2010 CRC Schedule

August 26-Thursday

August 27-Friday

August 28-Saturday

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2010 Chapters Regional Conference

The Chapters Regional Conference (CRC) provides a forum for the open exchange of information pertaining to chapter and regional operations. The conference includes workshops, technical sessions, business meetings and the presentation of regional awards. Join us as the leadership of the chapters of Region X discuss the challenges and successes of running their local chapter.

For more information, please refer to the 2010 CRC Newsletter.

Registration Forms: 2010 CRC Registration Form.

May Meeting

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Topic: Job Walk @ Belimo

1049 Fortunato Loop Sparks, NV

The meeting will be held at the Belimo Americas located at 1049 Fortunato Loop Sparks, NV at 5:30, and walk from 6 ’til 7ish, closing around 7:15′ish.  The new facility is located just before the Spanish Springs Library on Pyramid Highway when your are driving north.

We are thankful to our partners at Belimo Americas for inviting us to tour their new distribution center in Sparks.  The building was completed this winter and is in the LEED accreditation submittal process in hopes of achieving LEED Gold status.  The tour will be followed by a tri-tip dinner provided to us by The Lake Bar and Grill.

We hope to see you all there!

April Meeting

Thursday, April 15, 2010

The meeting will be held at the Austin’s Restaurant. Cocktails at 6:00, Dinner at 6:30, Speaker from7’til 8′ish, Closing around 8:15′ish.

Topic: Beyond Balancing

Speaker: Ken Luther

Speaker Biography:

Mr. Luther is a member of ASHRAE where he is active in T.C. 1.9 – Electrical Systems (past chair and currently Standards sub-committee chair), T.C.  6.1 – Hydronic & Steam Heating Equipment & Systems, and T.C. 6.11 – Pumps & Hydronic Piping (formerly chair and Standards sub-committee chair), voting member and former Chair of the Mechanical Sub-committee of SSPC 90.1 – Standards Committee on Energy Efficient Design of New Buildings, ASPE, and ASHE and has spoken at many of their society.   He has presented technical papers throughout the world at ASHRAE, NEBB, ISA, and EPRI Annual Meetings and published papers on variable speed pumping in ASHRAE Journal, Maintenance Technology, Heating Piping and Air Conditioning, Pumps and Systems and the Florida Specifier.

The ASHRAE Board of Directors voted Mr. Luther a Distinguished Lecturer for the years 2000 – 2005.  This selective group delivers programs to ASHRAE Chapters, universities, and colleges on leading edge technology in our industry.

Mr. Luther is currently the Sales Director West Region for Griswold Controls, Inc., Irvine, CA.  In this position he is responsible for Sales and Technical direction of the sales representatives in the western United States.  His expertise is in hydronic system design and applications.

Previous to Griswold Controls, Mr. Luther, a civil engineer, held management positions with ITT Residential and Commercial Water Group (Bell & Gossett) for 24 years, two international variable speed drive manufacturers, and was a consulting engineer for seven years.

March Meeting

Thursday, March 18, 2010

The meeting will be held at the Austin’s Restaurant. Cocktails at 6:00, Dinner at 6:30, Speaker from7’til 8′ish, Closing around 8:15′ish.

Topic: Rainwater Collection Methods

Speaker: Brian Soderholm

Speaker Biography:

Brian is Vice President of Water Control Corporation and works with new product and marketdevelopment. Brian has a B.A. from Kalamazoo College in Economics and is close tocompleting his MBA at the University of Minnesota. He has held his current position for 6 yearsand has over 16 years experience in the construction and installation of commercial watertreatment systems. Water Control specializes in packaged water treatment systems forcommercial, institutional, and industrial applications, including vehicle wash water, rainwater,backwash, condensate, gray water, and other wastewater reclamation systems. Brian hasdesigned custom systems for many applications. He conducts system design seminars formechanical engineers, often in conjunction with associations like ASHRAE, ASPE, and ASSE.

ASHRAE Annual Clay Shoot

March BOG Meeting

Thursday, March 11, 2010

The March BOG meeting will be at the Woody’s Grille & Spirits at 12 o’clock on March 11, 2010.

Woody’s Grille & Spirits
960 S. McCarran Blvd. #108
Sparks, NV 89431
(775) 351-1010

February Meeting

Thursday, February 18, 2010

The meeting will be held at the Austin’s Restaurant. Cocktails at 6:00, Dinner at 6:30, Speaker from7’til 8′ish, Closing around 8:15′ish

Topic: Water Source Heat Pumps

Speaker: Kenton Hawkins

Speaker Biography:

Kenton first went to the University of Redlands and then finished his undergraduate degree at Cal State University, Fullerton. After working in Africa for 2 years, Kenton returned home and began his career in heat transfer along with beginning work on a Masters degree.

His career began as an applications engineer and customer support at Russell Coil Company in Brea, a commercial refrigeration equipment manufacturer, figuring box and product load calculations, and matching systems that would fit the applications. Expanding his growth in commercial refrigeration, Kenton became an outside salesman for Larkin, which later became part of the Heatcraft group which is currently owned by Lennox Industries. The territory was doing so well the company split the geography in 2, and he focused his attention on the southern California market and was given Hawaii as a bonus.

Kenton’s management opportunity came with his work for Danfoss selling their refrigeration products, compressors and controls. He became the first to sell Danfoss drives to Ralphs, an 87 facility supermarket chain based in Torrance. And as further acquisitions took place with Danfoss, Kenton took on the additional responsibilities of selling total supermarket controls for racks, HVAC, lighting, and their walk-in refrigeration and freezer boxes.

It has been Kenton’s good fortune to work with other companies such as ClimateMaster, a water-source heat-pump manufacturer, Hansen Technologies; an ammonia controls company, APC (American Power Conversion) selling mission critical HVAC systems into all sizes of data centers, and also district manager for Lennox.

Flier for event: February Ashrae Meeting

January Meeting

Thursday, January 21, 2010

The meeting will be held at the Austin’s Restaurant. Cocktails at 6:00, Dinner at 6:30, Speaker from 6:45 ’til 7:30′ish, Closing around 8′ish

Topic: Solar Thermal Technologies

Speaker: Jeff Deal

Speaker Biography:

Jeff Deal is CEO of Hamilton Engineering, Inc., of Livonia, Michigan, manufacturer of Solar Panels and components, high efficiency water heating and hydronic heating products and systems.

Prior to starting Hamilton in 1981, his work was in the field of engineering heat recovery products and systems for process and commercial heating equipment exhaust stacks in a non-condensing mode. Included in a number of these systems was solar assisted hot water.

Throughout the 1980’s and early 1990’s most of his engineering work was done in the field application of fan-assisted combustion on copper finned appliances in the 85 – 88% efficiency range (so called near condensing at that time). The industry was learning much about actual combustion exhaust dew points and effects of fans on the gas delivery and regulation systems during that period.

In 1995 he began working to apply condensing combustion to products for the North American market. Finding over 20 years of application and production in the European community already in existence, he has spent considerable time since then being educated by and working side by side with the founding fathers of those products, components and technology. In 2001, Hamilton Engineering introduced its first (intentionally) condensing product to the North American market.

With the renaissance of the solar market in the last 5 years and the natural alignment of high efficiency condensing technology and solar technology on the same projects, Jeff and Hamilton Engineering have combined these two companion technologies and provide design assistance and high-quality equipment to help engineers and contractors create high-efficiency solar systems for the US market.

Flier for event: January Ashrae Meeting

2010 Region X Chapter Regional Conference (CRC)

August 26 – 28, 2010
Reno, NV