Clean Spaces
ASHRAE Technical Committee 9.11

 TC 9.11 Clean Spaces Committee Meeting Minutes – Las Vegas

0.0 Call to Order
Vince Sakraida/Vice Chair called the meeting to order.

TC9.11 Scope: TC 9.11 is concerned with air conditioning systems for cleanrooms and spaces, including process, product, and facility air conditioning and related process ventilation for Research and Development, manufacturing, assembly, test, and clean medical areas. This includes electronic, microelectronic, pharmaceutical, and aerospace facilities and operating rooms.

ASHRAE Code of Ethics Commitment
The ASHRAE Code of Ethics is to be adhered to by those doing ASHRAE business whether or not they are an ASHRAE member. “In this and all other ASHRAE meetings, we will act with honesty, fairness, courtesy, competence, integrity and respect for others, and we shall avoid all real or perceived conflicts of interests.” See full ASHRAE Code of Ethics: https://www.ashrae.org/about-ashrae/ashrae-code-ofethics 

1.0 Introduction of Attendees: (see full list attached at the end of minutes)
1.1 Roll Call of Voting Member
Vince Sakraida – TC 9.11 Vice Chairman presided at this meeting.
Vince led the introductions of all attendees. Attached is the list of all attendees and their membership
status.

VOTING MEMBERS FOR THIS MEETING (Need (4) or ½+1 for a Quorum)

1.2 George Wells – TC 9.11 Secretary led the Roll Call of Voting Members. Based on the official Roster, there were five confirmed voting members present (online or in person) and two were not able to attend. Vince Sakraida confirmed TC 9.11 had a Quorum.

2.0 Vince Sakraida shared that written minutes of the previous meeting are not available.

Brad Cochran – TC 9 Section Head informed the TC 9.11 of three new liaison positions that need to be made. ASHRAE has added additional Functional Groups requesting TC 9.11 liaison involvement, such as the Building Decarbonization Task Force. He also discussed the ASHRAE thrust to get more involvement from YEA members.

3.0 Sub-Committee Reports
3.1 Research:

RP-1604: Prior to the meeting, a letter ballot motion was made by the Chair and approved. The letter motion was read at the Meeting as follows: “TC 9.11 advises RAC to accept the PMS’ recommendation to terminate RP 1604 as incomplete immediately and require the PI to stop all testing and data
acquisition, compile all collected data to date and submit all data with a draft report to date to ASHRAE.“ The letter motion and approval was forward to RAC. 

A motion was made by the Research Subcommittee Chair to the TC and it was withdrawn.

A motion was made by the RAC liaison as follows: “TC 9.11 advises RAC to accept the PMS’ recommendation to terminate RP 1604 as immediately and require the PI to stop all testing and data acquisition. The PI shall compile all collected data to date and submit all data with a draft report before April 30, 2022 to the PMS for approval and then to TC 9.11 for approval“. This motion was approved 5-0-0.

RTAR’s: Proposed RTAR’s are as follows:

1. 1. Energy Benchmark Survey for Pharmaceutical Clean Spaces. RTAR had been previously approved by the TC but revisions to the RTAR will require a new TC vote.
2. 2. Study of Ventilation Effectiveness Indices of various Air Distribution strategies in Contamination Control & Energy Efficiency for Nonunidirectional Airflow Cleanrooms ». RTAR in draft stage, Yusuf B. is leading the RTAR development for this item. Final RTAR to be voted via email ballot.
   

3.2 Programs: Roland Charneux

Toronto Annual Conference Programs

Forum – How do we move design basis away from air change rate basis? Phil and Vince will finalize the Forum title with input from Conor Murray.
Phil volunteered to be the Forum Chairman.

Possible Seminar – Chris Muller informed Roland Charmeux and the TC, that he will get two or three speakers with presentation slides complete on or before the February 17, 2022 submission deadline.

3.3 Wei Sun – Handbook Sub-Committee Chairman: TC-approved edits are due by 7/12/2022.

3.4 Journal: No Report.

3.5 Web page: Sina YousefI has volunteered to be webmaster and is awaiting ASHRAE to do the roster change so he has webpage access. Sina and Russ have requested an early change.

There is a link on the web site https://www.ashrae.org/communities/committees/technical-committees to become a Corresponding Member.
3.6 Phil Naughton – Energy Efficiency Sub-Committee Chairman

Energy Efficiency Sub-Committee Virtual Meeting wasn’t held. A Virtual Energy Efficiency SubCommittee Meeting is scheduled to be on February 23, 2022 at 9:00AM.

4.0 Membership Status changes were discussed by Vince Sakraida.

George Wells was accepted as Secretary – Provisional Non Voting Member of TC 9.11.

The recommendation for TC 9.11, is for the Chair to use discernment and add more Voting Members to the ASHRAE TC 9.11 Roster.

5.0 Liaison Reports

5.1 ISO 14644 – Phil Naughton has been a US TAG Member to ISO TC 209. Phil informed the TC that he was stepping down from the position. Vincent Sakraida has said he will be interested in becoming new member to the US TAG, others are to let Russ Bailey know if they are interested.

5.2 IEST/ISO: No Report.

5.3 ISPE – Gary Shamshoian is Liaison and Gary and Conor Murray provided an update on ISPE activities ISPE is working on Energy Efficiency Concepts. This is an opportunity for ASHRAE TC 9.11 to join forces with ISPE in order to develop an optimal path forward.

5.4 CDC/NIOSH: No Report

5.5/6 TC 1.6 and 9.6 - R. Lautz Liaison wasn’t in attendance. No report.

5.8 TC 9.10 – No Liaison defined and no report.

5.14 NEBB – Vince Sakraida Liaison – No Report.

5.15 Epidemic Task Force - M. Amstadt/ V. Sakraida Liaisons – No new announcements to report. Task Force has completed most if not all open action items.

5.9 MTG ACR had a Forum this week. They are seeking co-funding opportunities. Phil Naughton is the Liaison and he gave an update on RP-1803, Literature Search on the Scientific Basis of ACR in Cleanrooms, Healthcare, Laboratories and Animal Laboratories. Phil also discussed new RTAR 1936 on Ventilation Effectiveness. RTAR 1936 was approved by Research Advisory Council (RAC). Phil agreed to author a Work Statement for this item. This RTAR is by MTG ACR and is not sponsored by TC 9.11.

5.11 TC 7.1 (Integrated Building Design) - Mitch Swann Liaison

5.12 TC 7.2 (HVAC&R Construction & Design Build Technologies) – Mitch Swann Liaison, Proposed study of the pros and cons of In-House Engineering versus External Hired Engineering Firm.

6.0 Old Business - None

7.0 New Business

7.1 YEA Membership – Vince Sakraida shared the ASHRAE drive to get more involvement from YEA members, and discussion followed.
8.0 Future Meetings

8.1 A Virtual Energy Efficiency Sub-Committee Meeting is scheduled to be on February 23, 2022 at 9:00 AM. – Phil Naughton

8.2 Toronto Meeting – June 25 through 29th - Vince Sakraida informed us of the plan to have the Main TC 9.11 Technical Committee Meeting on Monday, June 27, 2022. This will be in person and virtual starting at 2 :30 PM until 4 :30 PM.

Meeting was adjourned by Mr. Sakraida 

Annual Meeting Agenda

TC 9.11 Clean Spaces

ASHRAE Winter Meeting Minutes

Atlanta, Monday, January 14, 2019 3:00 – 4:00, Omni Grand Ballroom B

“Commitment to the ASHRAE Code of Ethics – In this and all other ASHRAE meetings, we will act with honesty, fairness, courtesy, competence, integrity and respect for others, and we shall avoid all real or perceived conflicts of interests. (See full Code of Ethics: https://www.ashrae.org/about-ashrae/ashrae-code-of-ethics.)”

Subcommittee Meetings

1. Call to Order:

• Chair Gary Shamshoian called the meeting to order at 3:00 PM.
• All committee meeting attendees were self-introduced.

2. Roll Call (Quorum):

• A roll call for voting members indicated 5 of 8 Voting Members present.

3. Minutes:

• The draft meeting minutes from the June 2018 TC 9.11 meeting were reviewed. Cesar Lim motioned for acceptance, Gary Shamshoian seconded. The minutes were approved unanimously.

4. Announcements - TC reorganization (proposed):

• A Technical Committee reorganization has been suggested by ASHRAE to reduce the amount of groups requesting conference meeting times from 200 down to 32 combined working groups.
• Some TCs would hold combined main meetings to foster better communication and collaborations.
• The liaison was in attendance to get the TC’s first impressions, which were against this proposal.
• A survey is being sent for individual responses, and Gary S will provide the TC 9.11 feedback.

5. Membership:

• Yusef Bhetasiwala and Russ Bailey were nominated and elected to move from Corresponding Members to Voting Members
• Sign up to be a Provisional Corresponding Member on ASHRAE TC Webpage.

6. Volunteers:

• Russ Bailey volunteered to be Secretary and was accepted.
• Jojo Castro volunteered to be Webmaster and was accepted.

7. Research Subcommittee Report:

• RTAR 1399: Vijay will clean up the Energy Efficiency for a re-vote by KC.
• RTAR 1604: A no cost time extension was requested, with the specific time extension TBD.

8. Design Guide:

• The Cleanroom Design Guide needs updates within 4 more years.
• The TC members feel that ASHRAE should collect feedback and contact data from buyers. A suggestion was to send questionnaires to purchasers. ACTION:  Gary S to follow up.

9. Liaison Reports:

• IEST: Nothing new.
• ISO 14644: (Phil Naughton) There is a testing update for residual charge on inactive HEPAs.
• ISPE: no liaison identified.  ACTION:  Gary S will take on this role.
• TC 9.6: (Roger Lautz) USP research project work statement was approved by MTG ACR.
• TC 7.1 and 7.2 (Mitch Swann)
  • IBD is moving to IPD focus.
  • BIM Guideline is coming soon.
  • D-B is increasing, especially for West Coast IT Cleanrooms.
  • ASHRAE does not currently have classes on Project Implementation, scheduling, bonding, etc. ASHRAE is putting together a track for future conferences.
• NEBB: Don Hill will be NEBB Liaison. 
• TC Commissioning: Mike Amstadt and Roger Lautz will be co-liaisons. 

10. New Business:

• Program Promotion: Our work should leverage off of existing research and writing efforts to create new Programs for upcoming conferences to attract new participants in our TC.
  • A seminar on Cleanroom Design Guide will be proposed by Phil, Wei, Vincent and Gary.
  • Future collaboration on commissioning with TC 7.9 was discussed.
  • Food service industry would be a good focus for Kansas City presentations.
  • Call to volunteer: Any relevant topic can be formed into a seminar, forum or paper.
• Base Camp: 11 needs a Basecamp site.  ACTION:  Mike Armstadt will pursue this.
• Short Course: No interest.  It was generally agreed to delete the short course.
• Kansas City and Orlando presentations are a focus. Ideas were put forth for presentations.
• Schedule: ACTION:  Gary S will move this meeting to 2:15 to 4pm on Monday to be adjacent to the Subcommittee meetings.

Adjournment:  Mike Amstadt motioned for adjournment, Wei Sun seconded.  Motion passed. 

Meeting adjourned at 5pm.

Meeting Minutes – Sunday, January 13, 2019, 3:00 PM

ASHRAE TC 9.11 Clean Spaces

Energy Efficiency Subcommittee

1. Attendees:

2. Mission Statement: The Mission Statement and white paper will be posted on TC webpage.
3. Research:
   1. ACTION: Promote a research project for cleanroom issues.
   2. ACR MTG is researching air change rates (ACR). There is an informal meeting scheduled for this Monday evening, 9pm.
   3. Goal is to help various industries improve their facilities through better energy efficiency.
   4. 11 has an RTAR but now it needs to go to Research Subcommittee.
   5. Pharma is a big application:
      1. First, need to understand where the energy is spent in a Pharma Cleanroom.
      2. Semiconductor cleanrooms have lead the way with deficiencies.

• Surveys were done in Pharma Facilities.

1. The research project will ask pharma companies to estimate their facility’s energy usage.
2. Need to organizer per pharma types:
   1. Parental
   2. Compounding

• Devices.

1. Other important parameters to know are: Age; size; ACH; design parameters; room classifications, FFUs, OA%, room pressures.
2. We may need to incentivize participation, maybe provide some data that would not be made publically available?

4. Semiconductor cleanrooms could approach up to 100w/sf of process equipment heat, 2/3 of which would be removed by exhaust.
5. What is the right energy metrics for a cleanroom: PUE?  Energy per Kg of product produced?  Energy/$ Energy?
6. The Research Subcommittee will ask these questions.
7. Like Energy Star ratings, these ratings or surveys may change position as technology progresses.
8. An older research project looked at 8-10 cleanrooms to compare data.
   1. LBNL did this type of survey.
   2. We are asking Owners to measure total energy for cleanroom operations.
9. 90 fpm is classical HEPA filter velocity. Now it has gone down to 50 fpm without problems with unidirectional airflow.
10. 6 ACH for operating room as standard practice was defined in 1941 , which had to do with diluting concentrations of anesthesia (ether).
11. Regulators sometimes blindly endorse ACH standards, using the position that “ it is safer to leave things where they are.”
12. Any energy savings to pharmaceutical cleanrooms may risk 100 times that in production risks.
13. RTAR will help companies understand the risks and impacts for better facility decision-making.
14. Semiconductor industry has gone to recycled water because they use a lot of water.
15. If RTAR is approved, then we start finding companies that are willing to share cleanroom data.
16. TC 9.11 has published the Cleanroom Design Guide last year.
17. ASHRAE accepts research papers from Universities and publishes.

Unsolicited Research Projects can be submitted to ASHRAE.

 TC 9.11 Roster

 TC9 11_Chicago_Meeting report_2015 Approved

 TC9 11_Orlando_Meeting report_2016 Approved 16-06-25 r2

 TC9 11_StLouis_Meeting report_2016 Approved Las Vegas

 TC9 11_LasVegas_Meeting report_2017 Approved 17-06-26

 TC9 11_LasVegas_Meeting report_2017

 TC 9.11 Las Vegas Meeting Agenda

 TC 9.11 Minutes-Cover-Sheet-2016  St Louis

 TC9 11 StLouis Meeting report 2016

 TC 9.11 Roster

 Research & Technical Activities Report

 TC 9.11 Energy Efficiency Subcommittee Meeting, June 28, 2016
 TC9 11_Orlando_Meeting report_2016                             

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