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ASHRAE Community Sustainability Projects Get Your Chapter Involved!

ASHRAE Community Sustainability Projects Get Your Chapter Involved!. ASHRAE Community Sustainability Projects . Encourages ASHRAE members to share their engineering knowledge to improve the world around them

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ASHRAE Community Sustainability Projects Get Your Chapter Involved!

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  1. ASHRAE Community Sustainability Projects Get Your Chapter Involved!

  2. ASHRAE Community Sustainability Projects • Encourages ASHRAE members to share their engineering knowledge to improve the world around them • Launched as part of 2012-13 ASHRAE President Tom Watson’s theme “Broadening ASHRAE’s Horizons”

  3. ASHRAE Community Sustainability Projects • 500 points for chapter sponsored community sustainability project/event held with non-profit organization • 100 points for chapter sponsored community sustainable project publicity (outside of normal chapter promotion) (includes print, audio, electronic media at local, state, provincial, national or industry level) promoting work of ASHRAE and/or the chapter (500 points maximum) • Learn more at www.ashrae.org/community

  4. Hampton Roads ASHRAE/IFMA Chapters Energy for Kids (E4K) Projects • Helps local charities lower costs related to HVAC&R and domestic hot water • Funds raised from pig roasts used to upgrade HVAC&R systems for various charities: • St. Mary’s Home for Disabled Children • ForKids – family homeless • Habitat for Humanity. • Local YWCA

  5. ASHRAE Sustainable Footprint Project • Launched in 2008 by Utah Chapter • Goal: • leave a legacy representing ASHRAE's commitment to sustainability • offset the environmental impact from holding the Annual Conference • Now custom for the Annual Conference host city to select project • Project technical and financial support provided by ASHRAE local and national membership community

  6. ASHRAE Annual ConferenceSalt Lake City, Utah, 2008 YWCA of Salt Lake City’s Teen Home • Utah Chapter provided four solar panels and additional storage capacity for domestic hot water use • Replaces some 100 decatherms of natural gas per year; reduces carbon footprint by over 10,000 pounds of CO2. annual, saving $650 a year

  7. ASHRAE Annual ConferenceMontreal, Quebec, Canada, 2011 Accueil Bonneau Homeless Shelter • $20,000 contribution from Montreal Chapter • 7 Polytechnique students design, install solar power system • Saves shelter $3,600 a year on its gas bill, as well as produce 12.2 fewer tonnes of CO2

  8. ASHRAE Annual ConferenceSan Antonio, Texas, 2012 Eco Centro Facility Sustainability Training Alamo Chapter to help San Antonio Colleges’ EcoCentro introduce sustainable building design and maintenance concepts to students, faculty and neighboring residents

  9. ASHRAE Annual Conference Denver, Colorado, 2013 Denver Rescue MissionHomeless Shelter Rocky Mountain Chapter committed to replacing shelter’s aged and deteriorating systems to improve efficiency and increase occupant comfort

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