October 2026 - Designing Building Ventilation to Exceed Codes and Standards
October 05, 2026
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
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Strathallan
550 East Avenue
Rochester, NY 14607
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| Details: | The indoor environment significantly impacts the health, comfort, and productivity of occupants. A well-designed ventilation system is essential for maintaining high indoor air quality. Building codes and standards are developed to ensure that ventilation designs meet certain minimum requirements for various design and operating parameters. Most codes and standards represent the consensus of industry experts and provide only prescriptive guidance for ventilation designs. However, to ensure optimal thermal comfort and a healthy indoor environment for all occupants, it's crucial to go beyond these high-level prescriptive guidelines and adopt a human-centric HVAC design approach. This presentation demonstrates the impact of airflow patterns on indoor air quality and thermal comfort of occupants and emphasize the crucial role that the HVAC layouts play in controlling the spread of airborne contaminants. This presentation will help design engineers, facility managers, and building owners understand the limitations of codes and standards and demonstrate how to design human-centric HVAC systems. |
| Presented By: | Dr. Kishor Khankari, Ph.D - ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer |
| Presenter Bio: |
Dr. Kishor Khankari, Ph.D. is President at AnSight LLC in Ann Arbor, MI. He provides engineering solutions and insights through Physics based simulations and CFD analysis. Kishor has several years of experience in providing optimized HVAC solutions to a wide variety of applications involving external wind engineering, plume dispersion, smoke exhaust, displacement ventilation, natural ventilation, radiant heating and cooling, and indoor air quality and thermal comfort optimization for office spaces, patient rooms, operating rooms, cleanrooms, justice facilities, data centers, and warehouses. Dr. Khankari has developed a patented technology of a wind band design of exhaust fan assembly systems. He has developed several easy-to-use analytical software tools which are regularly used by design engineers in a variety companies including those in HVAC industry, critical facilities, and automotive industries. A noted expert in his field, he has a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and has been regularly published in several technical journals and trade magazines. Dr. Khankari has delivered more than 125 DL presentations worldwide on topics related to design and optimization of HVAC systems and made several presentation at various technical conferences and professional meetings. Dr. Kishor Khankari is a Fellow member of ASHRAE. He served on ASHRAE Board as a Director-at Large. He is a recipient of Louise & Bill Holladay Distinguished Fellow Award, ASHRAE Exceptional and Distinguished Service Awards. He is the past President of Detroit ASHRAE Chapter, past Chair of ASHRAE Technical Committee TC9.11 Clean Spaces, and past Chair of Research Administration Committee (RAC). He is a voting member of Technical Committee TC9.10 Laboratory Systems and TC5.3 Air Distribution. He is a voting member of Standards committees SPC241: Control of Infectious Aerosols and SPC129: Air Change Effectiveness. He is also leading a Multi Task Group (MTG) on Air Change Rates. |
| RSVP Deadline: | September 29, 2026 at 5PM |
| PDH Approved: | Pending |
| Sponsored By: | TBD |
Tickets
$50.00 Technical Seminar & Lunch (Member)
$60.00 Technical Seminar & Lunch (Non-Member)