ASHRAE Journal Podcast

Alec Cusick, Associate Member ASHRAE; Steve Tredinnick, P.E., Fellow ASHRAE; Gary Phetteplace, Ph.D., P.E., Fellow/Life Member ASHRAE; and ASHRAE Journal Editor Drew Champlin discuss why it’s critical that the steam and water pipes in district energy environments be designed with longevity in mind. Have any great ideas for the show? Contact the ASHRAE Journal Podcast team at podcast@ashrae.org. Interested in reaching the global HVACR engineering leaders with one program? Contact Greg ...

Kelley Cramm, P.E., Life Member ASHRAE, and Drew Champlin, Editor of ASHRAE Journal, discuss the basics of VRF systems and how to keep them from failing. Learn more on installation practices and how engineers and contractors can ensure owners are getting a quality installation. Have any great ideas for the show? Contact the ASHRAE Journal Podcast team at podcast@ashrae.org. Interested in reaching the global HVACR engineering leaders with one program? Contact Greg Martin at 01 678-539-...

Daniel Bourque, Greg Nilsson, and Dr. Rebecca Schmidt discuss ASHRAE Guideline 44P, Protecting Building Occupants from Smoke During Wildfire and Prescribed Burn Events, and how wildfire smoke impacts buildings, people and public health. Have any great ideas for the show? Contact the ASHRAE Journal Podcast team at podcast@ashrae.org. Interested in reaching the global HVACR engineering leaders with one program? Contact Greg Martin at 01 678-539-1174

Data center operators and owners have strict sustainability goals, and it is paramount mission-critical data centers are equipped with innovative solutions to help achieve these goals as quickly as possible. Join Host Thomas Loxley with Mukul Anand and Joe Prisco as they discuss the current “hot aisle-cold aisle” design and how purposefully designed data centers can achieve optimal performance and efficiency driven by artificial intelligence. Have any great ideas for the show? Contact ...

Join ASHRAE’s Manager of Codes, Emily Toto, as she speaks with William Bahnfleth, Ph.D., P.E., Presidential/Fellow/Life Member ASHRAE, and Max Sherman, Ph.D., Fellow/Life Member ASHRAE, about ASHRAE Standard 241, Control of Infectious Aerosols. The trio discusses the motivation behind developing the newly approved standard, some of the minimum requirements it establishes and how it was approved so quickly. Have any great ideas for the show? Contact the ASHRAE Journal Podcast team at podcast@...

Join Rachel Romero, P.E., Member ASHRAE; Theresa Weston, Ph.D., Member ASHRAE; and Philip W. Fairey, Life Member ASHRAE, as they talk residential applications and ASHRAE’s contributions to the residential space. The discussion also includes insights into ASHRAE Standards 90.2 and 62.2, IEQ, resiliency and decarbonization in residential buildings. Have any great ideas for the show? Contact the ASHRAE Journal Podcast team at podcast@ashrae.org. Interested in reaching the global HVACR en...

Join Robert Bean, Fellow ASHRAE, and Peter Simmonds, Ph.D., Fellow Life Member of ASHRAE, as they discuss thermal comfort in buildings and the application of ASHRAE Standard 55, Thermal Environmental Conditions for Human Occupancy, in real-world settings. Have any great ideas for the show? Contact the ASHRAE Journal Podcast team at podcast@ashrae.org. Interested in reaching the global HVACR engineering leaders with one program? Contact Greg Martin at 01 678-539-1174

Join Andrew Persily, Ph.D., Fellow/Life Member ASHRAE, and Meghan McNulty, P.E., Member ASHRAE, as they discuss disconnects between design intent and performance when ventilating buildings and how ventilation theory and research play out in real-world applications. NIST Indoor Carbon Dioxide Metric Analysis Tool: https://pages.nist.gov/CONTAM-apps/webapps/CO2Tool/#/ Persily and McNulty have provided additional reading resources on ventilation: Persily, A. (2023). "Standard 62.1’s Ventilation...

ASHRAE’s Manager of Codes, Emily Toto, and Assistant Manager of Standards, Thomas Loxley, speak with Marcus Hassen, P.E., Chair of SSPC 90.4; and Bob McFarlane and Terry Rodgers, founding members of SSPC 90.4; about data centers’ energy efficiencies as well as the committee's latest publication: Standard 90.4-2022. Interested in reaching the global HVACR engineering leaders with one program? Contact Greg Martin at 01 678-539-1174 | gmartin@ashrae.org.

Current 2022–2023 ASHRAE President Farooq Mehboob is spotlighted in this episode, which was recorded live at the 2023 AHR Expo in Atlanta, Ga. This interview covers Farooq’s rich life experience as a building science engineer and consultant, which started in his native country of Pakistan in the 70s­—a time of great civil and political unrest—and also speaks to pressing industry trends like decarbonization, AI in building systems, and the important groundwork accomplished at COP27 in Egypt la...

The impact of engineering on humanity cannot be overstated. We speak with two engineers who with a group of partners on the ground in Peru created a system to heat the homes of people who live high in the Andean regions of Peru. These residents face severe cold temperatures during the winter, so for them, this work is not about the engineering involved, but rather it is a matter of survival. Interested in reaching the global HVACR engineering leaders with one program? Contact Greg Martin at ...

How do the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) impact ASHRAE members and the HVAC&R industry as a whole? Join Alice Yates, director of government affairs for ASHRAE, and Matthew Young, manager of government affairs, as they give an overview of the bills and discuss the breadth of their funding. Interested in reaching the global HVACR engineering leaders with one program? Contact Greg Martin at 01 678-539-1174 | gmartin@ashrae.org.

You’re only out of school a few years and you’re excited to join the HVAC&R industry: Great jobs, great profession, great community, good money. But when you break into the industry, you discover that—in many cases—you’d be among the youngest in the company, let alone in the room. Turn off or great opportunity? Join Elizabeth Primeau, Associate Member ASHRAE; and Niss Feiner, C.E.T., CHD, Student Branch Advisor Member ASHRAE, in a conversation with ASHRAE Journal Assistant Editor Kaitlyn ...

Don’t miss Dr. Zoltan Nagy, the director of the Intelligent Environments Laboratory at The University of Texas at Austin, and Dr. Rania Labib, who established the Artificial Intelligence and High-Performance Buildings Lab at Prairie View A&M University, as they talk with ASHRAE Journal Editor John Falcioni on the opportunities and challenges that come with artificial intelligence/machine learning in building design and operations. They also discuss the questions facing the industry in acc...

Join three ASHRAE volunteer leaders from Mexico—Jeannette Hay, the current president of the Monterrey chapter; Eleazar Rivera, past president of the Monterrey chapter; and Cuauhtemoc Aguirre, the president of the Guadalajara chapter—in a conversation with ASHRAE Journal Editor John Falcioni on the impact of Latinos on the HVAC&R industry in North and South America… and much more! Interested in reaching the global HVACR engineering leaders with one program? Contact Greg Martin at 01 678-5...