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Monday May 21st, 2007
Topic: Intelligent Buildings
Speakers: Art Bell, PE, Astorino
Ron Mann, RCDD, Astorino
Time: 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm – Reception
4:30 pm to 6:00 pm – Board Meeting (Officers and Committee Chairs Only)
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm – Dinner
7:00 pm to 8:00 pm – Program
Location: Louis Tambellini Restaurant
860 Saw Mill Run Boulevard
Pittsburgh, PA 15226
(412) 481-1118
Price: $25 ASHRAE Member & RSVP / $30 Non-member or Walk-in / $10 Students
RSVP: to Karen Boyle at kboylejdm@aol.com or 412-922-5300 (fax 412-922-0208)
More about the Topic:
This presentation is targeted toward building owners, engineers, facility operators, and contractors who realize that the traditional way of providing building automatic temperature control systems, fire alarm systems, telecommunication systems, data systems, security systems, and other intelligent building systems does not work in the current technology world and fast paced construction market. Technologies currently available for the built environment offer tremendous value opportunities that are many times unsuccessfully implemented. Typical design and procurement processes for mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) systems limit the designer’s ability to take advantage of available innovation and integration opportunities. Compressed design and construction time frames, restrictive construction budgets, and rapidly evolving system technology limit both the engineering and the traditional contractors’ abilities to perform and to properly construct and commission the systems.
The possibility of success on your projects can be significantly improved by implementing changes to the typical design and construction delivery system. The design will be structured to add a Systems Contractor (SC) to the construction delivery process to install all the intelligent building systems. The SC will be responsible for the installation of all low voltage, network driven systems (including structured cabling, network, building automation, telecommunication, data, security, fire alarm, etc.). Further, the SC will be responsible for the testing, adjusting, and balancing of all MEP systems and will provide and manage systems functional performance testing (commissioning). The many advantages to this approach include ensuring construction quality, efficiency, and performance. This approach also supports improved MEP systems construction quality by allowing the MEP contractors to focus on their core competency, such as installing equipment, ductwork, pipe, wire and conduit, without getting bogged down with networking and integration issues.
This proposed approach shifts the systems performance responsibility to the purveyors of the technology, giving them a stake in the success of the project, thereby helping to ensure overall project success while potentially reducing project cost. The more capable ATC vendors, IT vendors, and mechanical service contractors can successfully fulfill the SC contractor role.
Speaker Bios:
Mr. Bell has over 21 years of experience designing HVAC, plumbing, fire suppression, and automatic temperature control systems for hospital, commercial, institutional, laboratory, residential, educational, governmental, industrial, and high tech industrial buildings and facilities. His experience includes construction field engineering-mechanical systems, HVAC systems design and operation instruction, operations and maintenance-mechanical systems engineer and technician, contractor training coordination, 2600 ton chiller plant operator, 1050 horsepower, 350 OF heating water boiler plant operator, and mechanical systems startup engineer. Mr. Bell has also authored 2 HVAC technical manuals published by McGraw-Hill – HVAC Equations, Data, and Rules of Thumb and HVAC Design Portfolio, 865 Flow Diagrams and Details, Airside Systems. Mr. Bell is certified and registered in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a residential and commercial, mechanical, plumbing, and energy inspector and plans examiner and fire inspector.
Mr. Mann has over 20 years experience in communications technology strategic planning, design and implementation management. He has developed advanced technical skills in voice, local area networks, wide area networks and video technologies, and has successfully implemented multi-million dollar communications projects and premises equipment configurations. Mr. Mann provides cost-effective solutions, which include infrastructure design, network design, low voltage system design and implementation. Mr. Mann is BICSI-RCDD-certified and is a registered electrician in the City of Pittsburgh.
President’s Note:
Each month the Pittsburgh Chapter program seems to get better and better. It was no exception last month as a number of people made April one of the best programs of the year. First I would like to thank our hosts and tour guides Mr. Richard Boyles, Plant Superintendent, Mr. Steve Hrycko, Electrical Supervisor of NRG Thermal and Mr. Jim LaGuardia Facilities Manager of PNC Park for taking the time to show us around their respective facilities. Next I would like to thank board members Steve Alauzen and Mark Wolfgang for coordinating the two tours flawlessly. And finally, a special thank you Pennsylvania Trane for sponsoring the tour.
This month I hope you plan to join us at the final dinner meeting of the year for a special encore presentation of Mr. Bell and Mr. Mann’s ‘Intelligent Buildings’ which was first presented in August 2006 at the Pittsburgh CRC. For those of you that missed it the first time, this is a perfect time to catch up on this cutting edge approach. For those of you that were lucky enough to have seen it in August, see it again to hear lessons learned on the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh case study. This month’s meeting will also give you a chance to meet our Student Scholarship winner Ms. Jennifer Plyler of Grove City College, and it will also be your first opportunity to purchase the new 2007 ASHRAE Resource Guides.
Christopher L. Conroy
Chapter President
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