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January Lunch Meeting - Chilled Beams by Chris Lawrence

  • 05 Jan 2017
  • 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Byron's Southend, 101 W. Worthington Avenue, Suite 110 Charlotte, NC 28203
  • 127

Registration

  • Details:
    - There are eight white marbles and one black marbles in the bag.
    - Meeting attendees may purchase a raffle ticket for $5 each or five tickets for $20.
    - At the end of each monthly chapter meeting, we will draw a raffle ticket. The winning raffle ticket will receive a chance to draw the one black marble from the bag.
    - If the black marble is drawn, you win.
    - Winner receives half of the total raffle money collected. The other half of the money will go directly to ASHRAE research and be credited in the winner’s name.
    - If you draw a white marble, you do not win anything. The raffle money collected, will roll over to the next month’s meeting.

    Notes:
    - All money from raffle ticket purchases will continue to roll over until raffle ticket winner draws the black marble.
    - Raffle ticket costs may increase as white marbles are pulled and odds to draw the black marble increase.
    - All proceeds will go to ASHRAE Research.

    How To Enter:
    1. Raffle tickets may be purchased via SPASHRAE.com by choosing to purchase “The Marble Challenge” raffle tickets when you register for each chapter meeting, or at the front desk when you sign-in at each chapter meeting.

    Rules:
    1. Must be present to win.
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January Lunch Meeting Topic: 

The Cost Effective Use of Chilled Beams as We Move Towards Net Zero Building



     

When: Thursday January 5, 2017 @ 11:30 am 

Where: Byron's South End

By: Chris Lawrence

Senior Vice President Sales – TROX USA Inc

Chris has spent over 30 years with TROX, a European based manufacturer of air distribution products, including chilled beams. He transferred to the US in 2004 to manage the North American subsidiary. Chris grew the business by 600% and made TROX the market leader in chilled beam technology. Chris has also worked for two competitors during his stay in the US but is now back home with the company where his career began.


Chris has worked on several hundred buildings in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the United States. Amongst his many successes, he secured the orders for the largest chilled beam installation (at that time) in Europe, NAP, Cheltenham, UK, which had approximately 18 km (11.2 miles) of passive beams and the largest active chilled beam job (to date) in the US, the Constitution Center, D.C. at 1.4m/ft2 with over 7000 beams.

Chris has nearly 38 years of experience in the selection and application of HVAC products and devices and over 25 years in the application of chilled ceilings, passive and active chilled beams, with the last 11 years being based in North America. Chris is considered one of the pioneers in the application of chilled beams in the US and has been involved with many of the major chilled beam installations including the passive chilled beam installations for Fidelity with a combined total of over 3500 beams. Chris has also applied chilled beams at many of the major universities including MIT, Harvard, Penn State, O.H.S.U., L.M.U., Stanford, U.N.L.V., Brown, Princeton, U of A, A.S.U., UC Davis and laboratories at Tahoe, Genome, U.C.S.C., Stanford, Princeton, Porter Neuroscience Research Center and U.W. School of Medicine, which is considered the largest laboratory applications of chilled beams in North America. As the US market has developed over the last 11 years, Chris has been successful in the application of beams into the healthcare, K-12 education and government/commercial office sectors.

Chris was involved directly with the National Institute of Health, Bethesda (MD) on a number of research projects and tests of the use of chilled beams in North America and on a major renovation with the NIH where a multistory hospital building was converted to laboratories.

Chris graduated with a degree in Mechanical & Production engineering and furthered his studies in business management at Canfield University. He became a citizen in 2011 and is a member of ASHRAE.

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