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Listing of 2019 Webinars.
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The Ten Most Frequently Asked Questions About HEPA Filters
Few people consider, or understand, the filtration technology that is protecting the air we breathe everyday. One of the most mysterious and misunderstood filters is perhaps the most critical and frequently utilized in bio-safety and basic research applications, the High Efficiency Particulate Absolute filter, better known as the HEPA filter. The reason for this confusion is not known, however we can all help to fix that.
Over my career in this business, I am consistently asked the same ten questions regarding HEPA filters at use in bio-safety and research labs, micro-electronics, pharmaceutical companies and hospitals. Not only are these questions frequently asked across the country, the answers are commonly not-known by so called “subject mater experts”, aggressive sales people trying to sell you something, and folks who have been in the industry for many, many years.
The goal of this talk is to dispel the 10 most potentially costly or dangerous myths about HEPA filters. Why and when do we need them? How do they work? How, and why, do we test them? This short talk will arm you with the facts necessary to design, or retro-fit, a facility or lab, understand and schedule your testing, and enhance your lab’s
Speaker Matthew Crouch, Camfil North America Inc Date and Time
Matthew Crouch, Camfil North America Inc
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Bringing Sustainability to the Students: A Mechanically Focused Post-Secondary Case Study
Simon Fraser University’s (SFU) strategic vision is “to be Canada’s engaged university defined by its dynamic integration of innovative education, cutting-edge research, and far-reaching community engagement”
Established in 1965, SFU has become one of the world’s leading teaching and research universities with vibrant campuses in Vancouver, Burnaby, and Surrey. The new Sustainable Energy and Environmental Engineering Building (SE3P) set out to align the University’s strategic vision, need for increase learning space including interactive labs, and community outreach space, all while achieving sustainability targets and LEED Gold Certification. SE3P boasts of five storeys, 15,000 square-meters and will house an interdisciplinary engineering stream and research space for the growing clean technology and sustainable energy sector.
Further examination of the SE3P building as a case study displays evidence of innovative sustainability, and cutting-edge design with focus on thermal comfort & occupant health, sustainable engineering, and creating an interactive learning lab for future generations of clean building engineers.
During the design phase a detailed thermal comfort analysis was completed of the five-level atrium verifying the use of in floor radiant heating & cooling with displacement ventilation. Air quality monitoring systems will be installed in all labs for Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC’s), Total Volatile Organic Compounds (TVOCs), Particulates and more. The intent of this system is not energy savings but rather occupant health with significant energy savings being a byproduct of that goal. Electronic Filtration will also be used on all air handling systems with an effective MERV 15 rating; which is above the LEED Gold Certification targets.
Examples of Sustainable Engineering Strategies used:
•Significant laboratory ventilation energy load reduction through air quality monitoring.
•Administrative ventilation air is reused on the Laboratory side, reducing total energy for Lab ventilation conditioning.
•Low velocity air handlers with approximately 400 fpm coil and casing sizing complete with bypass around coils.
•Reduction of pump energy through High Delta T, complete with temperature reset on all systems to continually maximize performance.
•Free cooling from the open loop cooling tower during shoulder seasons.
•Low pressure laboratory variable air volume (VAV) boxes.
•Laboratory high efficiency run around loop to recover approximately 60% of the exhaust air heat.
The buildings intention is to create a type of learning lab for engineering students. The mechanical room will be accessible to students as will the control system graphics. Students are being challenged to create an app connecting the building systems and displaying a real time energy dashboard. Research involvement is being sought through roughed-in PV panels on the roof. Video walls located at the entrances will display the energy and system graphics.
The project has also made use of a Design-Assist approach to the Mechanical contract, which has significantly reduced overall change-orders and has kept the project on schedule.
AME Consulting Group was thrilled to be part of the collaborative design team for this unique project achieving innovative sustainability, cutting edge design, breakthrough technologies, and interactive building labs, while impacting the education of current and future generations of clean building engineers.
Speaker Date and Time
Kevin Shea, The AME Consulting Group
Kevin Shea, The AME Consulting Group
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Total System Approach to Designing Economically Viable Sustainable Exhaust Systems for Critical Environment Application
Total System Approach to Designing Economically Viable Sustainable Exhaust Systems for Critical Environment Application
Demonstrate different design approaches that can reduce energy costs of operating laboratory exhaust fans.
Speaker Doug Ross, MK Plastics Date and Time
Doug Ross, MK Plastics
March 13, 2019
Wednesday, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
The successful delivery of sustainable laboratory projects depends heavily on the ability to reach agreement between a broad and diverse set of stakeholders and decision makers. These can include institutional or private client management teams, funding/grant organizations, regulatory bodies, scientific/administrative groups, facility management groups, the general public, and Authorities Having Jurisdiction.
This presentation will put forward an approach and specific strategies which can be used by laboratory project teams in order to bring alignment around sustainability and integrated design.
We will touch on: types of formal and informal interaction that can be used, the roles and responsibilities which need to be filled, as well as principles and rules of engagement that can be deployed on all sizes of projects. The session will highlight specific examples from past sustainable laboratory projects delivered by our practice. It will also touch on international best practices and industry tools associated with decision management.
Although focused primarily on design phase methodologies, we will also explore project delivery models and construction phase communication techniques which will ensure alignment between project stakeholders and increase the likelihood of meeting sustainability targets.
Speaker Kevin Humeniuk, Architecture49 Inc. Date and Time
Kevin Humeniuk, Architecture49 Inc.
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
But CFD is so expensive. How do I make it cheaper?
The objective of this presentation is to discuss how CFD studies of varying complexity can be performed depending on the requirements and budget of he project.
Speaker Dianthé van Weerden, RWDI Date and Time
Dianthé van Weerden, RWDI
Wednesday May 15, 2019
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Monitoring Air Quality of Indoor Environments
Growing pressure to reduce GHG emissions has made reducing building energy consumption a top priority and increasing attention has been devoted to making buildings more energy efficient and sustainable. However, with the average North American spending over 90% of their time indoors, attention must also be given to the effects buildings can have on occupant health and wellbeing. Labs are an interesting building type from both an energy and health perspective, as they are frequently some of the highest energy consumers and often contain potentially hazardous materials and equipment that can degrade indoor environmental quality (IEQ) if not properly managed. Indoor air quality (IAQ) is a component of IEQ that can be readily degraded by several design and operation factors in labs, such as the presence of volatile toxic substances and combustion equipment, varying hygrothermal conditions and ventilation requirements, and the processes of the experiments and activities occurring in these spaces.
Accordingly, this webinar focuses on IAQ and the resulting occupant health considerations in labs. An overview of IAQ will be provided to outline the different types of indoor air pollutants and their exposure limits, in addition to emerging building standards (e.g., WELL) that are directing attention towards designing for occupant health. The impact of building design and operation parameters on IAQ will then be discussed, in addition to lab- specific case studies. Different sensor-based monitoring techniques and methods to assess IAQ will be reviewed to provide practical methods to help understand and maintain or improve IAQ and occupant health in this building type.
Learning Objectives: 1. Understand the fundamentals of air quality in buildings. 2. Understand the recommended exposure limits for indoor air pollutants. 3. Understand lab-specific IAQ and health considerations. 4. Understand monitoring techniques and methods to assess IAQ.
Speaker Sandra Dedesko, RWDI Date and Time
Sandra Dedesko, RWDI
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Living Building Challenge and ACT: Addressing Laboratory Buildings Holistically
My Green Lab has Partnered with the International Living Future Institute to address the critical issues of waste, energy and water consumption in the Life Sciences industry. My Green Lab has developed the first-ever eco-label for lab products, called ACT (which stands for accountability, consistency and transparency), which provides consistent, comprehensive, and easily understandable information that laboratories can use to assess – and ultimately reduce – the environmental impact of the products they use. The ACT label has been integrated into the Living Building Challenge Requirements for laboratory spaces and is now used by laboratories and Life Science procurement professionals to ensure healthy, efficient products in the laboratory market. Join this session to gain a deeper understanding of how Living Building Challenge, My Green Lab and the ACT label are transforming the supply chain for laboratory equipment and materials and how you can leverage these tools to improve your own lab or laboratory projects.
Speaker
Allison Paradise, CEO, My Green Lab
James Connelly, LFA, LEED AP, Vice President Products & Strategic Growth, International Living Future Institute
Date and Time
Wednesday, July 10, 2019
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Roadmap for Designing Net Zero Labs
“Roadmap for Designing Net Zero Labs,” serves as a learning tool to develop and design energy efficient Laboratories, utilizing a three-step approach. In addition to the approach, the presentation provides a substantial amount of details and systems which can be implemented to achieve the NET ZERO result.
Step One considers utilizing building configuration, planning, orientation and massing to have more connected responses to the environment.
Step Two proposes the implementation of a low energy use baseline through the energy conservation measures and operational protocols to reduce the building energy demands.
Step Three addresses the use of renewable systems to provide the remainder of the energy required for the building.
Planning and developing Laboratories with a Net Zero approach will result in the most cost-effective operational approach for a facility.
Speaker
Jacob Tsimanis, IDS Group
Date and Time
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Slashing Vivarium Energy Use with the Newly Issued CCAC Guidelines on Air Quality Monitoring & Control
The largest source of a vivarium’s energy consumption and carbon emissions is the significant use of outside air to provide high air changes per hour (ACH) dilution ventilation. In the past, a prescriptive approach to ventilation in the form of a requirement of 15 to 20 ACH was a part of the CCAC guidelines making it difficult to significantly reduce the energy use in these facilities, at least in Canada. However, changes have now been made made to the CCAC guidelines in the form of a recently issued addenda that allows significant reductions in vivarium ventilation rates, and thus energy use, through the use of real time vivarium air quality monitoring and airflow control. This webinar will detail this performance based CCAC addenda and the specific approaches and requirements it lays out to reduce vivarium airflow rates as well as the air quality parameters that need to be measured and the air quality levels that need to be maintained to provide clean air conditions in a vivarium. This talk will also review one example of a technology approach that meets the new CCAC requirements in a cost-effective manner to provide significant energy savings. Some quantitative case studies of past US projects and a sample ROI analysis will also be presented .
Speaker
Gordon Sharp, Chairman of Aircuity
Date and Time
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
How Lean Principals can Deliver High Performance Labs
Murray introduced the U of W to Lean Project Delivery (LPD) to deliver the $80M Richardson College for the Environment development that included a Science Labortory Building, Student Residence and Daycare. A new approach was needed, as the project had high expectations for value, was over budget and had very tight time constraints. The LPD approach worked, we delivered a LEED Gold facility that is one of North Americas most energy efficient labortory facilities, at 60% less energy. Based upon the success of these projects, LPD has become the preferred project delivery method at the U of W.
Speaker
Murray Guy, Shift2Lean
Date and Time
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Biological Safety Cabinets – From selection to installation and to operation – Ensuring you have the right information to maximize efficiencies in your lab
Class II biosafety cabinets (BSCs) are ventilated work stations providing personal, product and environmental protection. However, proper selection, installation and on-going use of these important devices are sometimes incompletely understood.
Selection requires a matching of performance requirements to BSC capabilities. The question of whether the cabinet should be externally exhausted significantly affects operating costs, performance stability, and on-going maintenance. But the process of determining the need for external exhaust can be insufficient. Current guidelines provide helpful blueprints for navigating this process.
Where and how a BSC is placed within the laboratory affects its performance and maintenance. A well located cabinet provides more reliable and consistent personal and product protection. An optimally installed cabinet in a good location is easier to regularly maintain, which reduces downtime and can extend the life of the cabinet.
Speaker
Dave Phillips, Thermo Fisher Scientific
Date and Time
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Aging Environmental Rooms – A Sustainability Opportunity?
Life Science research and production buildings all have Environmental Rooms of differing ages and types. Critical to research and production these rooms offer precision temperature and humidity conditions to provide researchers the environment they require for their work, or in some cases for storage of these products.
The often overlooked fact is that these rooms are very energy intensive, often use CFC or HFC based refrigerants, and over time they may not be performing as well expected due to calibration and maintenance issues.
This presentation will provide an overview on the impact Environmental Rooms have on a building, and opportunities that existing to improve their overall performance, lower energy consumption, and leverage low GWP (global warming potential) products that have recently been commercialized.
Attendees will receive an audit checklist and savings calculator to assist in determining the upgrade opportunities that existing in their facility.
Speaker
Jeff Mumford, Labworks International
Date and Time
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST