2025 February DINNER Meeting

PLEASE READ!!!! THREE IMPORTANT ITEMS!!!!

1 - This is a THURSDAY EVENING MEETING. Dinner will be served at 5pm and the presentation will start at 6pm.

2- The event location is at the Embassy Suites Cleveland Rockside. See address above.

3 - We have to give them a firm head count by EOB 2/14, no later. So sign up early. Registration will close at 5pm on 2/14.

Topic: ASHRAE Standard 189.1 and the International Green Construction Code

ASHRAE, in conjunction with the U.S. Green Building Council and the Illumination Engineers Society, developed Standard 189.1 for the Design of High-Performance Green Buildings with the initial release occurring in 2010. The Standard provides the minimum requirements for a high-performance green building, and was developed with the intent to provide a balance of environmental factors involved with designing, building, and planning for the operation of buildings. Since the initial release, the Standard has continually evolved as a result of changes in the industry and in relation to other Standards such as 90.1 This session provides a detailed summary of the key requirements in this Standard and how it relates to the International Green Construction Code with the 2021 code cycles revisions.

BIO

Dr. Lawrence is the Mechanical Engineering program lead with the University of Georgia, and has nearly 40 years of professional experience. He spent the first 18 years in industry and after going back for his PhD at Purdue he has been at UGA since January 2004. He is the past chair of ASHRAE Technical Committee 2.8 and is a member of the committee that wrote and maintains ASHRAE Standard 189.1 for High Performance Green Buildings. As an ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer, he gives seminars related to high-performance buildings at venues around the world. Dr. Lawrence was named an ASHRAE Fellow in 2017 and was a Director-at-Large on the Board of Directors for ASHRAE from 2016-2019.

Dr. Lawrence has a B.S. with Highest Distinction in Environmental Science from Purdue University (1978), a M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Oregon State University (1982) and a second M.S. degree in Engineering Management from Washington University in 1989. He received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University in the spring of 2004.

NOTE ON THE RESCHEDULING OF THE JANUARY MEETING

Due to a last minute scheduling conflict, the January meeting was canceled and will be rescheduled for some point later this spring.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Embassy Suites Cleveland Rockside, 5800 Rockside Woods Blvd N, Independence, United States