TOPIC: Green Buildings Waste Energy Efficiently
PLACE: Spaghetti Warehouse, 397 West Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio
DATE: Monday, November 19, 2012
TIME: Registration 11:30am, Program 11:45am
COST: $20 Local ASHRAE members, $25 Non-Local ASHRAE Members
PRESENTER: Larry Spielvogel, PE
REGISTRATION: Click Here
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Actual experience with metered energy data from green and sustainable buildings shows that most do not perform any better than other new buildings. One of the main reasons is the complexity that is designed and installed to hopefully achieve more points and meet higher standards, but does not perform as advertised or modeled. In addition, most building operators are not able to understand how these complex systems are supposed to function. Even many contractors have little or no experience or training with installing and maintaining these systems. This presentation will provide examples of widely publicized green and sustainable buildings with metered data that proves they waste energy efficiently.
Speaker Biography
Larry Spielvogel is a Consulting Engineer with less than 50 years of experience, located in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in less than 50 States and in less than 40 other countries.
He is a Fellow and Life Member of ASHRAE and a bunch of other societies. He has never submitted or won any design awards and never got any of these new certifications. The only initials after his name are those granted by governments, because more initials may imply that he is better than anyone else is. Thus, he is not being extorted to pay for continuing education costs by the sponsoring organizations. He fears that any more initials after his name might paint a target on his back for the lawyers to shoot at. He does not always comply with ASHRAE standards because they are not required by codes or by law, and believes they no longer represent the standard ofcare in the HVAC field. Not all the members of the ASHRAE committees can even understand them.
He has never been sued, except for divorce. He is not worried about offending any sponsors or
advertisers. Most organizationsand publications are catering to sponsors and advertisers today. He is just an old-fashioned engineer.
His motto is “show me your metered data.”
Thursday, November 1, 2012 at 11:01AM