January 12, but inclement weather resulted in cancellation of the meeting. This was to be a preview of their upcoming presentation at the Advanced Air Conditioning Course underway at the University of Washington.

Punch List promotion of the January 1971 chapter meeting that didn't occur.

1972 – Community Colleges vs. Four-Year Degrees
In conjunction with Student Night, Rix Mallonee of Shoreline Community College spoke on “Technical Education for Our Industry”. Mallonee discussed the importance of “hands on” engineering, pointing out that community colleges teach their students what a bolt looks like, while the University of Washington no longer required drafting for an engineering degree, resulting in good engineers who do not know hardware. Mallonee stressed the importance of ASHRAE sponsorship for student chapters at community colleges.

This cartoon appeared in the January 1972 Punch List in anticipation of the lively conversation expected at the upcoming meeting.

1973 – Naval Surface Effect Ships
Joe Sublett of Aerojet-General Corporation spoke on surface effect ships and Aerojet’s two major contracts to develop a 100-ton rigid sidewall ship and a 150-ton amphibious air cushion vehicle.

Social hour at the 1973 chapter meeting

1974 – Draw-Thru vs. Blow-Thru Systems
James Tilbury of Mammoth Division, Lear Siegler Inc, presented an energy consumption analysis of Draw-Thru versus Blow-Thru multi-zone systems. According to the February 1974 Punch List, Mr. Tilbury, “armed with slides, graphs, and appropriate responses from John Proctor of Proctor Sales”, delivered a graphic presentation showing that while blow-thru units reduce first costs, draw-thru systems provide significant operational savings at part-load operation.

Excerpt from the February 1974 Punch List touting Tilbury’s dynamic presentation.

1975 – Threshold Limits of Exposure
Pete Preysse and Dick Hibbard from the University of Washington spoke on National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health exposure limits for 35,000 known toxic chemicals used in industrial processes. The presentation covered design standards for controls and monitoring devices, as well as Mr. Hibbard’s rationalization as to why he still smoked.

Pete Preysse discussed exposure limits for known toxic chemicals.

Dick Hibbard discussed design standards and rationalized his smoking habit.

1976 – Design Considerations for Alaska
J. Donal Krocker spoke on unique design considerations in the 49th state. For example, low solar angle and continuous solar heat gains during long summer days results in greater air conditioning needs in Anchorage and Juneau than Eureka, California. Mr. Krocker also discussed strategies for dealing with permafrost.

J. Donal Krocker emphasizes that Alaska is still the untamed land it was when Robert Service penned “The Cremation of Sam McGee”, and that although we’ve become more sophisticated, some projects are still shut down when winter sets in.

1977 – Economic Outlook for the Year
Edward McMillan, Sr. Vice President and Chief Economist of Rainier National Bank, discussed the economic outlook for 1977 with an emphasis on new construction. In summary, McMillan claimed “on balance, considering all factors, it’s pretty hard to interpret what we’re looking at as anything but a quite favorable outlook”.

Edward McMillian
Sr. Vice President and Chief Economist
Rainier National Bank

1978 – Variable Air Volume System Fan Control
Dick Querns of Cambridge Filter Corporation discussed flow measuring stations, extraction of control signals, and use of these signals to control fans in VAV systems. Querns also spoke on area pressurization control and constant volume control systems.

Dick Querns
Western District Sales Manager
Cambridge Filter Corporation

1979 – Reversible Reactions for Heat Storage
Dr. Eckart Schmidt of Rocket Research Co. discussed thermal energy storage and transmission systems for solar energy utilization, explosive stimulation of geothermal steam wells, and inflatable safety system “air” bags.

Members attend the January 1979 chapter meeting.

Building Science and Integrated Design

The cover story in November's HPAC magazine made a critical point about integrated design: In order to optimize building performance, HVAC designers need to take a more proactive role in the design of the building their systems are serving.

The author describes the traditional 'reactive' role of the HVAC designer, and advocates for a more active role in the design of what was traditionally left to the Architect. He provides a compelling example in the illustration of the effect of architectural detail on overall building component thermal performance.

A recent study focused on architects' building-envelope details and their impact on HVAC designers' heating- and cooling-load calculations. Four identically insulated and glazed building models were set up with R-19 wall insulation, but with variations in window frames, wall detailing, and wall construction. The models had the same window areas and center-of-glass thermal performance. The overall wall thermal resistance varied from a low of R-4.8 to R-12.6. (This included adding the R values of the glazing and frames to the wall thermal resistance to get an "overall" R value).

Thermal bridging caused by accepting cheaper/faster construction products and details can degrade wall and roof thermal transmission by more than 25 percent below insulation values. For example, R-20 wall insulation, coupled with poor thermal-bridging details, may provide an actual R-13 to R-14 thermal-transmission barrier.

But to be effective, the HVAC designer must, of course, understand the building science behind the way these components perform. The author suggest the use of free software modeling the effect of glazing details at windows.lbl.gov/software/therm/therm.html
or more basic education at www.arch.hku.hk/teaching/learn.htm and www.bestofbuildingscience.com.

ASHRAE members also should not overlook the excellent series "Building
Sciences" by Joseph W. Lstiburek, Ph.D., P. Eng. found in the ASHRAE Journal (membership required for access). Dr. Lstiburek brings humor and insight to a subject over which mastery is demanded by today's energy performance goals.