Chris Van Rite is the Executive Director of M&M Manufacturing Company. Research shows that flex ducts are just fine when properly installed…the problem is they are hardly ever installed properly…the biggest mistake is using too much material…can’t resist the coming pun….”yes, there can be too much of a good thing."
16 years ago Jim Larsen taught us the basics of window and glass performance. After 40 years in the glass business – you might have heard about his company…Cardinal Glass Industries… he will present “the rest of the story”….”how windows actually affect building performance”. Jim will present the results of a huge research project with Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It only took 500,000 computer runs and judgement from a few legends to refine our understanding. I view this body of work as “unprecedented” and I mean that in a good way.
Katrin Klingenberg is an architect with “heavy building science leanings” who has driven adoption of the Phius Standard over the past 20 years. She built the first passive house in the United States in 2003 in Champaign-Urbana and has helped develop and adopt passive building methodology since. This presentation will explore the history and impact of passive building design theory, technology and standards and their impact on building design and speculate what will drive the design and construction of the built environment over the next few decades.
Andre Desjarlais is the Program Manager for the Building Envelope and Materials Research Program at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and has been involved in building envelope and materials research for 50 years….yes…a half century…Michael Lubliner is a Senior Energy Advisor at ORNL and has been involved in building envelope research for a much shorter period of time…40 years. BSA is not a British motorcycle…it is a hands on simple...publicly available hygrothermal design tool. Andre and Michael will talk about how BSA can help us avoid “Wasted Away in Moisture Damage Ville”.
Marc Rosenbaum, P.E., received a BS and MS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is an engineer who has pushed the frontiers of high performance buildings. He is the Founder and Principal of Energysmiths and built his first superinsulated house in 1978. To say he is a legend is an understatement. His presentation points out that much of what we know about how buildings perform comes from measuring and monitoring….and the results are not always obvious.
Bill is back by popular demand. William Bahnfleth is a Professor of Architectural Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, is a Past President of ASHRAE and chaired the ASHRAE Epidemic Task Force. He now chairs both the ASHRAE Environmental Health Committee and the committee developing ASHRAE’s first standard for the control of infectious aerosols. Bill will give an overview of the standard and will also make a few remarks on the social/political context in which it was developed. To use a pun that I can’t resist…"it is a breath of fresh air from a distinguished group….