March 2004

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BFRL Supports New ASTM Performance Standard on Residential Indoor Air Quality

BFRL played a key role in the development and approval of a new ASTM performance standard guide on residential indoor air quality. The standard, E2267 Guide for Specifying and Evaluating Performance of Single Family Attached and Detached Dwellings—Indoor Air Quality, was approved by ASTM Committee E6 Performance of Buildings. The guide is one in a set of ASTM standards that together will present a complete performance standard guide for specifying and evaluating single family attached and detached dwellings. The performance statements contained in this standard guide are relevant to a range of built elements related to the indoor environment, including (but not limited to) the whole building, the exterior enclosure, HVAC subsystems, local exhaust subsystems, other ventilation subsystems and their components, filtration and air cleaning subsystems, and building materials and furnishings.

Contact:
Andrew Persily
301-975-6418

 

BFRL’s Gross Elected Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers

John Gross III of the Materials and Construction Research Division recently was elected fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). ASCE fellows are legally registered professional engineers or land surveyors who have made significant technical or professional contributions to the profession and who have demonstrated notable achievement in responsible charge of engineering activity for at least 10 years following election to the ASCE grade of member. Gross is responsible for conducting research in the area of structural engineering, leading failure investigations, and carrying out post-disaster reconnaissance work. In addition to numerous other awards, Gross received the ASCE Raymond C. Reese Research Prize in 2001.

Contact:
Shyam Sunder
301-975-6713

 

BFRL’s Carino Receives the American Concrete Institute’s Concrete Research Council Robert E. Philleo Award

Nicholas Carino of the Materials and Construction Research Division has received the American Concrete Institute’s Concrete Research Council Robert E. Philleo Award at the opening session and awards program during ACI’s convention in Washington, D.C., March 14, 2004. This award is given “in recognition of a person, persons, or an organization for outstanding research in the concrete materials field, or for outstanding contributions to the advancement of concrete technology through application of the results of concrete materials research.” It is given in memory of an institute past president and honorary member who also was chairman of the Concrete Materials Research Council, now the Concrete Research Council.

Contact:
John Gross
301-975-6068

 

BFRL’s Persily Named ASHRAE Fellow

Andrew Persily of the Indoor Air Quality and Ventilation Group in the Building Environment Division was named a fellow of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) at their winter meeting in January. This award, which recognizes distinction in the arts and sciences of environmental technology, is based on Persily’s research in the area of building ventilation and indoor air quality. The award made note of his activities as past chair of ASHRAE’s Standard 62, Ventilation for Acceptable Indoor Air Quality. It also cited his work in mechanically ventilated office buildings that led to the development of standard test methods for tracer gas techniques used to measure air change rates and air distribution effectiveness in buildings. His work in the development of guidance for interpreting carbon dioxide levels to evaluate ventilation and indoor air quality was also noted. Fellow is ASHRAE’s highest membership grade, currently attained by about 500 of its 55,000 members.

Contact:
Andrew Persily
301-975-6418

 

 

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