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REGION X DISTINGUISHED LECTURERS (DL'S)
Tracey Jumper, CCP
Tracey is Director of Commissioning - Special Projects at Microsoft (formally Corporate Director of Commissioning at EMCOR Services Mesa Energy Systems). She has 22 years of experience in construction, mechanical systems engineering and maintenance services and has been identified as a specialist in commissioning and improving existing buildings. She previously owned her own Cx consulting firm and managed two others before that, with Cx projects across the U.S.
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Tracey is on the technical subcommittee that developed the new ASHRAE Standard 230-2022 – The Commissioning Process for Existing Buildings (Nov ’22). She also is a subject matter expert credited in The Building Commissioning Handbook 3rd Ed. and editor of The BCxA’s Best Practices for Existing Building Commissioning.
In 2022, she was recognized as one of Engineered Systems’ 20 Women to Watch in HVAC. She has been honored as one of Consulting-Specifying Engineer magazine’s Top 40 Under 40 (2020) and recognized by her peers for outstanding service to the commissioning industry, having received the BCA President’s Award (2016).
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Besides facilities commissioning, Tracey is a philanthropic eco-adventurer. In April of 2022, she raised the top funds for CoolEarth.org by completing an unassisted adventure challenge of riding an 86CC monkey bike (small motorcycle) through the rainforest and over the Andes on some of the most treacherous terrain on the planet.
Tracey is the Region X Government Affairs Regional Vice Chair, a member of the ASHRAE Southern Nevada Chapter and has been an active member across five different ASHRAE regions since 2003. She holds a bachelor’s degree in architectural engineering from Penn State.
TOPICS
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ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 230-2022
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The Business of Existing Building Commissioning & Troubleshooting HVAC Systems
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Post-Pandemic Upgrading & Re-Commissioning of Existing Buildings, in Practice
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Decarbonization: Lessons from the Amazon Rainforest
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How to Write & Perform Commissioning Functional Testing for Existing Lab & Clean Room Systems
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How to Write & Perform Commissioning Functional Testing for Existing Chiller Plants
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How to Write & Perform Commissioning Functional Testing for Existing Boiler Plants
KARINE LEBLANC
Karine Leblanc received her bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Ecole de Technologie Superieure, a public engineering school in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, who was founded in 1974 and that is part of the University of Quebec. She was awarded an honorary medal as part of the 50th anniversary of the University of Quebec for her exceptional contribution to the institution.
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She is the West Modular Solutions Sales Manager for Daikin Applied and has been an active member of ASHRAE since she was a student.
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She has served on the ASHRAE Society Board of Director from 2014-2017 and became the first female Region X Director Regional Chair since 1959. In 2009-2010, she was the 2nd female and youngest President of the chapter of Southern California which was founded in 1930.
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She has received the Louise & Bill Holladay chapter Distinguished service award, the Region X Director’s Cup award, the Regional Award of Merit and the Distinguished Service Award.
TOPICS
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How to use Emotional Intelligence to become a better leader professionally and personally
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Everyone Communicates, Few Connect
Daniel Hahne
Daniel Hahne began his HVAC industry career in 1985 when he accepted his first position working as an estimator for the HVAC representative organization, Norman S. Wright Co. SW, Phoenix. After years of estimating, Dan’s profession transitioned into contractor sales before he accepted a position at a newly established representative company in 2000, Air Specialty Products (ASP), currently known as ThermAir Systems. At ASP he learned how to support and sell to design development projects for large commercial and institutional buildings.
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In 2008, Dan lobbied for and became ASP’s Engineering Salesperson. Leading industry manufacturers provided the educational resources for him to learn about high-performance building and types of equipment available to increase mechanical system efficiency as he became a regional resource for projects designed with decoupled active and passive hydronic systems, thermally stratified environments and 100% outside air systems.
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Gaining market share through his educational approach, Varitec approached Dan to join the firm as a corporate “educator”, a role he accepted and advanced in the Desert Southwest as Varitec’s Director of High-Performance HVAC Solutions. During the pandemic, Dan created a webinar series based on ASHRAE’s Position Document on Infectious Aerosols. These webinars drew significantly from ASHRAE’s Epidemic Task Force website and other industry resources to address the nature and behavior of infectious aerosols in occupied zones and what protocols and products are available to reduce the risk of infection.
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In 2019, two professional engineers invited Dan to co-author two articles for Engineered Systems (ES) Magazine, “Debunking the Myths of Chilled Beams.” This unique opportunity allowed him to expand his educational platform nationally by co-authoring and authoring five more articles of various topics for ES Magazine.
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Dan has been an active member of ASHRAE since 2009. During his membership years, he has served as Chair of Sustainability for ASHRAE’s Central Arizona Chapter, and was a featured speaker for his local chapter on Fan System Effect, Debunking the Myth of Chilled Beams and on Thermally Stratified Environments. He was also a voting member on ASHRAE’s Standard 200-2015 committee on Methods of Testing Chilled Beams and is currently a member of ASHRAE’s T1.7P Committee for ongoing commissioning.
In December of 2021, to more effectively advance MEP solutions for high-performance buildings, he joined the AIA-Arizona Chapter as an Allied member and became an AIA CES accredited provider to encourage architects to become more involved in dialog with their mechanical engineers. Dan currently has fourteen AIA CES accredited presentations on a variety of topics..
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As a Bachelor of Fine Arts graduate of the Slade School of Art, University College London and holding a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Sculpture from Boston University and taught fine art courses part-time for the Maricopa County Community Colleges. Dan’s educational background is uncommon in the industry and gives him a uniquely creative perspective within the HVAC mechanical engineering realm.
TOPICS
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ASHRAE Standard 241: Control of Infectious Aerosols
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Psychrometrics Deconstructed Part #1
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Psychrometrics Deconstructed Part #2
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Fundamentals of HVAC Systems
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100% Outside Air Systems – The Importance of Ventilation & Design Considerations
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Optimizing Laboratory Operational Efficiency with Chilled Beams
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Health & Well-Being: One Breath at a Time
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Toward Healthier Buildings: Humidification
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Thermally Stratified Environments
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Medium Pressure Variable Air Volume (VAV) Systems
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100% Outside Air Systems - Passive Radiant Cooling & Heating Technology
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100% Outside Air Systems: Variable Refrigerant Technology
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100% OSA Systems – Active & Passive Chilled Beams
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Underfloor Air Systems – Principles, Design and New Technology
Shona O'Dea
SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL (SOM)
1 MARITIME PLAZA, SUITE 500
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111
(415) 352-5829
Shona O’Dea is the Director of Sustainability for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), based in the San Francisco studio.
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Throughout her career, O’Dea has been dedicated to energy efficiency and indoor environmental quality, providing innovation and technical excellence in sustainable building design and operation. She advises clients about sustainable goal-setting and uses building simulation to help designers quantify energy savings and understand the interactions of building design with the mechanical systems and with the environment. Beyond building simulation, O’Dea brings her passion to holistic building performance master planning with a focus on reducing the carbon footprint and water use of building portfolios, while also ensuring occupants can thrive in healthy spaces. Shona holds a BS in Building Services Engineering and an MS in Sustainability, Innovation and Technology from the Dublin Institute of Technology as well as an MS in Technology from Purdue University.
TOPICS
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Finding Vision through IAQ
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Considerations for Continuous Air Quality Monitoring
Peter Rumsey, P.E., ASHRAE Fellow, AEE Fellow
Peter is widely recognized as a global leader in energy efficiency and sustainable building system
design. Peter founded Point Energy Innovations in 2014 and is its CEO and Chief Design Innovator.
Before that he founded Rumsey Engineers in 1998 which was acquired by Integral Group in 2009.
He served as Integral’s West Coast Director and Chief Technology Officer.
He has consulted to venture capital firms, successful start-ups and has worked worldwide: in North
and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa. He has directed the design of 41 LEED Platinum
projects, 10 COTE Top Ten projects, 3 Living Building Challenge projects, and 22 Net Zero projects.
Peter has been responsible for many key innovations in energy efficient design and analysis,
including pioneering the use of chilled beams, efficient outside air systems that eliminate reheat,
radiant cooling systems, low pressure drop distribution systems and the use of guaranteed
performance contracts for HVAC systems.
His designs include the world's highest scoring LEED Platinum CI, the first certified Net Zero
project, the world's first LEED Platinum pre-certified data center, the first Net Zero laboratory, the
first LEED Gold microchip manufacturing plant, the first radiant cooled building in India for Infosys, the high-profile greening of The Empire State Building, and the largest Zero-Energy public building in the U.S. One of his major areas of innovation is making green affordable - creating prominent examples of green buildings that are affordable and practical. In 2012 the Association of Energy Engineers named him “Renewable Energy Innovator of the Year.” His design of the Packard Foundation Net Zero HQ won ASHRAE’s prestigious Award of Engineering Excellence --only given 4 other times in ASHRAE’s 100-year history.
Peter is a graduate of UC Berkeley and has taught a graduate level engineering course on low energy buildings at Stanford for over 15 years
TOPICS
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Building Decarbonization
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Energy Efficiency, the Vast Untapped Potential
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Making Sustainability Affordable
DEVIN A. ABELLON, P.E. (HONORARY REGION X MEMBER)
Devin Abellon, P.E. is the Vice President of Engineering Sales for Pac West Sales. He has 25 years of experience in the HVAC and plumbing industries with a focus on high-performance and sustainable building design and construction. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara and is a registered professional engineer in California and Arizona. He is an active member of both ASPE and ASHRAE, and serves as an ASHRAE Vice President, ASHRAE Region X Representative, Programs Subcommittee Chair for ASHRAE TC 6.5 and as an ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer. He is also a member of ASHRAE’s Conferences and Expositions Committee.
TOPICS
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Embedded Tube Radiant Systems to Maximize LEED Points
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Specifying Radiant Heating and Cooling Systems
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The (un)Ethical Engineer: a study in principle and practice
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Hydronic Piping with PEX: Pros and Pitfalls