2024 ASHRAE conference: Decarbonization, climate change, AI, and more

by arslan_ahmed | November 28, 2023 2:40 pm

[1]With a focus on addressing the pressing challenges of decarbonization and climate change, and the evolving role of artificial intelligence (AI) in the industry, ASHRAE has unveiled the preliminary technical program for its 2024 ASHRAE Winter Conference.

The technical program for the conference—to take place January 20-24, 2024, in Chicago Illinois—can be found online and in the ASHRAE 365 app.

The conference will feature 11 technical tracks and more than 100 sessions. Participants will have the opportunity to earn Professional Development Hours (PDHs), while exploring tracks such as decarbonization and climate change, clean spaces and mission critical facilities, tall buildings design, artificial intelligence (ai), refrigeration and refrigerants, and more.

“The conference gives attendees an unparalleled opportunity to discover practical and timely solutions to some of the greatest challenges facing the built environment,” says Suzanne LeViseur, 2024 ASHRAE Winter Conference chair. “ASHRAE’s decarbonization focus is included within all of the technical tracks, so that we can provide effective strategies on a variety of topics through the conference sessions.”

Some decarbonization-related sessions include:

• Decarbonization in cold chain process (refrigeration and refrigerants track)
• The logical way to tap into decarbonization: Hydronic district energy systems (hydronic systems track)
• Beneficial electrification (HVAC&R systems and equipment track)
• Grid-interactive buildings for a decarbonized world (decarbonization and climate change track)

Additional sessions include:

• Laboratory superhero: The critical plan to save
• Pulling back the curtain on DEI
• Standard 241: You have questions; we have answers
• Artificial intelligence for buildings performance simulation
• Harmony in action: ASHRAE standards paving the way for building decarbonization
• What’s the fuss about zero trust cyber security for BAS control systems?
• Who’s afraid of the net zero wolf?

The ASHRAE Learning Institute will offer 18 courses during the conference. All courses are approved for continuing education credits toward maintaining P.E. licensure.

Four new courses are being offered:

• Starting the path to net-zero buildings using ASHRAE 90.1-2022
• Understanding ASHRAE Standard 241, Control of Infectious Aerosols—Background, overview, and key requirements
• V in HVAC—Health and energy improvements using the indoor air quality procedures
• Is your building ready? Applying ASHRAE Standard 241, Control of Infectious Aerosols—Facility assessment, planning, and implementation

ASHRAE certification exams will also be administered during the week and business, committee, and technical meetings will be conducted in the weeks leading up to, and during the conference.

To learn more about the 2024 ASHRAE Winter Conference and to register, visit ashrae.org/2024winter[2].Top of Form

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