ASHRAE Columbus April Event
Sunday, March 29, 2015 at 9:10PM Topic: How to Kill Geothermal Heat Pump Systems
Place: Grange Audubon Center, 505 W Whittier St, Columbus
Date: Monday, April 20, 2014
Time: Registration 11:30am, Program 11:45am
Cost: $25 Local ASHRAE Members, $35 Non-Local ASHRAE Members
Beginning in 2015, walk-ins will no longer be accepted. If you are planning on attending you must preregister. Registration closes Friday, February 13th.
Speaker: Stephen Hamstra, ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer
President, Greensleeves LLC
Stephen Hamstra, President of Greensleeves LLC was previously Executive Vice President of GMB Architecture + Engineering. He received his degree in mechanical engineering from Michigan State University in 1981. Steve received the 1st Place 2014 ASHRAE Energy Technology Award for New Educational Facilities and the 2013 ASHRAE Region V Energy Technology Award. Steve was the first engineer in Michigan to achieve Certified GeoExchange Designer status (in 2000), first engineer in Michigan to receive LEED Accredited Professional status (in 2001) and the first engineer in Michigan to receive ASHRAE High Performance Building Design Professional status (in 2008).
Steve was selected by the Association of Energy Engineers as the 2006 Energy Engineer of the Year in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. In 2007, the Association of Energy Engineers recognized him as a “Legend in Energy” for lifetime achievement.
Steve is a registered Professional Engineer in several states, with ground source heat pump design experience in more than 5 million square feet of facilities and several patents pending for Ground Source Heat Pump and Thermal Energy Storage System Control Technology. His articles are frequently published in Engineered Systems magazine and Ground Up, the publication of the European Ground Source Heat Pump Association.
In addition to ASHRAE, he is also a member of the National Society of Professional Engineers; the Association of Energy Engineers; the International Ground Source Heat Pump Association; GEO and GeoExchange. He is a voting member of ASHRAE Technical Committee 6.8 Geothermal Heat Pump and Energy Recovery Applications. Steve speaks frequently at ASHRAE conferences, IGSHPA conferences and other high performance building-related conferences.