|
“Modelling a Sustainable World”
by Lynn Bellenger, 2010-11 President American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers |
 |
Lynn G. Bellenger, P.E., Fellow ASHRAE, is a partner with Pathfinder Engineers and Architects LLP, Rochester, N.Y.
Bellenger is ASHRAE certified as a Building Energy Modeling Professional and a High Performance Building Design Professional.
Bellenger is the first female president in the Society’s 116 year history.
As ASHRAE’s president, Bellenger directs the Society’s Board of Directors and oversees the Executive Committee.
|
|
Her presidential theme, Modeling a Sustainable World, notes that in energy simulation, daylight analysis, CFD and BIM software, we have powerful modeling tools that enable us to create and refine our vision of a building – its appearance, systems, operation and performance. Those resources, used effectively in an integrated design process for new buildings and in analyzing retrofit opportunities in existing buildings, will help us guide building owners, architects, developers, and contractors in building orientation, shading, and shape and in selecting materials, windows, equipment, and systems that optimize building performance.
"Our biggest challenge is implementing integrated design in daily practice. The traditional approach where the architect designs the building shape, orientation, and envelope and then transmits the drawings to the mechanical and electrical engineers for their design is a silo approach that misses the rich opportunities for optimizing building performance through a collaborative approach from the beginning. It is going to require a real cultural shift in our industry to transform the design process, and it’s a shift that has to occur if we are going to reach our goal of net-zero-energy buildings."
She formerly served as president-elect, treasurer and vice president.
Bellenger is a recipient of the Exceptional Service Award, the Distinguished Service Award, two first-place ASHRAE Technology Awards and the Lincoln Bouillon Membership Award. She received a Bachelor of Science in mathematics from Principia College and a Master of Science in environmental science from Rutgers University.
ASHRAE, founded in 1894, is an international organization of some 50,000 persons. Its sole objective is to advance through research, standards writing, publishing and continuing education the arts and sciences of heating, ventilating, air conditioning and refrigeration (HVAC&R) to serve humanity and promote a sustainable world.
|
“Pollutant Transport Through Building Materials: Physical Analysis, Modeling and Practical Implications”
by Patrice Blondeau, University of La Rochelle, France |
 |
Dr. Patrice Blondeau is Associated Professor at LEPTIAB, University of La Rochelle since 1998. His research activities are focused on ventilation, indoor air quality and energy conservation in indoor settings, with particular emphasis on the modeling of contaminant transports indoors, VOC emissions from materials and characterization/modeling of air cleaning systems. He is author or co author of more than 40 papers in international journals, book chapters or communications in international conferences and advised 6 PhD thesis in the field of ventilation and indoor air quality. Patrice Blondeau is member of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality (ISIAQ) and a founding member of the French Society of IAQ (RSEIN). |
| |
“Intelligent buildings and integrated solutions ”
by Derek J. Clements-Croome, University of Reading, United Kingdom |
 |
Dr. Derek Clements-Croome is Professor of Construction Engineering. He is a Director and founder of MSc Intelligent Buildings Programme and Intelligent Buildings Research Group and Director of Research in the School of Construction Management and Engineering at the University of Reading.
The second edition of his book CREATING THE PRODUCTIVE WORLPLACE (Clements-Croome 2000) was published by Routledge in 2005. His book INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS (Clements-Croome 2004) became available in Chinese. He has a portfolio of many projects including sustainability, building facades, system reliability, building rating methodology and design quality (including ventilation) in schools and effects of this on students learning, all funded by EPSRC/DTI. He was Vice-President of CIBSE 2005--7 and chairs several committees including one on intelligent buildings that has over 2000 members from over 118 countries. He is a member of the College for Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and also has served on the Panel on the Dynamics of Ageing for the Economics and Social Sciences Research Council. He was President of National Conference of University Professors in UK. He is Editor of the peer reviewed journal INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS INTERNATIONAL published by Earthscan. |
| |
“Measured and Potential Benefits of Improving IEQ: what we know and yet to find?”
by William Fisk, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA |
 |
Dr. William J. Fisk is a Sr. Staff Scientist and Department Head of the Indoor Environment Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He has conducted research for 30 years at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on indoor environmental quality and energy efficiency. His current research focuses on technologies for ventilating and controlling indoor air quality, on the relationships of indoor environmental quality with health and performance, and on the economic consequences of indoor environmental quality. He serves on the Editorial Board for the journal Indoor Air, was elected to the International Academy of Indoor Air Sciences in 1999, and has served on National Academy of Sciences – Institute of Medicine committees on Asthma and IAQ and on Damp Buildings, Mold and Health. He has been active in the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers and is a Fellow of that organization. Mr. Fisk received MS and BS degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and the University of New Mexico, respectively. |
| |
“Densely Populated Urban Environment and its Impact on IEQ”
by Shinsuke Kato, Tokyo University, Japan |
 |
Dr. Shinsuke Kato is Professor and Director of the Center for Development of Instrumentation Technology in the Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Japan. He received his B.A, M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1975, 1977, and 1980, respectively. Dr. Kato’s principal technical interest areas are urban and building modeling for high density populated area, indoor airflow and temperature distributions, indoor smoke and fire control, thermal comfort, indoor air quality, air-conditioning, ventilation, and urban environmental and wind engineering. His experimental and computational fluid dynamics research in these areas is internationally recognized, and his publications have been recognized with 13 best paper awards. He served as a Member of the Board of Directors and is a Fellow Member of several scientific organizations in Japan, including the Architectural Institute of Japan, The Society of Heating, Air-Conditioning, and Sanitary Engineering of Japan, Japan Society of Computational Fluid Dynamics, and Japan Association for Wind Engineering. He is also member of The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), American Physical Society, and American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He is elected Fellow of ASHRAE since 2008. He is Editor, Environmental Engineering Field, Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, and a member of the Editorial Board of Veetech Journal of Ventilation Subscription and International Journal on Architectural Science. |
| |
“Balances and Challenges of Integrated Practice”
by Toshiko Mori, Toshiko Mori Architect, USA |
 |
Toshiko Mori is the Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design and was chair of the Department of Architecture from 2002 to 2008. She is principal of Toshiko Mori Architect, which she established in 1981 in New York City.
The work of Mori’s firm has been widely published and has received awards and prizes internationally. Mori designed the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems, a research center for a federation of more than two hundred institutes and corporations that promote energy efficiency and indoor environmental quality. The project is seeking LEED Platinum certification. |
Other current work includes public projects for New York City’s Department of Design and Construction and for the Department of Parks and Recreation, an institutional project for Brown University, a master plan for New York University, as well as residences in New York, Massachusetts, Taiwan and Mongolia.
Mori’s strong research-based approach to design has been commended in invitations to lectures and exhibitions around the world. She was recently selected to deliver a keynote address at the Indiana Building Green Symposium, sponsored by the USGBC.
In 2003 Mori was awarded the Cooper Union Inaugural John Hejduk Award. In 2005, she received the Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Medal of Honor from the AIA New York Chapter. Her design for the Syracuse Center of Excellence was awarded a 2008 Project Honor Award from the AIA New York Chapter and was featured in the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum’s National Design Triennial in 2006. Mori’s Eleanor and Wilson Greatbatch Pavilion, a visitor center for Frank Lloyd Wright’s Darwin D. Martin House, received a 2010 Honor Award from the AIA New York Chapter, and a 2009 Honor Award from the Buffalo/Western New York AIA. The project also won a 2009 award for Excellence in Structural Engineering from the Structural Engineers Association of Illinois.
Mori was a contributor to the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s book, Ecological Urbanism. She has edited a volume on material and fabrication research, Immaterial/Ultramaterial and a monograph of her work, Toshiko Mori Architect, was published by Monacelli Press. |
“Indoor Air Quality and Energy Efficiency: Getting to Netzero without Stinkin' up the Joint”
by Dr. Andrew K. Persily, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA |
 |
Dr. Andrew K. Persily is Leader of Indoor Air Quality and Ventilation Group, Building Environment Division, Building and Fire Research Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). He received his B.A. degree in Physics and Mathematics from Beloit College in 1976, his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University in 1979 and 1982, respectively.
Dr. Persily works on indoor air quality and ventilation in commercial and residential buildings. His work includes the development and application of measurement techniques to evaluate airflow and air quality characteristics in a variety of building types, including large, mechanically ventilated buildings and single-family dwellings. The evaluation procedures include tracer gas techniques for measuring air change rates and air distribution effectiveness, contaminant concentrations measurements, and envelope airtightness. He is also involved with the development and application of multi-zone airflow and contaminant dispersal models. |
|
Dr. Persily was a vice-president of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) from 2007 to 2009, and is past chair of ASHRAE SSPC 62.1, responsible for the revision of the ASHRAE Ventilation Standard 62. He is a past chair of ASTM Subcommittee E6.41 on Air Leakage and Ventilation Performance and past vice-chair of subcommittee D22.05 on Indoor Air Quality.
Dr. Persily's first two years at the National Bureau of Standards were as a National Research Council Postdoctoral Research Associate, working on air infiltration in homes and large buildings. He received the Department of Commerce Bronze Medal in December 1989 and Silver Medal in 2008, and was named Young Engineer of the Year by the D.C. Council of Engineering and Architectural Societies in 1990. He was named an ASTM Fellow in 2002 and an ASHRAE Fellow in 2004. |
“Energy and IAQ in Rural China: Measurements, Problems and Possible Solutions”
by Xudong Yang, Tsinghua University, China |
 |
Dr. Xudong Yang is presently the Chang-Jiang Professor and Deputy Director of the Institute of Built Environment and Equipment Engineering, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University. He received his B.S. (1988) and M.S. (1993) degrees in HVAC Engineering from Tsinghua University, and Ph.D. in Building Technology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1999). From 1999 to 2005 he was a faculty member and director of the Building Environmental Systems Laboratory at the University of Miami and received tenure in 2005. He currently serves as founding Editor-in-Chief for Building Simulation: An International Journal and associate editor for Building and Environment. |
| Dr. Yang’s areas of expertise include building energy systems, indoor air pollutant sources and control technologies, and building simulation. He has led or participated in more than 30 projects on energy efficiency in commercial and residential buildings, advanced building technologies, building energy simulation, and indoor environmental control. Recently he is conducting comprehensive studies about the energy efficiency situation and indoor environmental quality of China’s rural buildings, and providing a list of improvement suggestions to the Chinese government. Relevant research results have been covered by Chinese Central Television and the Nature journal. Dr. Yang received numerous awards including the Research Career Award from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, 2000), the New Investigator Award from ASHRAE (2000), the Advance in Science and Technology award from the Chinese Ministry of Education (2000), the Chang-Jiang endowed professorship, Ministry of Education and Lee Foundation (2005), and the ASHRAE Distinguished Service Award (2008). He has published over 100 papers in international journals and conferences. |
|
