Joint meeting with La Crosse Area ASHRAE Chapter |Continuing Education Credits available |
Location: Trane Erickson Building 13
Lunch: $10, BYOB, ASHRAE members can bring a non-ASHRAE member for BOGO Free. Use code: NOVBOGO
As the building community becomes more aware of the causes and the remedial strategies for climate change, the drive for energy efficiency in buildings is being replaced by a drive for decarbonization. In many areas of the world, the electrical grid is rapidly decarbonizing, so that fully electric buildings are seen as a primary strategy for decarbonization. The primary challenges for decarbonization are building space heating and domestic water heating. This presentation discusses strategies for electrifying these building services in ways that maximize energy efficiency and reduce first cost while maintaining comfort and functionality. The presentation also discusses how these systems can be configured to shift loads from periods of high grid carbon intensity to periods of low grid carbon intensity.
Mr. Nall is a professional engineer, a registered architect, an ASHRAE and an AIA Fellow, a LEED Fellow, an ASHRAE Certified Building Energy Modeling Professional, a certified High Performance Building Design Professional and a Certified Passive House Consultant.
His areas of expertise include underfloor air distribution, thermally active floors, thermal storage, central plant design, energy recovery and building electrification. Projects for which he has had a substantive engineering design contribution include 270 Park Avenue (the J.P. Morgan Chase Headquarters), the BlackRock Headquarters at 55 Hudson Yards, 200 West Street (Goldman Sachs Headquarters), the New York Times Headquarters, the Hearst Tower all in NYC, the William J. Clinton Presidential Center, the University of Virginia Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, the Delaware State Archives, the Alcoa Headquarters in Pittsburgh, the Banco Macro Headquarters in Buenos Aires and the U.S. Embassies in Sofia, Bulgaria, Cape Town, South Africa, and Kathmandu, Nepal.