The Australian Institute of Refrigeration, Air Conditioning and Heating (AIRAH) has announced spreakers for its inaugural Commissioning Workshop event, which will be held in Sydney on Thursday, September 10.
Scheduled to take place at The Mint, the workshop will feature seven speakers covering a range of subjects related to building commissioning.
AIRAH CEO Phil Wilkinson, said the workshop is an opportunity to discuss issues surrounding the essential, but often neglected or incorrectly performed, subject of commissioning.
Chair of the Commissioning Workshop committee, Neil Caswell, said it is all about making sure HVAC&R systems deliver what they are designed to do.
“Correct commissioning is essential to deliver a properly functioning and performing building,” he said.
Topics to be covered range from new technologies to opportunities to standardise training and education of commissioning technicians across Australia. Metering and tuning will be covered by Andrew Crabtree who will outline the objectives and the methodology of building tuning.
“With the development of remote-data-access options and analytic software, it is now feasible to achieve very detailed analysis of building performance and adjust building services systems to deliver the best outcomes within the capability of their design and building usage,” Crabtree said.
He will discuss data acquisition, monitoring of metering systems, energy/water consumption and distribution, performance vs NABERS rating targets, equipment runtimes, and final recommissioning.
In his presentation Ian Sprent, will cover the impact of water quality on water balance. Sprent will outline what is required to comply with both the CIBSE Code and BSRIA guide, and address the many misunderstandings with both.
Mark Jacobson, will cover the importance of properly sealing building facades and explore the standards required to achieve this.
“In the age of energy efficiency and the ever-expanding armada of clever technology required to overcome our power-consumption woes an avenue that is often overlooked is the passive solution of suitably sealed facades,” he said.