ASHRAE Insights

The April 16 ASHRAE satellite broadcast and webcast, Integrated Building Design: Bringing the Pieces Together to Unleash the Power of Teamwork, will focus on whole-building integrated design. Integrated building design is a collaborative planning and design process.

The broadcast program, sponsored by ASHRAE’s Chapter Technology Transfer Committee, will take place from 1–4 p.m. EDT.

“This broadcast explains what you and other members of the building team must do to advance high performance buildings with improved design, construction and operations processes,” said Bill Williams, chair of the CTTC Satellite Broadcast Ad Hoc Committee. “Buildings that meet the needs of occupants and truly achieve sustainability objectives can only be created if the building community shares its knowledge and experiences.”

Kent Peterson, P.E., ASHRAE President, will introduce the program. The panel of experts and their presentation topics are:
 • Walter Grondzik, Architectural Engineer and Professor in the Department of Architecture, Ball State University, Muncie, Ind.—“What is Integrated Building Design?”
• Charles Gulledge III, P.E., ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer, Senior Mechanical Engineer, AC Corporation, Greensboro, N.C.—“The Integrated Design Process.”
• Drury B. Crawley, Technology Development Manager, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, D.C.—“Achieving Net-Zero Energy Buildings Through Integrated Building Design?”
• Paul Torcellini, Team Leader for Commercial Buildings Research, National Renewal Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colo.—“Bringing the Pieces Together—Actual Applications.”

Online registration opens March 1 for satellite broadcast site coordinators and webcast participants at www.ashrae.org/IBDbroadcast. Registration for satellite downlink viewers will begin March 15. There is no fee for registration.

If you have questions, you may contact ashrae-satellitebroadcast@ashrae.org or call 678-539-1139.