Please note that this month's chapter meeting is a hybrid in-person/ online meeting. Also, please note the location of the chapter meeting.

 Multifamily is one of the largest growing commercial building sectors.  For the past two years, ASHRAE, with AIA, USGBC, DOE and IES have been working on an Advanced Energy Design Guide for zero energy multifamily buildings.  This zero energy guide focuses on what is needed to achieve zero energy in multifamily buildings over four stories to achieve zero energy.  The session will focus on the EUI targets focusing on the selection and design of the HVAC systems.  It will also cover lighting, plug loads, and envelope design as it applies to the HVAC system to ensure that the multifamily can be built to the zero energy target.  How-to tips and practical advice will be presented as well as successful zero energy case studies.

About the Speaker:

Terry E. Townsend, P.E, Fellow ASHRAE - Townsend Engineering Inc., Chattanooga, TN and Panama City, FL 

In 2006-07, he served as president of ASHRAE, where he focused the Society’s efforts on The ASHRAE Promise: A Sustainable Future, highlighting ASHRAE’s work in sustainability in the building environment. His achievements as president include launching ASHRAE’s first ever certification program, with the initial certification offering for healthcare facility design professionals; accelerating and expanding the Advanced Energy Design Guide series, which includes 30% guides on small retail, small office buildings, K-12 school buildings, warehouses and self-storage units, highway lodging and small healthcare facilities; and 50% guides on medium-to-big-box retail, small-medium office buildings, K-12 school buildings and large hospitals; setting more stringent savings for ASHRAE’s energy standard. Additional activities included proving resources on how ASHRAE can minimize the impact of its meetings on the environment; and calling for development of the Society’s first water efficiency standard, ASHRAE/USGBC/ASPE/AWWA Standard 191P, Standard for the Efficient Use of Water in Building, Site and Mechanical Systems which provides baseline requirements for the design of buildings, site and mechanical systems and is currently under development by ASHRAE, the American Society of Plumbing Engineers (ASPE), the American Water Works Association (AWWA) and the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).

          After serving as Society president, Townsend chaired the Building Performance and Metrics Steering Committee that coordinated the activities of special projects, including the development of publications, tools and guidance on how to measure a building’s performance, how to improve, on an on-going basis, and sustain peak building performance.  Projects included two books, “Performance Measurement Protocols for Commercial Buildings” and “Performance Measurement Protocols for Commercial Buildings: Best Practices Guide;” oversight of a carbon emissions calculations tool being developed by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory; and support of the DASH: Database for Analyzing Sustainable and High Performance Buildings being developed by the Green Building Alliance.

To support the ASHRAE Building Energy Quotient (bEQ) program, Townsend developed a specialized training program that integrates commercial energy audit strategies with the bEQ program’s building performance management tools and technical retro-commissioning and on-going commissioning processes to produce commercial buildings that are energy efficient, healthy and comfortable. This training program has already been presented both nationally and internationally and has resulted in municipalities, state and provincial governments and college campuses adopting the training program’s roadmap toward achieving and maintaining targeted building performance goals.

          Currently Townsend is the Chair of ASHRAE’s Government Affairs Committee (GAC) that has Regional Vice Chairs serving ASHRAE Members, Government Officials (State, Regional and National) and Government Agencies in 137 countries. Townsend is also a member of ASHRAE’s Epidemic Task Force (ETF) and ASHRAE’s Task Force for Building Decarbonization (TFBD).

He is the recipient of an Exceptional Service Award and a Distinguished Service Award.