ASHRAE has
announced a call for papers for its 2016 Annual Conference in St. Louis, Mo.,
June 25-29.
“The 2016
Annual Conference features a great mix of the engineering basics as well as
advanced systems and professional development,” Wade Conlan, chair of ASHRAE’s
Conferences and Exposition Committee, said. “In addition to the Fundamentals
and Systems Tracks, there will be a Professional Skills Beyond Engineering
track that focuses on the development of the business side of
engineering. Two tracks that will push boundaries are Smart Building
Systems as well as Renewable Energy Systems and Net Zero Buildings. And
finally, we are going back to the core of air conditioning with a track on
Advances in Refrigeration Systems and Alternative Refrigerants.”
The
increasingly relevant Renewable Energy Systems and Net Zero Buildings track
delivers sessions on high energy efficiency and methods of design. The track
addresses recent advances in alternative energy systems and equipment and new
design strategies for achieving net zero buildings.
Exploring the
wide range of refrigeration systems under development, the Advances in
Refrigeration Systems and Alternative Refrigerants track places special
emphasis on the use of alternative refrigerants in vapor compression machines
to address environmental concerns.
The Smart
Building Systems/Remote Monitoring and Diagnostics track covers advanced
communication protocols, system integration, BMS tools, data management and
analysis.
New engineers
and veterans alike benefit from the Professional Skills Beyond Engineering
track, which seeks to ensure professional skills are being developed and
maintained beyond engineering essentials.
ASHRAE offers
two types of paper submissions:
Conference
Papers: Abstracts due Sept. 14, 2015. Upon acceptance, papers will be due
Jan. 4, 2016. These “final” papers undergo a single-blind review, are
submitted as a PDF and have an eight single-spaced page maximum length.
Full Technical Papers, which are due Sept. 14,
2015. Papers submitted for review must be both technically accurate and
clearly written. These papers undergo a rigorous double-blind review and can be
a maximum of 30 double-spaced pages.
To submit a
Conference paper abstract or a technical paper and for more information about
the conference, visit
www.ashrae.org/stlouis.