History

2019

January Meeting It was held Tuesday, January 8, 2019 at the Holiday inn in Burlington the speaker was Luke Leung, P.E., ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer. Speaker’s background: Luke Leung is a Director of the Sustainability Engineering Studio for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP. His work includes Burj Khalifa, the world’s current tallest man-made structure, winning multiple …

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2018

First Hamilton Chapter Meeting of 2018 was held Tuesday Jan 16th, 2018 at the Holiday Inn in Burlington. Topic was the New Energy Requirement in the Ontario Building Code effective Jan 1st, 2018 This event drew record attendance with over 60 registrants! The presentation by Patrick Andres was very extensive and well-received. The speaker, Patrick Andres, MASc., P.Eng., CPHC  …

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2017

January’s 2017 Chapter Meeting was at tour at McMaster University of the McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind LIVE Lab. This new lab consists of a 12,000 square foot addition that was constructed to sit atop the existing Psychology Building. VRM was retained as the prime electrical. Mechanical consultant because unlike traditional project delivery models, the owner …

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2016

With a New Year 2016, the January 2016 meeting was held at the University Club of McMaster 1280 Main Street West Alumni Memorial Hall—Building #8 Hamilton, Tuesday, January 12, 2016 with the topic: HVAC Equipment, Building Management Systems, Big Data, and the Internet of Things [IOT. The presentation provided an overview of the underlying technologies and trends …

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2015

The January 2015 Meeting took place Tuesday, January 13, 2015 and featured CO2 Refrigeration Systems. The speaker was Andre Patenaude, Director – CO2 Business Development, Emerson Climate Technologies. Andre Patenaude brought us some of his 30 years of marketing, sales and technical service experience working directly with end users, contractors, wholesalers and Andre’s presentation covered the introduction …

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2014

January Meeting: Tuesday, January 7, 2014 Meeting was entitled the “Journey of the Senses” Tour at Niagara College Wine Visitor and Education Centre Teaching Winery & Teaching Brewery The experience commenced in our teaching vinyards discussion covered our growing season, the Ontario wine industry, the Canadian wine industry and how we grow premium grapes right here …

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2013

In January 2013, the chapter had a new addition to our Executive, Frank Mesicek, C.E.T., PMP Who has accepted the position of Programs/ C.T.T.C./T.E.G.A. Chair. Frank has been an ASHRAE member since 1986. He became registered as a Certified Engineering Technologist with OACETT in 1987. In 2000, Frank received PMP (Project Management Professional) designation and followed …

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2012

The January meeting was held Tuesday January 10th, 2012 at Kelsey’s Restaurant 875 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON at 5:30 pm – Social Hour / Cash Bar 6:00 pm – Table Top Demonstration & Buffet Dinner 7:15 – Feature Speakers cost was Chapter Members – $30.00 • Guests – $40.00 • Students – $15.00. The topic was …

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2011

The January 2011 meeting was a follow-up with the McMaster engineering students many of which attended the Sept 2010 meeting. It was held Tuesday, January 11, 2011 at Kelsey’s Restaurant which was walking distance from Mac. The topic was Net-Zero Energy Building Design – a design for a new building at Mac. The featured speakers were a …

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2010

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance 2009 (LEED Canada EB:O&M) LEED® is North America’s most widely recognized green building rating system in the design and construction industry. While LEED® for New Construction and MajorRenovations has been in the Canadian marketplace since 2004, existing buildings have had limited opportunity to quantify …

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