The 2019 CRC will be a Joint CRC with Region X and will occur August 18th, 2019 through August 21th, 2019 in San Diego, California. The CRC will occur at the Hilton San Diego Resort & Spa. This is a great opportunity to make this a family event! Save it on your calendar. More information is available at HERE.
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2018-2019 Black Hills Chapter
Greetings from the Region IX CRC! This year should be an interesting one. We will be trying a couple of new locations and our program list is mostly filled out. More information will be coming soon!
2018 ASHRAE Golf Tournament
ASHRAE Regional Dinner – 2018 Summer Meeting
The cost for Dinner is $25 per person (except college students, $10 each). Payment will collect at the restaurant.
Please email trenth@mp-int.com to RSVP for the dinner. There also will be a sign-up sheet on the board at registration.
Black Hills ASHRAE/API Golf
The annual Black Hills ASHRAE/API Golf Tournament will occur on July 19th at 10:00 AM (shotgun start this year) at the Elks Golf Course. More information to follow.
Region IX CRC
The Region IX CRC will be hosted by the South Dakota Chapter and will be August 2nd to the 5th in Sioux Falls, SD. Hotel and event information is available at www.sdashrae.org.
Chicago Regional Dinner
Information for the Regional Dinner at the 2018 Winter Meeting is below:
Location:
Giordano’s Famous Stuffed Pizza
223 West Jackson Bulevard
Chicago, IL 60606
When:
Sunday Night, January 21, 2018
7:30 pm to 10:00 pm
Cost:
$25 for members, $10 for Students
SAVE THE DATE
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ASHRAE LowDown Showdown Modeling Challenge Teams Recognized
For Release:
Aug. 24, 2016
Contact: Jodi Scott
Public Relations
678-539-1140
ASHRAE LowDown Showdown Modeling Challenge Teams Recognized
ATLANTA – Eight teams in the second annual ASHRAE Lowdown Showdown worked to find the right dose of designing and modeling to get a health care facility to net zero or below.
The ASHRAE and IBPSA-USA SimBuild 2016: Building Performance Modeling Conference took place Aug. 10-12 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Some 250 people attended the event, which featured more than 100 speakers presenting practical applications of tools, case studies and papers on simulation, research and a deeper dive into current technology.
Held in conjunction with the Conference was the 2016 ASHRAE LowDown Showdown modeling challenge with eight teams and some 80 team members. The teams used currently available software to create their models for the baseline building, a 50,000 square foot, three-story outpatient health care facility in Omaha, Neb.
“The LowDown Showdown challenged teams to take their models to net zero,” Dru Crawley, a member of the Conference Steering Committee, said. “This building was particularly challenging because of its 24-hour-a-day operation and plug loads. But the teams were tremendously creative, resourceful and committed to drawing upon their team members’ strengths to create realistic solutions to the challenge.”
A list of participants and a summary of their projects can be found at www.ashrae.org/simbuild2016#lowdown.
Each team was required to present their results at the Conference. Recognition awards were presented to
- Most Practical – Energy Derailment
- Most Creative – The EUI Evangelists
- Best Teamwork – Quest for Zero
- Most Innovative Workflow – Insane Energy Savers
- Best Energy Use – The DeeBees
Other participating teams were:
- The BEM Bang Theory
- Outpatient Zero
- Newbie Energizers
“The ASHRAE LowDown Showdown seeks to broaden the industry’s ability to engage architects, engineers, designers and energy modelers to create an effective workflow and an outstanding design,” Dennis Knight, Conference chair, said. “The teams demonstrated beyond a doubt that better build models can be created more efficiency when drawing upon the experience and creativity of the various professionals working together.”
The larger challenge for the Showdown is to communicate these experiences to the industry at large to others can learn and improve their professional development, he said. Each team was required to produce a results spreadsheet, a poster and a one-page narrative. These items are posted on the challenge’s Webpage along with the names of the team members.
In addition to the Lowdown Showdown, the Conference itself featured some 100 presentations, which are available in the on-demand Virtual Conference. To register for the Virtual Conference, visit https://www.ashrae.org/virtualconferences. The cost is $129, ASHRAE members ($179, non-members).
ASHRAE, founded in 1894, is a global society advancing human well-being through sustainable technology for the built environment. The Society and its more than 56,000 members worldwide focus on building systems, energy efficiency, indoor air quality, refrigeration and sustainability. Through research, standards writing, publishing, certification and continuing education, ASHRAE shapes tomorrow’s built environment today. More information can be found at www.ashrae.org/news.
IBPSA-USA is the United States regional affiliate of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA). The mission of IBPSA-USA is to advance and promote the science of building simulation in order to improve the design, construction, operation and maintenance of new and existing buildings in the United States.
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ASHRAE Certified
Dear ASHRAE Member,
Take advantage of current, low certification application fees through June 30. After staying the same for nine years, fees will increase beginning July 1. After you apply, you have three months to schedule and sit for your exam – so why wait?! Learn More.
Also, per a recently adopted policy, non-native English speakers are now eligible to receive an additional 30 minutes of testing time. When applying, if you are a non-native English speaker, simply choose this option on the application.
Looking forward to receiving your application!
Sincerely, Erin Dupree Certification Coordinator Tel: 678-539-1113