ASHRAE PRESIDENT HITS RIGHT NOTES ON IAQ


Indoor air quality standards have fallen behind during a period of heavy investment in energy efficiency. Engineers attending the ASHRAE Winter Conference in New York sought to redress the balance, reports Ewen Rose


‘There has been an enormous amount spent on energy conservation and outdoor air pollution – but almost nothing on IAQ’ Bill Bahnfleth


T 20 CIBSE Journal March 2014


inkling the keys of a grand piano on the 45th floor of the New York Hilton, ASHRAE president Bill Bahnfleth is clearly a man in his element.


Playing to ASHRAE members and guests


in the lavish presidential suite – and former apartment of hotel legend Conrad Hilton – he could reflect on what executive vice-president Jeff Littleton had earlier dubbed ‘a pivotal, possibly historic meeting’ of the Society.


Bahnfleth reminded the 2,800 delegates


at the 2014 ASHRAE Winter Meeting that New York – and its high-rise buildings, in particular – would not have been possible without the pioneering work of the heating, ventilation, air-conditioning and refrigeration (HVACR) engineers who founded the Society some 119 years earlier. When those first 75 members met, on


January 20 1895, just five blocks away from the Hilton, they had a number of concerns – including whether they should be paid for drawing up engineering designs for architects (some things never change). Today, ASHRAE has 54,000 members worldwide, but Bahnfleth reflected that the goals remain exactly the same.


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