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Focus on Large Building Design and Facility Management

ATLANTA – ASHRAE has announced a call for papers for its 2013 Winter Conference in Dallas, Texas, Jan. 26-30.

The Conference’s technical program will focus on core HVAC&R tracks and, with the re-branding of ASHRAE highlighting its efforts in building technology, the Conference presents timely tracks on Large Building Design and Facility Management.

The Large Building Design track seeks papers that highlight the opportunities presented to the design and construction team with “larger than life” facilities and systems throughout the world.

The Facility Management track seeks papers that address energy conservation measurement case studies; new and revived management tools, e.g. building information modeling; increased technologies for automation systems; and overall facility management with an eye toward financial management.

The Energy Conservation track seeks papers that will highlight case studies and research that expand on the simple to the complex energy savings measures being implemented in today’s and tomorrow’s designs. This track addresses how designs are using more techniques to reduce energy with the use of heat wheels and pipes, solar hot water, PV systems, higher efficient equipment and many other concepts that are pushing to be standard design practice.

The Standards, Guidelines and Codes track brings to the forefront ASHRAE’s work in standards and their intent on improving the built environment and its systems. Papers in this track seek to illustrate the changes to the standards and guidelines, their projected path and good design techniques to meet or exceed the standards.

The 2013 ASHRAE Winter Conference program includes additional tracks on HVAC&R Systems and Equipment, HVAC&R Fundamentals and Applications, Refrigeration and a Special Interest Track, which will be determined on the basis of papers and programs received.

“I am excited about the potential of the Special Interest Track developing into a mini-conference within the main Conference, covering the Industrial and Manufacturing sector that is very prevalent in Texas,” Wade Conlan, an ASHRAE member who serves as chair of the technical program for the Conference, said. “The Conference seeks to draw on the expertise from those markets to present design, construction and operational case studies and generally accepted practices to the Conference attendees.”

ASHRAE offers two types of paper submissions:

• Conference Paper Abstracts due March 19, 2012.  Authors submit an abstract of the paper (400 words or less) for review by March 19.  After acceptance, papers will be due July 9, 2012.  These “final” papers undergo a single-blind review, are submitted as a PDF and have an eight single-spaced page maximum length.
• Full Technical Papers due April 16, 2012.  Papers submitted for review must be both technically accurate and clearly written. These papers undergo a rigorous double-blind review and can be a maximum of 30 double-spaced pages.

To submit a Conference paper abstract and for more information about submitting a technical paper and the tracks, go to www.ashrae.org/Dallas.

Held in conjunction with the 2013 Winter Conference is the AHR Exposition, Jan. 28-30, 2013, which is expected to attract more than 40,000 visitors and exhibitors.

ASHRAE, founded in 1894, is a building technology society with more than 50,000 members worldwide. The Society and its members focus on building systems, energy efficiency, indoor air quality and sustainability within the industry. Through research, standards writing, publishing and continuing education, ASHRAE shapes tomorrow’s built environment today.