What comes to mind when you think about the word “decarbonization”? Most might immediately picture the electric vehicle and the transportation sector. But what about the sector that leads the U.S. in carbon emissions? According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 2019, commercial and residential buildings led the U.S. in carbon emissions, making…
Tuesday, October 20, 2020 – Wednesday, October 21, 2020 2 Day Virtual Conference Education Topics: Occupant Safety: o Cx’s role in the Post-COVID-19 built environment. o Smoke Control Special Inspections Optimization and Reliability: o Getting the most out of facility Cx o Building Envelope Cx o Monitoring Based Cx o On-site Energy Storage and Renewable Energy…
Great turnout for our first meeting of the 2020-2021 society year! The webinar was viewed by over 90+ and is available to view below. Slides from the presentation can be downloaded below the video.
Thank you to all who came to tour Smith Tower this last week; and a special should out to Unico Properties for being such gracious and knowledgeable hosts! During the tour we saw some of the inner workings of one of the oldest buildings in Seattle including old coal moving machinery and historic elevators. And…
Congratulations to this year’s Chapter TAC winning projects! The applications will move forward to Regional competition and we’ll find out later this month if they move on to Society after this month’s Chapter Regional Conference (CRC). Helen Sommers Building – New Commercial Building Matthew Longsine, PE, WSP Other Design Team Members: Tom Marseille, Charles Chaoleicheep,…
Check out the photos of the ASHRAE Women in Industry event at The Foundry. A networking BINGO game, good food and awesome bar catalyzed conversations and introductions all around. Lester Pereira, Region XI Regional Vice Chair Research Promotion attended the event as well. We raised $565 from the Wine Survivor Challenge raffle to benefit ASHRAE…
The two March Plumbing Illustrated Hands-On workshops were a huge success! The two separate full day courses covered four hours of instructional code requirements and four hours of hands-on assembly of the four basic plumbing systems: vertical wet vent, horizontal wet vent, combination waste-n-vent and circuit vent using 3-D models. A big thanks to McKinstry…
Help College Students Learn about our Industry! The primary role of a Mentor Coordinator is to be a point contact for the volunteers from the multiple local engineering societies. This role is not limited to member societies current officers or to a representative to PSEC but anyone who has enjoyed volunteering at the multi-society Mentor…
10th Annual Central Sound Regional Science and Engineering Fair | Saturday, March 16, 2019 The fair will be hosted this year at Bellevue College. Grand champions at this fair win trips to compete at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF), the world’s largest international pre-college science competition. There are approximately 180 student…
Lessons from Building Air Leakage Testing in Seattle What We’ve Learned and Where We Go From Here As building codes both within the U.S. and across the globe increasingly are focusing on building airtightness as a fundamental piece of the larger sustainable-built-environment strategy. Join us to hear our speakers share their decade of experience with…
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