Topic:

How Do We Get to a Decarbonized World?

• Overview: Many organizations have made goals to decarbonize leaving design teams to implement these goals on behalf of their clients. This leads to many questions including how to electrify, how to set energy targets, how to align solar resources to better match building loads, how to incorporate electric vehicles, how to make a shift make sense from a business sense, among others. This lecture will give examples of companies making such goals and the creation of action plans to strive towards hitting corporate sustainability and decarbonization goals. The lecture will provide strategies to achieve the goals as well as map out what is still needed to make decarbonized buildings routine.
• Learning Objectives:
• Objective 1 – Describe a process for creating a decarbonized building.
• Objective 2 – Understand how building interact with the building grid and can help guide more renewable energy on the grid.
• Objective 3 – Investigate how to prioritize buildings in a portfolio to meet a portfolio level carbon goal.
• Objective 4 – Apply design concepts to creating buildings that meet EUI goals and can shape the demand profile to reduce carbon impacts.

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Presented By:

Paul Torcellini - ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer

National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

• Paul Torcellini has 30 years of experience examining how energy is used in buildings including delivery mechanisms, design, system integration, and operations. His focus is on creating buildings that have minimal environmental impact because of their operations including very low energy buildings and zero energy buildings.
• Paul received his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts. He received a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering specializing in heat transfer and modeling of buildings and a Ph.D. in building controls from Purdue University (W. Lafayette, Indiana).
• Paul is a 25-year ASHRAE Fellow and has received two ASHRAE Technology Awards for his energy-efficient buildings work and has been a key contributor to the Advanced Energy Design Guide Series, published by ASHRAE as a collaborative effort of AIA, ASHRAE, IES, and USGBC. He has led the technical analysis of several of the guides and has chaired two of the guides including the Advanced Energy Design Guide for K-12 Schools: Achieving Zero Energy (January 2018) and the Advanced Energy Design Guide for Small to Medium Office Buildings: Achieving Zero Energy (June 2019). He has been a speaker on two ASHRAE Webcasts including one focused on Zero Energy Buildings. He is active in TC2.8 (Building Environmental Impacts and Sustainability) and has been involved in several Society level efforts including MTGs, position documents, and Project Monitoring Subcommittees.
• Paul has taught at Purdue University, University of Denver, Colorado School of Mines, Youngstown State University, and Eastern Connecticut State University.
• Paul and his family live in a zero-energy home in northeastern Connecticut and run a sustainable farm focused on soil restoration growing a variety of farm products. (See High Performing Buildings, Spring 2018 for more information on the house.)

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This event with be hosted at the Strathallan Hotel on East Avenue, this month to be held in the 9th Floor City View Ballroom event space. Please use the elevators in the Main Lobby up to the 9th floor. Plenty of Free Parking is available in the Strathallan parking lot (entrance to parking lot from Strathallan Park). See the included map view photo showing the parking areas. On-street parking is also available in the surrounding neighborhoods (observe City signage & meters). Please plan to arrive earlier than usual for this event with this being a new location and arrangements. We plan for the presentation to begin at 12:00pm. We will selling tickets for a 50/50 Raffle at this event (cash only) with proceeds supporting ASHRAE Research Promotion.

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