| | 3-4 hours | A Designer's Introduction to Commercial Desiccant Systems Desiccant systems for dehumidification in commercial buildings have been upgraded to increase reliability and reduce costs. These new systems are described in this course, which also reviews the fundamentals of desiccant technology. In addition, students learn about equipment performance from computer modeling and practical, field-based perspectives, how to calculate moisture loads, how to select the proper instrumentation and controls, and how to commission and maintain equipment. | | 3-4 hours | An Introduction to BACnet® ASHRAE's BACnet® has been an ANSI standard since 1995 and has been widely adopted both in the U.S. and internationally. This standard has changed the way that designers, engineers and building owners/operators can use and apply building systems, and opened a new world of opportunities for multi-vendor and multi-discipline interoperability and integration. In this course, students learn the fundamental principles of BACnet® as these relate to interoperability. The course helps students understand some of the elements required to successfully plan for BACnet® and some of the complex issues that must be addressed to achieve interoperability. Students learn that interoperability covers a wide range of possible options, and how to simplify interoperability by defining specific areas where interoperability is required. Also discussed are the basic components of any multi-vendor or multi-discipline BACnet® control system, how different systems can be merged together using BACnet®, and how BACnet® facilitates the integration of older systems with BACnet®-based systems. The course does not discuss specific manufacturers, or alternatives to BACnet® or BACnet® specification writing. Attendees receive a discount toward the purchase of Standard 135-2004 - BACnet® - A Data Communication Protocol for Building Automation and Control Networks (ANSI Approved). | | 3-4 hours | CFD for ASHRAE Applications: Basics, Issues and Guidelines Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is the process by which a computer is encouraged to establish a digital "solution" to the Navier-Stokes equations describing mass, momentum and energy transport, including turbulence phenomena. The course content introduces the attendees to all essential elements of CFD, leading to the computer implementation. Developed concepts are illustrated by examples specifically chosen as highly pertinent to ASHRAE applications. These highlight key issues regarding accuracy, quality and utility, leading to requirements identification for large scale CFD computations in the characterization of indoor air motion. | | 3-4 hours | Commercial Heat Pump Water Heaters Technology and Applications - Beginning with an overview of heat pump water heater (HPWH) system technology, this seminar focuses on identifying applications, designing and sizing systems and evaluating system performance. Course attendees learn how to insure a quality HPWH system through design, specification, installation and commissioning procedures. Case studies are presented to explore practical experiences and situations. While heat pump water heaters are available for a variety of applications, this course addresses commercial applications using primarily air-source equipment. | | 3-4 hours | Compliance with Standard 90.1-2001 HVAC/Mechanical This course presents the mechanical requirements from ASHRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1-2001. Design professionals, code officials and building owners benefit from this course, which presents the HVAC requirements and methods of compliance. Attendees receive a discount toward the purchase of Standard 90.1-2001- Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings and the 90.1-2001 User’s Manual. | | 3-4 hours | Compliance with Standard 90.1-2004 HVAC/Mechanical This course presents the mechanical requirements from ASHRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1-2004- Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings. Design professionals, code officials and building owners benefit from this course, which presents the HVAC requirements and methods of compliance. Attendees receive a discount toward the purchase of Standard 90.1-2004 - Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings and the 90.1-2004 User’s Manual. | | 3-4 hours | Complying with Requirements of Standard 62.1-2004 ASHRAE Standard 62.1-2004 Ventilation for Acceptable Indoor Air Quality contains many changes from previous versions. The new standard incorporates more than 15 recent addenda. The methodology for calculating ventilation rates for buildings is fundamentally changed for the first time in fifteen years. The standard also contains new requirements for building components and building systems. This course gives an overview of the requirements of the new standard with emphasis on the new requirements. Practice in use of an available spreadsheet is included as a closing exercise. Attendees receive a discount for the ASHRAE Standard 62.1-2004 – Ventilation for Acceptable Indoor Air Quality. | | 3-4 hours | Cooling and Heating Load Calculation Fundamentals This course presents the fundamentals of the heat balance procedure for determining cooling and heating loads and how it was codified into a load calculation procedure. Students learn about heat transfer processes, formulation of the heat balance method and are introduced to the related Radiant Time Series method. The software included with the ASHRAE text, Cooling and Heating Load Calculation Fundamentals, is used by the instructor to demonstrate the procedure for a variety of practical situations. | | 3-4 hours | Cost Effective Commercial and Industrial Solar Applications This course is designed to introduce the HVAC community (including engineers, architects, building owners and managers) to sustainable design principles and provide the background knowledge necessary to evaluate and implement cost-effective solar applications for commercial and industrial (C&I) facilities. The purpose of the course is to provide the participants with the knowledge and skills required for the development, evaluation, procurement, and installation of commercial and industrial solar projects. The technical focus of this course is on cost-effective solar water heating and photovoltaic applications for C&I facilities. However, a wide variety of solar applications, including site-built process water and air heating, is discussed. The course objective is to enable the participants to economically evaluate, procure and monitor the design and installation of a wide variety of cost-effective solar applications. | | 3-4 hours | Deregulation: Utility Industry Restructuring for Professionals Because of deregulation, the electric utility industry is being restructured in the way utilities are organized, the way power is purchased and who provides utility services. This course reviews the drivers behind deregulation and explains the different approaches that are being taken. Price trends are reviewed along with new ways that utility services will be packaged and sold, and how to buy these services are discussed. Finally, the effects of deregulation on how buildings are designed and operated are discussed. | | 3-4 hours | Design of Commercial Ground-Source Heat Pumps This course provides a detailed overview of the design issues relevant to commercial and institutional ground-source heat pump systems, including ground-coupled systems and ground water source systems. Students learn about the different types of systems and their advantages and disadvantages, as well as building loads, zoning and equipment selection. Attendees also learn about site characterization, heat exchangers, piping, pumping, water-related issues, ventilation air requirements, cost containment and hybrid ground-coupled heat pumps. | | 3-4 hours | Designing Residential Ventilation Systems to Meet ASHRAE Standard 62.2 This course provides an overview of fundamental ventilation and IAQ principles as applicable to low-rise residential buildings, including such topics as infiltration, natural ventilation, mechanical ventilation, and source control. It also includes a detailed description of the requirements of ASHRAE Standard 62.2-2003- Ventilation and Acceptable Indoor Air Quality in Low-Rise Residential Buildings. Additionally, several whole building ventilation examples are presented in depth, with different system types in different U.S. climates. Local exhaust design examples include intermittent and continuous situations for kitchens and bathrooms. | | 3-4 hours | Determining Energy Savings from Performance Contracting Projects Measurement and Verification - This course provides an overview of measurement and verification (M&V) procedures and methods for determining savings from energy efficiency projects. The course starts with an overview of performance contracting and proceeds into discussion of M&V basics, M&V Guidelines (including ASHRAE's Guideline 14), M&V Options, planning procedures, and M&V issues. Case studies are presented to illustrate concept and issues associated with M&V, including a lighting project, VSD projects and chiller projects. | | 3-4 hours | Engine-Driven Chillers: Installation, Maintenance, Service and Operating Costs Engine-driven chillers, fueled by natural gas, are an alternative to standard electric equipment for buildings in areas with high electric rates. This equipment can be utilized in both stand-alone central cooling plants and in hybrid configurations as a base load machine or peak shaver to reduce electric demand charges. In this course, you learn the basics of engine-driven chillers including standard product design, features and benefits, equipment performance, installation and maintenance requirements, operating economics and application issues. | | 3-4 hours | Evaluating and Designing Exhaust Systems to Avoid Fume Reentry This course provides general information regarding the need for good exhaust system design and discusses issues that should be considered when designing exhaust stacks and intakes such as applicable standards, analytical methods, plume rise, architectural screens, hidden/visible intakes, and entrained air exhaust stacks. The course provides a general understanding of air flow around buildings, qualitative information to judge whether stack designs are acceptable, information to help develop health and odor concentration design criteria, and knowledge about how concentration levels due to building exhausts are estimated at air intakes and other sensitive locations. This course provides the attendee information so they can spot potential air quality problems at a facility and know what methods are available to assess and solve noted problems. Attendees also develop basic skills in performing simple calculations of the air quality impact at air intakes. | | 3-4 hours | Fundamentals of Panel Heating and Cooling This course covers fundamentals of panel heating and cooling. Performance, design, applications, limitations, and installation for systems is presented. The architectural/mechanical/human interface is discussed within the principals behind ASHRAE Comfort Standard 55-2004-Thermal Environmental Conditions for Human Occupancy and Indoor Air Quality Standard 62- Ventilation and Acceptable Indoor Air Quality in Low-Rise Residential Buildings. Attendees of this course receive a discount toward the purchase of Standard 55-2004-Thermal Environmental Conditions for Human Occupancy and Indoor Air Quality Standard 62- Ventilation and Acceptable Indoor Air Quality in Low-Rise Residential Buildings. | | 3-4 hours | Humidity Control I - Basic Principles, Loads and Equipment In commercial buildings, excess humidity and moisture problems have caused difficulties with mold, mildew and uncomfortable conditions for occupants. This course, based on ASHRAE’s new Humidity Control Design Guide, helps the designer achieve true control of humidity rather than just its moderation. The course covers how to remove moisture loads with equipment dedicated to that purpose alone, rather than relying on the occasional dehumidification effect of a building’s cooling system. Attendees learn what equipment is used for this purpose, how it works and how to apply it quickly, economically and reliably. Attendees receive a discount toward the purchase of the Humidity Control Design Guide. | | 3-4 hours | Humidity Control II - Applications, Control Levels and Mold Avoidance For those who need to go beyond the basics of humidity control, this course provides the next step. Based on ASHRAE’s best-selling Humidity Control Design Guide, the material includes an in-depth discussion of moisture load calculations and how humidity control can be added to HVAC designs for seven different types of commercial buildings. The course also covers the effects of different humidity levels on thermal comfort, corrosion, mold growth and airborne microorganisms-information which helps the owner and designer define the humidity control level that will be optimal for each application. If you need to understand the effects of humidity control as well as how to accomplish it, this course puts you on the fast track to such understanding. Attendees receive a discount toward the purchase of the Humidity Control Design Guide. | | 3-4 hours | HVAC System Selection To ensure successful HVAC system operation, designers must first define what the system is to accomplish, evaluate alternative ways to meet that goal, and then select the appropriate system. They should then document the basis of design and the reasons behind the system selections. These steps form the core of this course, which describes the factors to be considered in the HVAC system selection process. Specifically, students learn system selection criteria, selection goals, constraints on system options, and various systems including all-air systems, air-and-water systems and unitary systems. Students also learn what information to include in system selection reports. | | 3-4 hours | Introduction to Green Buildings and Sustainable Construction This course presents the basic principles related to sustainable construction and green buildings. Included in the course is a review of the integrated approach to buildings and systems necessary to achieve green/sustainable buildings, developments, and projects. Key elements for success in achieving green projects will be covered, including the requirements of a popular national green rating system in the U.S. The course details what is green and what motivates green projects in today's market, and includes a review of case studies from a wide array of green building projects. These include a residential development, dormitory, supermarket, warehouse, and office buildings. | | 3-4 hours | Introduction to Project Management This course helps the new or potential project manager understand the responsibilities and rewards of engineering project management, and provides information that help start the new project manager off on the right foot in his or her new responsibilities. Unlike other, more generic project management courses, this course is taught by engineers for engineers to meet the needs of engineering project managers. This course covers the following topics: defining project management, consequences of poor project management, benefits and rewards of good project management, the importance of project planning, and understanding contracts. | | 3-4 hours | Introduction to Thermal Energy Storage Systems for Air Conditioning This course demonstrates how thermal energy storage can cost-effectively address the issues of the phase-out of chlorofluorocarbon-based (CFC) refrigerants, and continued utility deregulations coupled with growing uncertainty in energy pricing. Attendees learn why systems incorporating chilled water storage or ice storage (sometimes combined with cold air distribution) are being installed today with lower first costs, lower operating costs, improved indoor air quality, enhanced occupant comfort and lowest environment impact when compared with non-storage systems. Attendees are encouraged to bring hand-held calculators and/or laptop computers for use during this course. Attendees receive a discount toward the purchase of Design Guide for Cool Thermal Storage, Cold Air Distribution System Design Guide, and Successful Cool Storage Projects: From Planning to Operation. | | 3-4 hours | Leadership Skills for Engineering Leaders-Situational Leadership® This course provides the engineering leader with proven leadership skills and competencies that will help him or her be more effective back on the job. Taught by an engineer who has led and managed more than 100 engineering projects, the course is based on proven, practical leadership skills that lead to success in an engineering environment. A confidential leadership style assessment is provided to each participant to help him or her apply the most effective leadership style in typical work situations. | | 3-4 hours | Life-Cycle Cost Analysis Life-cycle cost analysis provides building professionals with the tools needed to compare and choose the best economic alternative when evaluating project alternatives with different first-costs and long-term operating costs. This course describes life-cycle cost analysis methods, review discounting of cash flows, and discuss the effects of inflation and the use of supplemental economic indicators. The new Windows-based Building Life-Cycle Cost (BLCC-5) analysis software developed by the NIST is demonstrated. Other analysis tools are also discussed. | | 3-4 hours | MasterFormat™ 2004 and HVAC Specifications This course is produced by the Construction Specifications Institute and is the master list of numbers and titles classified by work results or construction practices that the construction industry relies on to organize project manuals, to organize detailed cost information, and to relate drawing notations to specification. This course explores the structure and numbering changes in MasterFormat™ from the 1995 to the 2004 version, show where HVAC-related specification content should be located, explore how customization can be applied, and discuss provisions for future standard updates and maintenance. | | 3-4 hours | Minimizing Liability in IAQ: Design, Construction and Operations Issues Two primary causes for indoor air quality (IAQ) problems are deficient design and construction of buildings as well as degradation of system performance during operations. As a result, designers, contractors and building owners and managers are being held accountable for the performance of buildings and their systems. This course describes the procedures to follow to minimize IAQ problems. Topics include: basic concepts of indoor environmental control, selecting design and evaluation criteria, determining thermal and contaminant loads,selecting equipment and control systems, and preparing documentation. | | 3-4 hours | Multi-Zone Network Airflow Modeling This course provides an overview of multizone network airflow modeling including: theory, applications and demonstration of CONTAMW - a public domain multizone airflow and contaminant transport software package. | | 3-4 hours | Performance Contracting: Measuring and Verifying Energy Savings This course provides an overview of energy efficiency performance contracting with an emphasis on measurement and verification (M&V) procedures and methods for determining energy savings. Topics include performance contracting history, advantages, and disadvantages; implementing performance contracts; and M&V options, methods and techniques. The course also includes two brief M&V case studies as well as information on ASHRAE's Energy Savings guideline 14-P. | 3-4 hours
| Seismic Restraint Design Building officials have increased the plan check requirements of permit documents for seismic restraints of non-structural components since the 1989 and 1994 earthquakes in California. This course simplifies current code requirements for building design applications for non-structural components. It also provides simple-to-use equations for typical rigid and resilient (spring) seismic restraints through procedural steps and provide details for building applications. This course trains the designers who produce the permit documents. | | 3-4 hours | Understanding and Designing Dedicated Outdoor Air Systems (DOAS) This course presents some of the issues that point toward separate dedicated outdoor air systems (DOAS) and away from delivering the ventilation via single all-air variable air volume systems. The course illustrates that once a shift in the design paradigm in favor of a separate DOAS has occurred, questions concerning the thermodynamic state of the delivered ventilation air arise. Some of the boundary conditions that impact the best state of the delivered ventilation air are addressed. | | 3-4 hours | Variable Air Volume Design for Acceptable Indoor Air Quality Variable air volume (VAV) systems are frequently applied instead of multizone, reheat, dual duct and conventional systems as a means to provide temperature control in numerous zones, while simultaneously conserving energy. However, VAV systems may not always provide adequate ventilation or air movement, thereby conflicting with acceptable indoor air quality (IAQ) practices. This course describes control techniques that enable VAV systems to maintain acceptable IAQ, including the practicality of commissioning and maintaining the systems. The course also presents a new model in system configuration to address the issues of efficiency, IAQ and maintainability. |
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