ASHRAE 2022 Winter Conference - Toronto, CA
TC 7.5 is sponsoring/cosponsoring these technical sessions at the ASHRAE 2022 Annual Conference:
Sunday, June 26 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM EDT
Seminar 4: What Happened to our Hospitals after the COVID-19 Fiasco? HVAC Design, Control and Operation
Program Track: Buildings in the Aftermath of COVID-19
Room: Sheraton Centre Toronto , Grand East (LC)
Sponsors: 1.4 Control Theory and Application, 7.5 Smart Building Systems, TC 1.5, TC 9.6, TC 4.10
Chair: Frank Shadpour, P.E.
Most of our hospitals survived the COVID-19 fiasco; and, quite frankly, we don't know how. Every hospital scrambled to remain operational, including providing makeshift negative pressure rooms to safeguard its occupants to the extent possible. Now what? We need to plan for the battles of the future rather than focusing on the wars of the past. This seminar focuses on the lessons learned and presents the latest technology for the proper design, control, and operation of hospitals. New standards regarding air changes per hour, filtration and building automation are among the topics of discussion.
Sunday, June 26 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM EDT
Workshop 1: Developing an ASHRAE Standard/Guideline to Assess the Performance of Occupancy Sensor Systems in Buildings
Program Track: Research Summit
Room: Sheraton Centre Toronto , Provincial (2)
Technical Committee: 7.5 Smart Building Systems
Chair: Kristen Cetin, Ph.D., P.E.
A broad range of occupancy sensor systems are used in residential and commercial buildings, including for demand controlled ventilation, HVAC control and lighting controls, with the goal of saving energy and improving building performance. However there is not currently a standard methodology to evaluate the performance of occupancy sensor systems, including their reliability. This workshop focuses on a discussion of recent research findings on occupancy sensor reliability and the development of test methods that can be used to evaluate occupancy sensor reliability.
Sunday, June 26 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EDT
Seminar 10: Smart Buildings as a Transactive Energy Hub: Decarbonizing by Enhancing Building-to-Grid Interactions
Program Track: Connected Buildings, Connected Communities
Room: Sheraton Centre Toronto , Grand East (LC)
Technical Committee: 7.5 Smart Building Systems, 1.4 Control Theory and Application
Chair: Ron Bernstein
Decarbonization of the energy grid can get a boost from greater interactions and integration with building control system and their loads. Significant work over the last few years in this area has helped establish new requirements, standards and solutions. This session focuses on the key issues, current best practices, case studies and designing for interoperability, integration and interaction. Hear industry experts share about leading policy, regulation and pilot projects in California; the positive effects of building to grid integration; design and specification requirements; and how energy management information systems can facilitate buildings as a transactive energy integration hub.
Sunday, June 26 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM EDT
Seminar 14: The Importance of O&M to Energy Efficiency, Comfort, IAQ and Energy System Decarbonization
Program Track: IAQ, Energy Use, Comfort and Health of Sustainable Buildings
Location: Sheraton Centre Toronto , Grand East (LC)
Technical Committee: 7.3 Operation, Maintenance and Cost Management, 7.5 Smart Building Systems, TC 7.6
Chair: Michael Brambley, Ph.D.
The earth is warming from emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere with disastrous potential human impacts in this century. Signs are already evident: increasing major storm frequency, melting glaciers and super droughts. Building O&M are often overlooked in this context. Effective O&M is essential to ensure sustainable buildings remain so, and O&M improvements across the large existing buildings sector could cut GHG emissions quickly while improving energy efficiency, comfort and IAQ. The seminar explores ways of improving building O&M and the potential impacts of improved O&M on GHG emissions, energy efficiency and comfort.
Monday, June 27 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM EDT
Seminar 18: Impacts on Occupants' Experience in Grid-Interactive Efficient Building Operations
Program Track: IAQ, Energy Use, Comfort and Health of Sustainable Buildings
Room: Sheraton Centre Toronto , Provincial (2)
Technical Committee: 7.5 Smart Building Systems, MTG.OBB Occupant Behavior in Buildings
Chair: Li Song, Ph.D., P.E.
Grid-interactive efficient building (GEB) operation promises a viable means to offset increases in variability of the power grid associated with increasing deployment of variable renewable generation on the grid, resulting in a change in paradigm for managing electric system operations in buildings. Providing grid service while meeting the occupants' needs, GEB operation will unavoidably have impacts on occupants' experience in the built environment. This seminar includes several recent studies on energy performance and occupant experiences associated with the impacts of GEB operations. The studies include test and analysis results for residential buildings, commercial buildings and an urban-scale occupant-centric ecosystem.
Monday, June 27 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM EDT
Wednesday, June 29 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM EDT
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ALL ASHRAE committee meetings, including this TC’s meetings at the Winter and Annual Society conferences, are open to the public at no cost nor is conference registration required. Interested visitors, local chapter members, and potential new TC members are always welcome. However to attend technical program sessions sponsored by the TC will require registration and payment of any applicable fee.
Participation in an ASHRAE TC provides the opportunity to grow professionally and to contribute to the advancement of HVAC&R within an international organization recognized for shaping the future of the built environment through research, standards writing, publishing, and education.