DOL Featured Speaker is David N. Schurk, DES, CEM, LEED-AP, CDSM, CWEP, CIAQM, SFP.
Mr Schurk is an ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer and Instructor for the Humidity Control I & II professional development training courses. Previously, he chaired the American Society of Healthcare Engineering (ASHE) Sustainability and Decarbonization Leadership Task Force. With over 40 years of experience, David has contributed significantly to HVAC systems design and analysis across diverse sectors, specializing in healthcare and aerospace environmental control and air quality. His expertise is recognized through numerous ASHRAE Journal articles, frequent speaking engagements both domestic and internationally, and acclaim as an authority in dehumidification analysis, system design, component selection, and building integration. He can be reached at 920-530-7677 or [email protected]
- Hospitals are among the biggest energy consumers in the country when considering how they are run and the number of people who use them. They are open 24 hours a day and have sophisticated energy needs, such as code mandated air change rates and temperatures along with specialized HVAC systems. Yet of all the challenges facing the nation’s health care system, one of the most prevalent — yet solvable — is its overwhelming energy consumption.
- Heat recovery-chiller systems aim to capture energy that would otherwise be wasted to the atmosphere. It is possible to capture the rejected heat from the condenser and use it to produce hot water for use in the hospital, therefore overall system efficiencies can be significantly increased. In addition, heat recovered from the building can be used to offset wasteful reheat, which can contribute to over 60% of a large hospitals natural gas energy bill.
- Recovering heat by using heat recovery chiller systems can drastically reduce fossil fuel use. In addition to the environmental benefits, this has advantages for building management in the form of lower operating costs.
- Learning Objective:
- • Discuss the various energy consuming “processes” for a typical large hospital.
• Explain what reheat is and why it’s a “necessary evil” for most large hospitals.
• Demonstrate the basics of chiller heat-recovery (HR), how the HR chiller is sized and how it can be both easily and economically integrated into the overall central plant design.
• Explore the life-cycle economics of chiller HR with in real-world operational scenarios, analyzed using various electricity and natural gas utility rate structures.
• Show the “green” contributions of chiller HR through a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
• Talk about HR chiller maintenance, life expectancy, and other cost-of-ownership concerns.
- The Advanced Energy Design Guide for Large Hospitals is an ASHRAE publication designed to provide strategies and recommendations for achieving 50% energy savings over the minimum code requirements of ANSI/ASHRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1-2004, Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings. The Guide provides user-friendly, how-to design guidance and efficiency recommendations for large hospitals, showing how reliable technologies and design philosophies can be used to reduce energy use. In essence, the guide provides design teams a methodology for achieving energy savings goals that are financially feasible, operationally workable, and otherwise readily achievable.
- This seminar is intended as a “primer” for those healthcare design and facility professionals who may not have had time yet to review the ASHRAE Design Guide and its recommendations in detail. It will cover various HVAC technologies and systems that have been demonstrated to produce substantial energy savings, and will qualify the financial aspects of those savings to a typical hospital facility. Many of the recommendations in the guide can be applied equally to new construction as well as add-on/retrofit or energy upgrade projects.
- Presentation Objectives:
- 1. Define the “how” and “why” of energy consumption in a typical large hospital facility in (Your City). Identify avenues where the facility professional can invest limited financial resources in order to achieve the greatest energy savings and the quickest ROI.
2. Describe some of the inefficiencies inherent in various hospital environmental processes and learn how to mitigate the energy penalties through improved HVAC system design.
3. Understand the energy and operational benefits associated with various HVAC system types, such as chiller heat-recovery, airside energy-recovery, dedicated outdoor air delivery systems, chilled beams, fan arrays, desiccant dehumidification, condensing boilers, pressure independent control valves, etc.
Presentation 3: Keeping Doc’s Cool, Dry & Happy in the Operating Room…Can it be Accomplished?
- Many rooms within hospitals require special design considerations because of intensified infection concerns, high air-change rates, special equipment, unique procedures, high internal air-conditioning loads and the presence of immunocompromised patients. In no other healthcare space does the design of the Heating-Ventilating and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) system take on more importance than in an Operating Room (OR), where its sole purposes is to minimize infection, maintain staff comfort and contribute to improving the environment of patient care.
- Learning Objectives:
- • Discuss how minimum code requirements for temperature and relative humidly align with the “real-word” expectations of the OR surgeon and staff.
• Learn why Doc’s and Nurses are so rarely comfortable in the OR, even in modern (and expensive) healthcare facilities.
• Understand what Doc’s and Nurses really mean when they say “make it colder” in the OR.
• Realize the roll both temperature and relative humidity (in combination) play in maintaining both comfortable and healthy OR environments.
• Come to appreciate the struggle Hospital Facility Professionals face when tasked to provide Doc’s and Nurses with comfortable (cool & dry) OR conditions. Learn the limits of existing hospital HVAC systems in producing the desired results.
• Recognize new and emerging HVAC technologies that can maintain precise OR comfort control while also helping minimize the risk of Surgical Site Infections (SSI) and Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs), which together contribute greatly to increased healthcare costs and reductions in hospital productivity and profitability.
Other Presentations:
There will be an AEP utility incentives presentation by TAMMY C STAFFORD | AEP EE & CONSUMER PROGRAMS MGR. Their latest program is mostly focused on residential buildings.
Location:
Location: Days Inn in Flatwoods, WV. Centrally located halfway between Charleston and Morgantown. 350 Days Dr, I-79, Flatwoods Exit 67, Sutton, WV 26601-9208.
Hotel Rooms
We have a group rate at the hotel. King rooms for $114.95 pre-tax & $128.75 after tax per night and 2 Double Bed rooms for $109.95 pre-tax & $123.15 after tax per night.
Go to https://www.wyndhamhotels.com/days-inn/sutton-west-virginia/days-hotel-sutton-flatwoods/overview and put in your dates of stay along with the group code 050425WVA to make your reservations online. Block expires on 04/20/2025 or the rooms are all reserved, whichever comes first.
Or call their front desk at 1-866-700-7284, tell them your dates of stay and that you are with the WV ASHRAE room block.
General Attendee Registration
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