TECA Member Meetings

This seminar provides a fundamental understanding of the radiant design process and the types of control systems which are used. Learning Objectives:

• Describe the advantages of using radiant floor heating technology;
• List application opportunities for radiant heating in residential, commercial, civic and institutional categories;
• Utilize the design process for radiant heating systems to determine floor temperatures, pipe spacing and fluid flow rates;
• Explain the types of control systems incorporated in radiant heating systems.

 

Agenda highlights

• FortisBC initiatives, rebate offers, and tools for your trade
• High-efficiency appliance innovations, and qualify retrofit installations
• HVAC 101: inspection process – City of Kelowna
• B.C. Energy Step Code – Building and Safety Standards Branch
• Building envelope: a holistic and collaborative approach towards improving/optimizing the energy efficiency of a building

Keynote speaker Chris Collette will talk about indoor air quality: sources of problems, and strategies to avoid and mitigate against them

Drawing on Chris Collett’s experiences as an IAQ consultant for over 35 years, the presentation will focus on sources of IAQ problems in both residences and workplaces. This field experience has shown that inadequacies in the design, operation and maintenance of HVAC systems are a significant cause of IAQ problems. However, many HVAC-related inadequacies can be cost-effectively mitigated.

There are also many other sources of potential IAQ issues in our homes and places of work. This presentation will discuss sources including the generation and infiltration of combustion by-products; moisture issues and mould growth; illicit uses of homes (i.e. grow-ops); and excessive use of household chemicals (this source is not widely recognized or discussed in IAQ circles!)

The presentation will conclude by looking at lessons learned from past mistakes, and will focus on the design and construction of new buildings, and the Canada Green Building Council’s LEED programs. Specifically, Chris Collett’s experience in IAQ testing in more than 90 LEED buildings will be reviewed.

Chris Collett is Principal Consultant at Christopher Collett and Associates Ltd. which has now been in business for 22 years. Chris has performed more than 2,000 IAQ investigations of commercial, institutional, industrial and residential buildings worldwide. Chris has authored numerous scientific and technical papers on IAQ, building performance and occupant health and comfort. Chris has also conducted LEED IAQ testing in over 90 projects throughout Western Canada.

Chris is Past President and Treasurer Emeritus of the ASHRAE British Columbia Chapter; Membership Director of the IAQA Vancouver Chapter; and his company is a Green Building Specialist member of the Canadian Green Building Council.

As your ultimate heat exchanger designer and manufacturer, AIC Heat Exchangers offers training and educational programs to support our product lines and assists in the transfer of knowledge to our clients. The training is suited to consulting engineers, contractors, maintenance professionals, wholesalers and students.

Basic heat transfer equations, Optimization of heat exchanger size and materials, Selection of equipment, Variables in heat transfer, Case studies.

We are building houses better whether to meet code or to achieve a voluntary high performance home program label, and the industry has seen a rising trend of comfort challenges. Higher energy efficiency targets in the building code; F-280, and participation in ENERGY STAR for New Homes and Net Zero Housing are here - we are all on the Path of Continual Improvement. Michelle Cote will walk you through an engaging conversation on innovation to identify and solve the challenges we are facing to integrate HVAC solutions to achieve Better, Faster, and Cost Efficiently – whether you are the builder, the contractor or the homeowner – it’s a win-win-win! - review what the industry identified as the challenges we were facing from an HVAC perspective in new house construction meeting new building code requirements and high performance voluntary programs - introduce the fundamentals of the system solutions and the benefits of right-sizing and modulation, that presented the opportunity to address distribution challenges and the benefits of a low-medium velocity duct system - discuss opportunities to optimize flexibility in equipment and energy choices from everyday construction to looking ahead at housing initiatives like Net Zero Energy Homes - review case study results that confirmed the heating and cooling system solutions solved some of the challenges identified through industry engagement