Title: Monthly Meeting
Date: January 11, 2012
Time: 11:45 AM
Place: IDAHO POWER BUILDING, 1221 W. IDAHO STREET, BOISE, IDAHO

January Program Details:

This month’s presentation will be:

Topic: Single Zone VAV Systems

Presenter: Brian Kammers, PE

Speaker bio:

Brian K. Kammers, PE

Midwest Regional Manager, AAON, Inc.

A Professional Engineer licensed in Wisconsin, Brian has over 25 years of experience in the HVAC industry. He has worked for some of the largest names in the HVAC industry.  His experience includes the development of commercial equipment, integration of building controls, open communication protocols, energy analysis, and marketing of residential HVAC products.  A member of ASHRAE since 1981, he has participated in on the BACnet Committee and the Computer Applications Technical Committee.  Currently he is a Regional Manager for AAON, Inc. covering the Midwest.

Title: Monthly Meeting
Date: December 14, 2011
Time: 11:45 AM
Place: IDAHO PIZZA COMPANY, 7100 W. FAIRVIEW AVENUE, BOISE, IDAHO

December Program Details:

This month’s presentation will be:

Topic: Flow Control using Variable Speed Circulators

Presenter: Greg Cunniff, PE

Speaker bio:

Greg Cunniff, PE

Manager – Application Engineering, Taco, Inc.

Greg received a BS in 1969 and MS in 1970 in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering from Montana State University.  He is a licensed Professional Engineer in California, Florida and Montana.

Greg has experience with his own businesses as a Consulting Engineer for 10 years, a manufacturer’s representative and building automation system contractor for 10 years, and a design-build contractor for 10 years.  He has been Manager of Application Engineering for Taco, Inc, since 2000.

Greg has authored a number of industry technical articles for publication, written technical literature and marketing brochures, developed informational and social media websites, developed engineering software, developed award winning new products and innovative systems, developed e-learning and continuing education programs and materials, and spoken at numerous seminars and
continuing education training programs.

Title: Monthly Meeting
Date: November 9, 2011
Time: 11:45 AM
Place: IDAHO POWER BUILDING, 1221 W. IDAHO STREET, BOISE, IDAHO

November Program Details:

This month’s chapter meeting will be a presentation of “Ice Thermal Storage Applications” by John Lau from Baltimore Air Coil.

Speaker Bio:

John Lau – Manager, Thermal Storage

Baltimore Aircoil Company

John Lau joined Baltimore Aircoil Company (BAC) in 1995.  As Senior Technical Engineer, he assisted in the design of ice thermal storage systems throughout the world.  In 1999, John was promoted to the position of International Market Manager responsible for directing and supporting BAC’s international market activities.   In June 2006, John was appointed General Manager, Sales and Marketing for Greater China.  During his 4 year international assignment in China, John helped to establish BAC as the market leader in ice thermal storage in the Greater China region.

John and his family moved back to Baltimore in June 2010. As Manager of Thermal Storage for BAC, he is currently responsible for the Company’s ice thermal storage market development and product applications.

John holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tennessee and a MBA from the John Hopkins University.  Prior to joining Baltimore Aircoil Company, John worked for Westinghouse Electric Corporation as an electrical engineer and later as a program manager with responsibility for design, development, and manufacturing of electronics equipment for the space and aviation industry.

Title: Monthly Meeting
Date: October 12, 2011
Time: 11:45 AM
Place: IDAHO STATE CAPITOL BUILDING

October Program Details:

This month’s chapter meeting will be a tour of the Idaho State Capitol Building.  Following a $120M renovation completed in January 2010, the Capitol Building now features an upgraded HVAC system, new fire alarm and fire protection systems, new wireless building management system, historic renovation of the interior and exterior of the building, and the addition of  two underground wings.  Idaho has the nation’s only capitol building heated by geothermal water.

We have the legislative lunch room reserved for this tour and will be serving lunch in this area.  Please use the West entrance to the underground wings for access to this area.  If anyone needs additional information regarding the location, please feel free to call Cory Law at 841-4656.

Also, please RSVP on this website (to the right) if you haven’t already done so.  We are ordering box lunches for this event and don’t want to short anyone expected to attend.  I hope to see you all there.

Title: Monthly Meeting
Date: September 14, 2011
Time: 11:45 AM
Place: WAHOOZ FAMILY FUN CENTER – 1385 S. BLUE MARLIN LANE, MERIDIAN, IDAHO 83642 –
We will meet in the large room in the NE corner of the main building.

This month our speaker will be Jeff Johnson, of Johnson Thermal Systems

Biography:
B.S. Agricultural Engineering, Cal Poly SLO
Engineer at Schreiber Engineering, Cerritos, CA from 2000-2004. Schreiber Engineering built ½-30 ton process chillers.
Started Johnson Thermal Systems in 2004 in Escondido, CA.
Moved to ID in 2005.

Currently Johnson Thermal Systems is engaged in design and manufacture of process water chillers, packaging and retrofit of commercial A/C chillers, and manufacturing of bio-gas cooling and drying systems.

Lunch Topics:
• Introduction of the Vapor Compression cycle
• Brief overview of other less common refrigeration cycle
• Overview of Pressure-Enthalpy (p-h) chart
• Relationships between the p-h chart & how it correlates to a real piece of refrigeration equipment
• Explanation of economized cycles