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Can you believe that we are quickly approaching the Holiday Season? Hal-loween is this weekend, daylight sav-ings time ends early Sunday morning, and next week we've got our Novem-ber chapter meetings. For those at-tending the Central meeting, we'll have Region VIII Director and Regional Chair, Ken Fulk visiting the chapter. The DRC makes a trip to every chapter each year and evaluates how the chapters conduct their meetings and makes sure that the chapters are in-deed providing value to their member-ship. I encourage everyone to come, bring a guest, enjoy some barbecue, hear a great technical program, and connect with your peers.

If you wanted to play paintball and you regret missing the chance to shoot at your chapter president I can assure you that you'll get another chance. We had such a good time that we are going to make it a semi-annual event and plan to go again in the Spring. For all of those who gave excuses for not coming out, I'll re-mind you again in the Spring - "If you're scared, say you're scared!" I want to say thanks again to Mark

Mizell for planning another great YEA outing. Stay tuned for another Fluids Seminar next month.

Just a reminder that the ASHRAE Win-ter Meeting and AHR Expo is coming up in January. The meeting will be in Orlando, FL. Check the ASHRAE web-site for details. While the AHR Expo is a major draw for people who go to the Winter meeting, I want to give an endorsement for the technical ses-sions that ASHRAE presents at the Winter and Annual meetings. A con-sulting engineer in need of profes-sional development hours can hear programs on the most current topics in ASHRAE and they are presented in a non-commercial perspective. In two short days a registered engineer could have enough PDHs to last all year.

Over the last few months, Central Ar-kansas experienced an initiative called Season of Service. Thousands of vol-unteers, churches, government agen-cies, and businesses contributed time and financial resources to help im-prove the lives of people in our com-munity. Many of the people who served their community made new friends, discovered hidden talents, and were rewarded for their efforts by seeing the appreciation from the re-cipients of the service projects. If you are interested in serving your ASHRAE community, we've got a great team of officers, board members, and grass roots committee chairs that would love to have you participate. Your reward will be gaining leadership skills, making new friends, and also receiving recognition in the commu-nity as a leader. Another reward is the opportunity to travel to the Re-gion VIII CRC. Chapter officers and committee chairs are encouraged to

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NOVEMBER MEETING

Central Arkansas

Date: Wednesday, November 4 Location: Camp Aldersgate Cost: $15 / Each Person Schedule: 10:30am Board Meeting 11:30am Tech Session 11:45am Lunch 12:00-1:00pm Program - Laboratory Venti-lation

Northwest Arkansas

Date: Thursday, November 5 Location: AQ Chicken, Springdale Cost: ~$12 / Each Person Schedule: 11:30am Lunch 12:00-1:00pm Program - Laboratory Venti-lation

Arkansas Chapter Newsletter for the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc.

www.arkansasashrae.org Volume XXI, Issue 3, November 2009

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Chapter Meeting Calendar: Page 2 Meeting Minutes: Page 3 Committee Reports: Pages 4,5 Officers & Committee Chairs: Page 6

The President’s Message By Chris Ahne

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Month Meeting Topic

Speaker Section Date Location Meeting

Designation

Sept Shared Savings/Performance Contracting

Tim Staley Com-fort Systems USA Energy Services

Central 09/02/09 Camp Aldersgate

NWA 09/03/09 AQ Chicken

Oct Integrated Pro-ject Delivery

Mark Beach CDI Construction Co


Joint Meeting with AIA


Nov Laboratory Venti-

lation

Tony Rossi Greenheck Fan Corporation



Dec

Tour UAMS West Central Energy

Plant N/A Central 12/02/09

7th & Palm Streets

Refrigeration

Refrigeration NWA 12/03/09 AQ Chicken

Jan ACT 1494 Ed Ellis AR Dept.

of Energy


Government Affairs


Feb ASHREA Standard 170 Healthcare Ventilation

Tony Rousseau Newcomb & Boyd



Mar Commissioning For Sustainability

Tom Hanlon


Sustainability


Apr TBD TBD



May N/A N/A

Central 05/05/10 TBD

NWA N/A N/A

Past Presidents Recognition

Richard Royal Walmart

ARKANSAS CHAPTER MEETING MINUTES Board Meeting of October 7, 2009

Officers and Board Members Present

Steve Keen, President-elect/CTTC Marc White, Treasurer Bill Simpson, Secretary Kim Koch, BOG Marc Cathey, BOG Randy Ragsdale, BOG Charles Wetzler, BOG Committee Chairs Present

James Dayer - Programs Chair Forrest Moseley, Student Activities Chair Mark Mizell, Student Activities/YEA Sub-chair Lee Greeson, Newsletter Editor Joel Funkhouser, Membership Micah Spahn, Membership Co-chair Terry Jacks, Reception Board Meeting Minutes

Steve Keen called the meeting to order at 10:30 a.m. Steve encouraged officers and committee chairs to meet with their respective RVCs and reminded everyone that MBOs are due October 15. He noted that officers and committee chairs should contact their predecessors to get the old MBOs for their role. Steve announced that the NW Section meeting would be held tomorrow (10/8) and, despite some talk of moving, the meeting would be held at AQ Chicken in Springdale. Steve reported that all programs are scheduled for the year except for one date held open for the incoming society president. However, there are still a few dates available for tech ses-sions. Steve also reminded everyone to be looking for potential projects for regional award submissions. Lastly, Steve announced that he is still working to develop the slate of continuing education seminars.

Marc White presented the Treasurer’s Report. He noted that the report included all the changes approved at last month’s board meeting. It was noted that taxes are due November 1, and Marc said he’d contact the tax pre-parer to resolve a few open issues with the chapter tax return. Marc has also contacted Chris Call about the au-dit committee. Kim Koch reminded Marc that she would be contacting him about the chapter’s pending $10,000 research promotion contribution. Bill Simpson moved to approve the Treasurer’s Report as presented. Kim seconded the motion and it was approved by acclamation.

Bill Simpson pointed out that the September meeting minutes had been published in the October newsletter. At which point Steve Keen moved to approve the minutes as published and Marc White seconded. The motion, once again, was approved by acclamation.

Steve Keen praised the efforts of Tony DeMarco and all others involved with organizing the fall golf tournament and announced that the associated invoices had been sent.

On the student activities front, Forrest Moseley summarized the activities of the month and upcoming activities for next month. He announced that he had a meeting scheduled to meet with the UALR faculty after the ASHRAE meeting today (10/7). Forrest has also talked to Wayne Helmer at ATU and is helping arrange to send one stu-dent from ATU to the society winter meeting. Forrest said the Fluid Seminar at West End in September was re-ceived well despite the Razorbacks’ loss to Alabama that day.

Joel Funkhouser announced that people have been responding well to the delinquency campaign but that get-ting all the members to renew their memberships is a work in progress.

Terry Jacks suggested we assign names to e-mail addresses on E-Vite to aid with reception at the monthly meet-ings.

Kim Koch gave a plug for research promotion and reminded everyone that contributions toward Full Circle are due November 15. She explained that participation from the committee chairs is optional.

Lee Greeson set the deadline for submissions for the next newsletter at October 23.

Mark Mizell announced that the next Young Engineers in ASHRAE (YEA) event will be paintball on October 18 in Jacksonville. The cost is $10 plus the cost of paint.

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The board meeting was adjourned at 11:15.

Program and Technical Session Minutes

Chris Ahne welcomed everyone in attendance, recognized visitors and intro-duced past presidents. Chris reminded people to sign up for prepaid meals and announced the YEA paintball event coming up on October 18. In the spirit of the YEA event, Chris gave away paintballs to chapter members that could identify chapter committee chairs and officers. Furthermore, Kim Koch auc-tioned more paintballs allowing people to challenge others in attendance to raise a total of $60 toward research promotion. To round up the welcoming, Joel Funkhouser recognized the newest members of our chapter.

The tech session and program were melded together and presented by Mark Beach from CDI General Contractors and Mark Kenneday from UAMS. The topic was Integrated Project Delivery. The two defined Integrated Project De-livery (IPD) as a collaborative process that involves people, systems and proc-esses to increase value and reduce waste and compared it to the design-bid-build, negotiated construction management and design-build models.

Kenneday explained that with the IPD model the owner picks the entire team typically before cost or timeline is determined, and consequently, this model can be more risky for the owner than the other models. However, Kenneday went further to explain that for the IPD model to work, all team members have to keep open minds, understand reciprocal relationships between all involved and “play nice”. If those criteria are met, Beach and Kenneday explained that IPD can bring the following things to a project: communication levels expecta-tions; opportunity for innovation; effect changes earlier in the project life cy-cle for lower cost impact; avoid “value engineering” (don’t design more than the owner can afford); and improve time to market. Kenneday emphasized that team members should bring skills and competency to the table but leave biases behind.

Beach pointed out that with the IPD model—like with any of the models—it is much more expensive to make changes the later you are in the project time-line. Kenneday expressed his disdain for the “value engineering” process by comparing it to an excise tax on a project.

Kenneday equated value to benefit divided by cost and that through IPD bene-fit would be greater due to team stability and cost should be less because of design control. He added that value has to be derived and perceived by the owner.

The two presenters explained how the team benefits from this model as well. Every member has a place on the team with input and access thus avoiding the “if they asked me, I’d have done it like this” mentality. Also, risk, and therefore fear of litigation, is reduced because the team members understand the expectations and intent of the project.

Beach explained that traditional rules and responsibilities remain in tact, but designers design to a detailed budget and contractors evaluate if the design accurately reflects what was budgeted. Collaboration and detailed input are the added responsibility of “early” participation, and as a result, team mem-bers are “assured” participation and designers ensure their intent is under-stood.

Beach and Kenneday concluded by emphasizing the need for transparency in the IPD model.

Bill Harrison inquired about the role of commissioning. Kenneday responded by saying commissioning should be involved at the onset of the project and that there should be a standard or guideline to follow. Kenneday added that the role of commissioning agent is to make sure that the project team meets contractual obligations to ensure an optimal outcome.

Chris Ahne reminded everyone that the November meeting topic is lab ventila-tion and adjourned the meeting.

October Meeting Minutes (Continued from page 3)

Membership Report Joel Funkhouser—Membership

Chair

I’d like to welcome our two new-est members, Jeffrey Richards of Little Rock and Jeremy Town-send of Little Rock and our new-est student member, Sandeep Putta of Fayetteville. I applaud you for your interest in the HVAC&R field and look forward to seeing you at our November meeting!

We have a strong chapter, and additional members will help to make us even stronger. ASHRAE offers invaluable resources to design engineers, contractors, and owners alike, and everyone that attends meetings is encour-aged to seek membership to aid in strengthening our chapter. As always, if you have any ques-tions pertaining to membership, please contact me and I’ll be happy to assist you.

Research Promotion Kim Koch—Committee Chair

It’s hard to believe that it is No-vember already. As you are looking toward the end of the year, don’t forget that contribu-tions to ASHRAE Research Pro-motion are tax deductible. Use the following link to easily make your contribution on-line.

https://www.ashrae.org/aboutus/resource_promotion.asp

attend the CRC for training in chapter operations. What's the reward in attending these meet-ings? Every five years, the CRC is hosted by one of the Mexican chapters and this year's CRC is in Monterrey, Mexico!

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First Annual Y.E.A. Paintball Battle Results Mark Mizell—YEA Coordinator

Fourteen Arkansas ASHRAE members and guests attended the Young Engineers in ASHRAE (Y.E.A) paintball event and had a real blast. In fact, many thousand blasts. The Blue Team, captained by chapter Secretary (of Defense) Bill Simpson, annihilated President Chris Ahne’s Red Team. The November Y.E.A. Fluids Semi-nar will be a tour of Diamond Bear Brewery. Details will be an-nounced at the November meet-ing.

Imagine Life without Air-conditioning and Refrigeration Mark Emmerling—Refrigeration Chair

These items have become such necessities to our daily lives that when we get up in the morning and pour a glass of or-ange juice or milk from the refrigerator we don’t even think about its cold temperature. We get in our cars on a hot sum-mer day and turn on the air conditioner to keep cool and comfortable on our way to our air-conditioned office. When we plop down in our easy chair after a busy day at work and the outside temperature is a hundred degrees plus, we are nice and cool inside at seventy-two degrees. The majority of the population’s first exposure to air-conditioning was from their attendance to a movie house or theater. In 1929, overcoming technical obstacles, the Frigidaire division of General Motors introduced the first `portable room cooler‘. In 1931, the DeLA Vergne Company produced the first air-cooled console unit. In 1932, the Thorne Company introduced the first window air-conditioner. Air conditioning became affordable and more popular after 1945 given the companies technical efforts. In 1955, split units with air cooled condensers became popular. Through the years, people have become so accustomed to these amenities that they are just expected. I don’t think it is possible to purchase a new vehicle or new housing without air-conditioning unless it is special ordered. It is not probable that any one person can lay claim to inventing refrigeration as we know it today. It has been the effort of several individuals spanning the past 150 years. Refrigeration is constantly changing and being updated, be it domes-tic, commercial or industrial refrigeration, from basic thermostats to the networked controller. All engineers and techni-cians face new challenges on a daily basis. One last thought…Back before there was refrigeration during the cold winter months, northern states would cut huge blocks of ice directly from their frozen rivers and transport to other states for domestic and commercial use.

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CRC 2010 Update Stephen Titus—CRC Delegate So a quick flashback for everyone. How many people have some great memories from the CRC in Cancun? How many people wish that they had gone to the CRC in Cancun? Well here is your chance! The CRC this year will be held in Monterey, Mexico, April 22nd through 24th. There is no beach this time, but Mon-terey looks like a great city, and with the Mexican hospitality we experi-enced in Cancun, I am sure that we are in for a treat. Everyone mark your calendars, and get your passports ready. Arkansas is always represented well at CRC, and here is a chance to treat your spouse to a nice trip at the same time. You can begin checking out the details at www.crc-2010.org.

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Future ASHRAE Meetings:

2010 ASHRAE Winter Meeting January 23-27, 2010

Orlando, FL

2010 Region VIII CRC April 22-24, 2010 Monterrey, Mexico

2010 ASHRAE Annual Conference

June 26-30, 2010 Albuquerque, NM

Membership Joel Funkhouser Student Activities Forrest Moseley Programs James Dayer Historian Steve Titus Refrigeration Mark Emmerling Research Promotion Kim Koch Newsletter Lee Greeson NW Section Landon Lay Social Tony DeMarco Reception Terry Jacks Webmaster Haidara Agalheir Sustainability Tom Hanlon

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Committee Chairs

President Chris Ahne 501.661.0621 [email protected] Vice-Pres. Steve Keen 501.374.5420 [email protected] Treasurer Marc White 501.664.3311 [email protected] Secretary Bill Simpson 501.661.0621 [email protected]

2009-2010 Chapter Officers

Marc Cathey 501.374.3731 [email protected] Randy Ragsdale 501.223.9302 [email protected] Charles Wetzler 501.590.2703 [email protected] Steve Titus (CRC Delegate) 501.607.1586 [email protected] Kim Koch (CRC Alternate) 501.666.6776 [email protected]

Board of Governors

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