ASHRAE Orange Empire - September 2021 Chapter Meeting

The ASHRAE Orange Empire Chapter would like to welcome you to join us for the First 2021 Chapter Meeting of the year this September 30th (Thursday). This months meeting will be at The Phoenix Club in Anaheim. See below for details on the schedule and the presentation that you won't want to miss!

Meeting Schedule: 5:30-6:30 - Social 6:30-7:30 - Registration/ Meeting Start 7:30-8:30 - Dinner Presentation

Dinner Presentation "The Feasibility of Natural Ventilation"

Presented by
Erin McConahey PE, ASHRAE Fellow, LEED AP, HDBP
Principal, Arup Fellow

Presentation Summary: This session will describe the process of early phase analysis that a design team can do to test whether natural ventilation is a feasible comfort-conditioning system for a given climate and building configuration. The speaker will build on her "Natural Ventilation Top 10 Feasibility Questions" from an ASHRAE Journal article to cover compliance with ASHRAE Standards 55 and 62.1 and a discussion of the impact of climate change.

Presenter Bio: Erin McConahey is a Principal in Mechanical Engineering with Arup, an employee-owned global engineering, advisory and planning consulting firm. During her 26 years with Arup, she has worked internationally and now leads multidisciplinary design teams in Los Angeles on a wide variety of project types.

Erin’s passion for finding integrated design solutions through a collaborative design process began with a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Master’s degree in Structural Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. As she rose in leadership within her firm, she served on Arup’s global Trustee Board, was named an Arup Fellow for her technical excellence, spearheaded the Americas Region Diversity and Inclusion Initiative, and served on the leadership teams for a number of training programs. These service opportunities, coupled with growing concern over climate change, led her to a second Master’s degree in Ethical Leadership from Claremont Lincoln University.

Erin is a Professional Engineer in California and Colorado, a LEED accredited professional (BD+C specialty), an ASHRAE accredited High Performance Building Design Professional, and a Fellow of the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-conditioning Engineers. She is co-author of the ASHRAE Natural Ventilation Design Guide and writes semi-annually for the Engineer’s Notebook column in ASHRAE Journal. In the latter capacity, she has emphasized the link between mechanical engineers’ “skills for this decade” to the wider global trends around the carbon economy, healthy materials, and sustainable development.

TICKET COST: $45/50 Member/Non-Member

Meeting Schedule

5:30 - 6:30 – Technical Presentation

6:30 - 7:30 - Meeting Start - Awards, Presentation, Dinner

7:30 - 8:30 - Dinner Presentation

Technical Presentation " The Devil's in the Details - a CEU presentation on what to look out for when installing boiler and water heaters”

Presented by
Bob Woods
Raypak

BIO: Bob graduated from Nasson College, Idaho State University and did his doctorate at the University of Rhode Island. He started in the industry in 1986, has been an ASHRAE member for 24 years and has served as President for two ASHRAEChapters, So Cal and Orange Empire. Bob is currently serving as the Chapter Treasurer for the Orange County ASPE Chapter. He has been specializing in boiler application, steam and combustion technology since 1995. Bob currently works for Raypak as a Consultant as well as a District Manager.

Dinner Presentation "Balanced Energy"

Presented by
Ken Chawkins
Southern California Gas Company

BIO: Ken is currently the Business/Policy Manager for Southern California Gas Company. He is responsible for developing key, broad-based relationships with business, government and non-profit stakeholders to provide balanced input to policy priorities and direction. Ken has over 20 years of experience in the energy/utility industry and has worked in both policy and operational capacities. Additionally, he has worked as a non-profit manager and a university administrator.

Ken has participated on many local non-profit boards and commissions, most of which focus on Municipal Governance, Youth, and/or public education. He is currently a Board member of Coro Southern California, Legacy Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation Executive Committee, Sustain SoCal and the Environmental Leadership Institute. He holds a BA in Political Science from UCLA, a MA in Public Policy from Claremont and is a graduate of the Coro Fellows Program in Public Affairs. He currently lives in Pasadena with his wife, Dr. Lan Nguyen-Chawkins and has two college-aged daughters, Dania and Emma.