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.