Wednesday, November 27th, 2024 (registration closes on Friday, November 22nd, 2024 at 12 noon)
11:00 AM to 2:00 PM EDT - Online ASHRAE Instructors-led Course
Special Notice: Multi-Chapter Online Learning Event
This is a collaborative event across the network of ASHRAE chapters in our region (Including: Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, & PEI). As a result we are happy to announce that we will be offering the same pricing for our all chapter members under our region. For non-ASHRAE Toronto chapter members please contact your local Chapter for your code to access the best pricing for this event.
Course Summary
This course provides a descriptive summary of the concept of resilience in the built environment and how sustainability, efficiency, and smart technology can help improve resilience. The concept of resilience in the context of the built environment applies to both manmade (e.g., terrorism) and natural (e.g., weather) events as they influence the infrastructure and systems that our society is built around. In this respect, we can define resilience as the capacity of the built environment (such as buildings, transportation, and energy and water distribution systems), as well as the communities and individuals within, to survive, adapt, and grow when subject to chronic stress or acute shocks. The course concludes by looking at future trends and technologies that will soon (or may reasonably in the near future) enter the market and of which the attendee should be aware.
Instructor
Thomas Lawrence, Ph.D., P.E., Fellow ASHRAE, LEED® AP
Dr. Lawrence is a Professor of Practice Emeritus with the University of Georgia and has over 40 years of professional career experience. He spent his first 18 years in industry and after going back for his PhD at Purdue he started the academic phase of his career at UGA January 2004. Before his retirement in the summer of 2023, Dr. Lawrence was the Mechanical Engineering program coordinator at UGA. He is a former chair of ASHRAE Technical Committee 2.8 and is a member of the committee that wrote and maintains ASHRAE Standard 189.1 for High Performance Green Buildings. As an ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer, he gives seminars related to high-performance buildings at venues around the world. Dr. Lawrence was named an ASHRAE Fellow in 2017 and was a Director-at-Large on the Board of Directors for ASHRAE from 2016-2019. He has numerous publications with ASHRAE, including the book High-Performance Buildings Simplified and served as the senior editor for the 4th, 5th and 6th editions of the ASHRAE Green Guide. As an ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer, he has given presentations and workshops on high-performance and smart buildings in 35 countries around the world.
Dr. Lawrence has a bachelor’s degree with highest distinction honors in Environmental Science from Purdue University, a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Oregon State University, and a second master’s degree in Engineering Management from Washington University in St. Louis. He received his doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University, with a research topic focused on demand control ventilation.
Course Materials and Continuing Education Credits
This course will be presented through the GoToWebinar or WebEx platform. Course registrants will receive a confirmation e-mail with instructions on how to log in to the course and how to obtain the course materials. The course presentation will be made available prior to the course date. Attendees will receive the 3 hour online course, a copy of presentation and 30 days access to recorded version.
Electronic copies of the course evaluation form and Certificates of Attendance referencing Professional Development Hours (PDHs) will be made available to the course attendees.
Use of the materials is limited to the above course on the specified dates. Course materials may not be sold, shared or otherwise distributed independently of the above licensed course. Use of ASHRAE content may not be done in a way that will state or imply ASHRAE endorsement of any proprietary service or commercial product. This permission should not be construed that ASHRAE is waiving any copyright protection or other rights entitled to its intellectual property.
