CRC Tech Session 3 – The Coming Age of a Smart Grid and Smart Buildings

The Coming Age of a Smart Grid and Smart Buildings
The smart grid is coming and in that future era buildings will be interacting even more with the electric utilities.  The communication will be in both directions, with the utility working to balance the grid supply and demand through methods such as signaling requests for demand response measures, real-time price adjustments, etc.  This is a new and evolving field and, while there are some differences in the need for and how a smart grid might function in the various regions of the world, there are some common factors as well.  This seminar provides an overview of the smart grid particularly as it relates to buildings and their systems.
THOMAS M. LAWRENCE, Ph.D., P.E., LEED-AP
 
Dr. Lawrence is the Mechanical Engineering program coordinator with the University of Georgia, and has over 30 years of professional experience.  Before going back for his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue, he spent approximately 20 of those years in industry and consulting.  He was recently named an ASHRAE Fellow and is a Director at Large for ASHRAE. He is a past chair of ASHRAE Technical Committee 2.8, “Building Environmental Impact and Sustainability” and a member of the Special Project Committee that wrote and maintains ASHRAE’s Standard 189.1. He has been an ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer since 2007 and has given presentations and workshops on sustainability related topics in 27 countries around the world.  At the University of Georgia, he teaches courses in HVAC, Green Building Design, Residential Building Design, Professional Practice and Heat Transfer.  His students have placed highly in the ASHRAE Student Design Competition during the past several years in the area of Integrated Sustainable Building Design.
Dr. Lawrence has a B.S. with Highest Distinction honors in Environmental Science from Purdue University (1978), a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Oregon State University (1982) and a second M.S. degree in Engineering Management from Washington University earned in 1989.  He received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University in the spring of 2004 researching the impacts of demand-controlled ventilation on energy consumption and indoor air quality in smaller commercial buildings.
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