Webinar
Whole Building Decarbonization: Insights from Industry Experts
In this webinar, you’ll hear from a group of industry experts on the whole carbon lifecycle and how various factors including materials, building shape and use, weather, use of renewables and efficient equipment, and proper refrigerant management can positively affect the long-term goals of a building and its ultimate impact on sustainable progress.
Webinar Details
- Date
- Duration
- 1 hour
Quick Facts
- Topics
- Contractor • Engineer & Architect
- Services
- Energy Management & Controls
For building industry professionals, it is all about perspective—from the architect and design engineers to contractors and resource providers—each phase of the building lifecycle presents strategic benefits and challenges. In addition, the industry’s understanding of decarbonization applications in each of the Design, Construction, Operation and End-of-Life phases is continually changing.
In this webinar, you’ll hear from a group of industry experts on the whole carbon lifecycle and how various factors including materials, building shape and use, weather, use of renewables and efficient equipment, and proper refrigerant management can positively affect the long-term goals of a building and its ultimate impact on sustainable progress.
Learning Objectives:
- VRF system overview
- Server room do’s & don’ts
- Applying ASHRAE® 15
- Treating outside air & IEQ
- Specification tips for a successful startup
- Wireless controls
- Piping considerations
Speaker
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Charles (Charlie) Jelen
Charlie Jelen is a Data Center Sales Account Manager at Trane, where he helps clients navigate one of the most demanding and fast-evolving sectors in the HVAC world. With 15 years of experience spanning HVAC and power systems, Charlie has become a trusted expert in energy efficiency, thermal design, and electrification. He’s especially drawn to emerging technologies with the potential to reshape entire industries, from new forms of power to ever faster computation and the innovations redefining modern data centers.
A graduate of the University of Minnesota with a degree in mechanical engineering, Charlie joined Trane in 2014 and has built his career around sustainability, system modeling, and designing largescale solutions for complex facilities. Off the clock, he’s usually at one of his kids’ sporting events, or measuring something four times before making a single cut. Because while most people follow “measure twice, cut once,” Charlie can’t get the sneaking suspicion out of his head that he didn’t measure that piece right.
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Trevor Joelson
Trevor Joelson is the industrial lead for Trane’s decarbonization program for key accounts. Through this program, Trevor collaborates with industrial customers to define their environmental sustainability objectives and establish initiatives and programs to reduce operational emissions through financially attractive and measurable projects. Trevor joined Trane through an acquisition of Fellon-McCord in 2016 and has held various roles in corporate energy & sustainability management over the last decade. His subject matter expertise is in the energy markets and how the supply-side of energy connects to the built environment. Trevor lives with his family in Dallas, TX and is a graduate of the University of Louisville.
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Mike Fierro
Mike currently serves as the National Mechanical Supply Chain Manager for SourceBlue. He supports a team of over 100+ engineers with technical and experiential knowledge. Mike has over 20 years of industry experience to focus on evaluating mechanical design criteria, and offering alternate solutions, producing project specific equipment scopes, bidding and negotiating equipment purchases, coordinating and follow up for on-time equipment factory testing and delivery, and overseeing equipment testing and vendor start-up.
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Erin McConahey, PE
Erin McConahey is a Principal in Mechanical Engineering with Arup, an employee-owned global engineering, advisory and planning consulting firm. During her 26 years with Arup, she has worked internationally and now leads multidisciplinary design teams in Los Angeles on a wide variety of project types. She is currently leading Arup’s Global Net Zero Carbon Working Group and Americas Building Decarbonization Climate Services Team. Erin is a Professional Engineer in California and Colorado, a LEED accredited professional (BD+C specialty), an ASHRAE accredited High Performance Building Design Professional, and a Fellow of the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-conditioning Engineers. She is co-author of the ASHRAE Natural Ventilation Design Guide and writes semi-annually for the Engineer’s Notebook column in ASHRAE Journal.
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Andrew Blake
Andrew Blake is the Environmental Services Commercial Director at A-Gas. At A-Gas, he focuses on the development and sale of voluntary and compliance carbon credits associated with the destruction of end-of-life refrigerants as well as reclamation of HFC gases. For the past 10 + years, he has worked in carbon markets, climate change, and corporate emission reduction strategies in Europe (based in the UK) and here in the U.S. In addition to his work with refrigerants and high GWP gas offset projects, Andrew also has a background in international nature-based solution carbon projects.
