National Capital Chapter Members,

October was another successful month for our chapter. We continued our Virtual PES on the “CO2 Emission Reduction in the Building Industry” from Rachel Coyle was timed appropriately with ASHRAE’s focus on Decarbonization. Rachel brought insight into high level strategies as well as identifying key players pushing this movement forward. We rounded out the Decarbonization topic with our dinner presentation given by  Sean Casey titled “Decarbonizing the Built Environment – Reducing Embodied and Operational Carbon from Net Zero Design.” Sean touched on how designers can help support decarbonization and how ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 228 comes into play.

As a reminder, a major benefit to being a member of the National Capital Chapter this year is that we offer the virtual PES for FREE, meaning no-cost continuing education credits for our licensed professionals!

December’s theme is Research Promotion and Government Activities. Research Promotion (RP) is the fundraising arm of ASHRAE that helps support development of standards, guidelines, handbooks and fund cutting edge research for our industry. Without it, ASHRAE would not be able to continue to push the limits of our industry. This is entirely funded from donations through the members of ASHRAE and I highly encourage in this season of giving to consider ASHRAE as one of your donations! For more information on the Research Promotion program, and how you can get involved, please reach out to our RP Chair Stephen Wetherhold at research_promotion@nccashrae.org.

We at the National Capital Chapter are in a unique position to support ASHRAE’s on going Government Activities efforts. Being located around the Capital region, we have easy access to local and national officials. Government Activities helps to drive energy efficiencies and policies that support the overarching goals of ASHRAE Society, but it cannot happen without involvement at the local chapter levels. For more information on Government Activities in our area, please reach out to our committee at government_activities_national@nccashrae.org.

As the holiday season is upon us, I want to personally wish all of our membership Happy Holidays. However it is you chose to celebrate, please make sure to enjoy the time with family, friends, etc. This is a special time of year for me to relax, recharge and reflect on the past year. I hope you all can do the same.

Please note however, that we have one more meeting for the calendar year prior to the holidays coming up on December 13^th. Hoping you all can join!

Wishing our members all the best!