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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….

To get to zero energy conservation takes us most of the way…and the last bit is the renewables piece.  We get 70 percent of the way to “net zero” with conservation….  Guess what…we changed the building code to get us there.  Huh?  Yup, if you build new homes to comply with the 2021 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) you “officially '' comply with the Department of Energy “Zero Energy Ready Home Program (ZERH)”.  Okay, there are few other typical “government” things (see 

It is all about the connections…industry trends….we have seen them before…manufactured housing was supposed to win the game….the problem is having to move the box from the factory to the site…not cheap…not easy…  The boxes coming together is not easy….not efficient because you double up the surfaces…  How about panels?  We love panels…you don’t ship air.  How about robotics?  You really think we can replace judgement and experience with a robot?