2012 ASHRAE Winter Conference

The 2012 American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Winter Conference is being held at the Palmer House Hilton Hotel in Chicago. The conference runs from Saturday, January 21 to Wednesday, January 25.

The technical program has more than 100 programs by nearly 300 speakers. Highlights include:

• Energy Efficiency track: DOAS Parallel Systems, Configuration and Controls;
• Energy Modeling Applications track: Integrated Multi-domain Simulations for Innovative Building Design and Operation;
• High Performance Buildings track: Advanced Control and Diagnostic Techniques for Efficient Operation of High Performance Buildings; Thermal Displacement Ventilation Applications for High Performance Buildings;
• HVAC&R Fundamentals and Applications track: “How to Specify Seismic Certification”; “Loads on the Move: Mobile Apps”;
• HVAC&R Systems and Equipment track: Chicago Smackdown: Air-Source vs. Ground Source or Best Practices for Air-Source vs. Ground-Source Heat Pump Systems; Water-Cooled VRF Systems;
• Integrated Design track: Streamlining BIM through Open Information Exchanges; Advancing the ‘I’ in BIM;

Professional Skills track: Protecting Your Design Against Changing Requirements; Increase the Impact of Your Presentation;

• Specialized Applications, Healthcare, Laboratories, and Data Centers track.

For more information on the ASHRAE Conference, visit www.ashrae.org/chicago.

In conjunction with the ASHRAE conference, the 2012 AHR Expo takes place at McCormick Place between Monday, January 23 to Wednesday, January 25.

The winners of the 2012 AHR Expo Innovation Awards for new products have already been announced.

They include: Building Automation – Geofinity Manufacturing’s ORB Heat Pump Controller. Cooling – Emerson Climate Technologies’ Copeland Scroll Variable Speed Compressor. Green Building – ClimaCool Corp’s SHC onDEMAND Simultaneous Heating and Cooling Pump System. Heating – Enerconcept Technologies’ Lubi Wall Wall-Mounted Solar Air Heater. Refrigeration – Emerson Climate Technologies’ Copeland Scroll K5 Refrigeration Compressor. Ventilation – Melink Corporation’s Intelli-Hood Kitchen Ventilation Control.

To see the complete list of winning products, visit www.ahrexpo.com.