Baxi is the Graduate Award sponsor for the third year.
Last year's winner was Mike Gardner. As his prize Mike travelled to the ASHRAE Winter meeting in January 2011 in Las Vegas

Detailed times at IMechE, Birdcage Walk, London

5.00pm Refreshments
5.30pm Graduate finalists make presentations
6.30pm Presentation by Award Winning Engineer
7.00pm ASHRAE Presidential Lecture followed by Q&A - see below for full details
7.45pm Awards presentations including Student Winner and Rumford Bursaries to runners up, CIBSE Patrons award and CBSD Annual Prize.
8.00pm Free reception in IMechE library for all booked attendees

Past Winners
1996: Kevin Mitchell - South Bank University and AMEC Design
1997: Matthew Pilgrim - Arup
1998: Sophia Kauntz - Arup
1999: Ruth Kelly - Dublin Institute of Technology and AMEC
2000: Lucy Wilde - University of Nottingham and Capita Projects
2001: Ciara Ahern - Dublin Institute of Technology
2002: Richard Kemp - University of Nottingham and Hoare Lea
2003: Dominic Shortland - London South Bank University
2004: Kai Lim - Imperial College and Faber Maunsell
2005: Nigel Banks - Sheffield and Faber Maunsell
2006: Michael Norton - London South Bank University
2007: Richard Unwin - London South Bank University and Overbury
2008: Morwenna Wilson - Arup
2009: Emma Marshall, Northumbria University and RPS Gregory
2010: Michael Gardner, Coventry University and Pick Everard

This year's finalists .....

Mel Allwood, University College London and Arup
Maddie Babaei, Nottingham University and Grontmij
Adam Booth, University of Ulster and self-employed
Nick Darling, University of Northumbria and Shepherd Engineering Services
Tom Davies, University of Liverpool and Nuaire
Tom Hopton, University of the West of England and Buro Happold
Colin Lehane, University of Northumbria and Mott Macdonald
Angela Malynn, London South Bank University and Arup

The finalists, will give a short presentation to the assembled audience and to the judging panel that includes both the ASHRAE President Ron Jarnagin and ASHRAE past president Richard Rooley, CIBSE President Andy Ford, IMechE President Rod Smith and last year's winner Mike Gardner.

Location: Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Birdcage Walk, London (Click here for a map)

To book your place, please visit: http://www.imeche.org/events/L190 and follow the online instructions.

Please book well in advance so that appropriate catering arrangements may be made for the free refreshments at 5pm.

To book your place, please visit: http://www.imeche.org/events/L190 and follow the online instructions.

Location: Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Birdcage Walk, London (Click here for a map)

Ron Jarnagin will speak on the challenges and solutions of sustaining active engineering societies through Leadership.

His premise is that whilst the focus for engineering societies may naturally be on the technical areas the risk is that may miss the true requirement for long-term sustainability - leadership. His view of leadership is that it has to be demonstrated, not just declared. Writing a strategic plan in itself will not demonstrate the kind of activities that are considered actually leading. Leadership is contagious - enthusiasm, movement and drive will enthuse others to move towards leadership roles. And half of the leaders effort should be looking back to ensure the next generation are following - leaders bring people along with them, they don’t go alone.
And, of course, leaders don’t do it alone. Not only do they need their committees, but organizations that lead need partnerships and teamwork to make things happen. And to truly sustain and move forward leadership requires courage and the willingness to take risk.

Ron has three pillars to support future success -
- The first pillar is developing future leadership by identifying and nurturing students and young members - potentially from outside the normal pool of engineers
- The second pillar is to build a recognition of international issues and support for a global engineering membership. The challenges that the engineering community face can not be tackled without thinking and working beyond borders.
- The third and final pillar is to strengthen the industry. The industry must deliver and maintain better buildings for a society that can’t afford the price of today's developments. This means that engineers have to do a better job in their designs, contractors have to do a better job putting designs together, and commissioning agents need to make sure everything works as intended. Together with ensuring that the owners are trained means there is need to go all the way to the end of the process to be successful.

Critically Jarnagin advocates that partnerships between organisations are essential for engineering advancement and sustainability. As Jarnagin says, as a leader "you don’t have to start every parade, you just sometimes have to be able to jump in front of it if it comes by, and that’s okay too in my book."

About the ASHRAE President Ron Jarnagin is a staff scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. His has undertaken many roles in ASHRAE and recently chaired ASHRAE Standard 90.1 committee, Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings, and the committees that wrote three of the Advanced Energy Design Guides. As ASHRAE’s 2011–12 president, he directs the Society’s Board of Directors and oversees the Executive Committee. Jarnagin has an undergraduate degree in accounting from Louisiana State University, and an undergraduate and master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Florida.

Please book well in advance so that appropriate catering arrangements may be made for the free refreshments at 5pm and for the free recption at around 8pm.

To book your place, please visit:http://www.imeche.org/events/L190 and follow the online instructions.

Location: Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Birdcage Walk, London (Click here for a map)

William McCoy, speaking live from Naperville, USA will present on the new ASHRAE Standard 188P, "Prevention of Legionellosis Associated with Building Water Systems", that is intended to address the “what” of controlling the spread of legionellosis. The standard helps to understand how to apply the available information on Legionella effectively in order to prevent cases of legionellosis associated with building water systems.
For Bill's full details see http://www.phigenics.com/about/Bio.aspx?name=McCoy

Bill's presentation will be followed by a UK perspective by Simon French, a legionella expert and member of the HVCA's Service and Facilities Group

London Location - Bartlett Central, University College London, Central House, 14 Upper Woburn Place, London WC1H 0NN - Register for free - tim@timdwyer.com

Steve Bushby of NIST (US National Institute for Standards) and chair of ASHRAE's committee looking at a model for 'Smart Grids' will speak on the future and potential for Smart Grids.
The national electric grid has been called the supreme engineering achievement of the 20th century but in spite of its success and the tremendous impact it has had on our lives, the electric grid is under strain from increasing demand and aging infrastructure, and is in need of modernization. The U.S. has established a national policy to modernize the nation's electricity transmission and distribution system to maintain a reliable and secure infrastructure that can meet future demand growth and a range of other specific objectives.The expected result is characterized by the term 'smart grid'.

Steven Bushby will consider the need for both a smart grid and, importantly, the role that ASHRAE and smart buildings will play. He will discuss the developing ASHRAE Facility Smart Grid Information Model standard and how it will be a key part of enabling appliances, space conditioning systems, and control systems in homes, buildings, and industrial facilities to manage electrical loads and generation sources in response to communication with a smart electrical grid and to communicate information about those electrical loads to electrical service providers.

Steven Bushby is Group Leader of the Mechanical Systems and Controls Group, Energy and Environment Division, Engineering Laboratory at National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Md. He is also chair of ASHRAE Standard Project Committee 201 P, Facility Smart Grid Information Model

(Webinar recording available)

Wednesday February 15th 2012, 4pm

CIBSE ASHRAE Group AGM

NOTE this will be followed by a presentation at 6pm in a different location within London South Bank University - see below for details

• How can we now build on the strong links that have been developed over the last few years between CIBSE and ASHRAE?
• What is wanted in next year's programme?
• Do you want to organise an event at your location?
• Are you or do you know a potential speaker?

Please book a place if you wish to attend as the name must be given to the security desk prior to the event - email tim@timdwyer.com

Location: Room T618, Borough Road Entrance, London South Bank University, Borough Road, London SE1 0AA (for a map click here).
The nearest tube stations are Southwark (7 mins walk), Elephant & Castle (7 mins walk) or Borough (10 mins walk).

How the US keeps 50 year old air conditioning systems operating and energy efficient
Presented by David Arnold

NOTE this follows the earlier AGM that will be held in a different location within London South Bank University - see above for details

David Arnold, speaking live from London will present on measures to improve the energy efficiency and extend plant and equipment life of air conditioning systems in three iconic buildings in Chicago build in the 1950s and 60s.

The buildings include:

• The John Hancock Tower (1970)
• The Richard J Daley Center (1965)
• The Inland Steel Building (1958)

All three buildings continue to operate with the original air conditioning systems modified and retrofitted to continue to be reliable and energy efficient..

David Arnold trained as a heating and ventilating engineer and qualified as a chartered engineer in 1970. He has been a Partner of Troup Bywaters & Anders consulting engineers since 1973. He is a past President of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (1994/95), a past Chairman of the National Engineering Specification, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and, has completed two terms as a Director of the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration & Air Conditioning Engineers.

His experience includes the design, installation, commissioning and operation of engineering services both within buildings and the site distribution. His responsibilities have ranged from being intimately involved with the detail design, installation and commissioning to taking overall responsibility for all engineering services in major projects. Past projects include, refurbishment of the Foreign Office, the New Parliamentary Buildings and several other listed and historic buildings. He has also acted as advisor/expert on many major developments including, the IBM plant at Greenock, Stoke Mandeville and Derby Hospitals, He maintains his involvement in the design of new projects and is currently involved in the preparation of design guides with the CIBSE and BSRIA.

To register for free for the webinar (participating from the comfort of your own PC) click here (You can read about what a 'webinar' is here)

Please book a place if you wish to attend in person as your name must be given to the security desk prior to the event - email tim@timdwyer.com

Location: CEREB, KEYWORTH STREET 2 Entrance, London South Bank University, Borough Road, London SE1 0AA (for a map see http://tinyurl.com/lsbu-keyworth ).

The nearest tube stations are Southwark (10 mins walk), Elephant & Castle (4 mins walk) or Borough (12 mins walk).

Location: CEREB, KEYWORTH STREET 2 Entrance, London South Bank University, Borough Road, London SE1 0AA (for a map see http://tinyurl.com/lsbu-keyworth ).

The nearest tube stations are Southwark (10 mins walk), Elephant & Castle (4 mins walk) or Borough (12 mins walk).

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