Wade H. Conlan, P.E., BCxP. CxA, LEED AP BD+C
Hanson Professional Services, Inc.
2300 Maitland Center Parkway, Suite 310
407-716-9997
Region: XII
Honorarium: None
Wade H. Conlan, P.E., BCxP, CxA, LEED AP BD+C has over 27 years of commissioning and design engineering experience and has completed projects in a variety of building use categories. Projects have included laboratories, central utility plants, hospitality, themed entertainment, pharmaceutical, gaming, mission critical, and healthcare.
Wade received his Bachelor of Architectural Engineering from Penn State in 1995.
Wade is an active participant in many levels of ASHRAE, including being a past Chapter President, Regional Refrigeration Chair, and many roles at society. He is a Vice President nominee for 2023-2025 (two year term) and is currently a Director-at-Large on the Board of Directors. Wade joined as a student in 1994. Wade has chaired the Environmental Health Committee, lead the ASHRAE Epidemic Task Force’s Building Readiness Team, chaired SPC 110 – Method of Test for Fume Hood Performance, chair of TC 9.10 Laboratories, voting member of SSPC 300 – Building Commissioning, voting member of GPC 1.1 and chair of GPC 1.6P – Commissioning for Data Centers.
Wade has been published in many technical documents, including the ASHRAE Journal. He also has spoken at, and chaired, numerous ASHRAE Conferences on topics of energy, indoor air quality, and standards.
Wade currently serves as Hanson's Commissioning & Energy Discipline Manager whose team does work around the world. He has led retro-commissioning on more than 65 million square feet of buildings around the world. He has also led many commissioning, energy audits, and condition assessments.
Topic
Monitoring Based Commissioning and Fault Detection Diagnostics: Using Big Data and Engineering to Improve Facility Performance
Buildings are using way more data points for their operation, beyond the HVAC systems BAS, to be able to measure and verify that they are operating within energy and comfort parameters. The use of Monitoring Based Cx (MBCx) or Fault Detection Diagnostics (FDD) for ongoing commissioning can help keep the systems in line for energy use as well as maintaining a high level of IEQ. These processes can also be used for improving the existing buildings in an owner’s portfolio. Learn how to use MBCx and FDD, in your designs, construction, commissioning, and retro-commissioning of the built environment.
Weighing the Pig vs. Making it Fly: Improve Energy Performance while Maintaining IEQ through Retro-Commissioning
A lot of existing building stock needs to have its energy, and thereby operational carbon, improved if we are to meet the challenges for net-zero energy or carbon-neutrality in the next few decades. The improvement of the existing building stock, which is often looked at as energy hogs, can be greatly improved through the retro-commissioning process. This session covers the stages of weighing the pig (benchmarking) versus actively making improvements for systems. Actual projects for laboratories, hospitality and gaming, and university facilities will be used to demonstrate how to use retro-commissioning to make your pig fly.
IEQ versus Efficiency versus Carbon: The necessary balance for future buildings
Facilities today are having to provide a balancing act, when going beyond code, to provide a built environment that is high in Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) while using the least amount of energy as possible and reducing its carbon footprint. Some of these items go naturally hand-in-hand while some are at complete odds with each other. This session talks about achieving that balance, based on owner’s project requirements, through design, construction, commissioning, and operation of the facilities. Systems and equipment need to be properly sized and controlled so that the facility staff can achieve the IEQ, energy, and carbon goals.
Improving your customer’s energy efficiency and resiliency through the use of facilities condition assessments, energy audits, retro-Cx
This presentation details how clients can improve energy efficiency and overall operations and maintenance, sustainability and resiliency by implementing a program of Facilities Condition Assessments, Energy Audits, and Retro-Commissioning. The intent is to gain a better understanding of the condition of their equipment and systems and then use Retro-commissioning and energy audits to identify facility improvement measures that can be implemented to reduce energy costs and improve environmental conditions.
Efficiency, Sustainability, and Resiliency: Auditing Redefined
Energy auditing and strategic planning of energy initiatives have long been an important part of an energy and facility managers’ toolkit for decreasing energy demand and consumption, resulting in operational savings in their facilities. For years, consultants have been asked to expand their auditing and planning of existing buildings and their systems, including an expanded list of Owner’s priorities. Beyond efficiency, these include sustainability, resiliency, indoor environmental quality, carbon neutrality and security. There are many government programs and initiatives that drive this work. In addition, extreme weather events increased the focus on resiliency. This session will examine how the scope of audits, condition assessments and strategic planning has expanded beyond evaluations for energy efficiency and equipment life and will offer some examples with Lessons Learned.
Energy and Carbon Transition Plans: Using Audits and Retro-Commissioning to Create and Achieve your Goals.
This session is meant to discuss the process of creating an energy and/or carbon transition plan for the building systems in your portfolio of facilities. There are multiple steps in the process to develop these plans, including equipment condition assessments, energy/carbon audits, retro-commissioning and more. This process does need to include the building ownership and operators to establish goals and developing the actual planned improvement measure implementation schedule. The intent of this plan is to be proactive in how your facilities will achieve your potential net zero energy or carbon neutrality pledges.
Building Readiness: Evaluating your systems and using Monitoring Based Commissioning to prepare for the next pandemic
Pandemic safety measures have placed new constraints on physical access to HVAC systems. Remote monitoring and modern data analytics software offers paths to evaluate building system performance, including those that can impact the transmission of infectious aerosols. During this session, a brief overview of the current understanding of how aerosols are transmitted, and the impact HVAC systems play in that transmission will be reviewed. Importance and use of accessing the BAS remotely will be discussed. Through consistent monitoring and evaluation of the HVAC systems it is possible to evaluate outdoor air flow, balancing the fresh air requirements for mitigating the spread of the virus and the associated increase in energy consumption. This presentation will focus on how consistent monitoring of the building’s systems can optimize future buildings for numerous use cases, including comfort, energy, and safety to be prepared for the next pandemic.
Control of Infectious Aerosols
ASHRAE, through its Epidemic Task Force, provided timely leadership in responding to the COVID19 pandemic from March 2020 through June 2022. At the request of the White House, ASHRAE undertook its own project Warp Speed to build on that expertise for the future. In December 2022, the ASHRAE Board committed to quickly writing a standard to make buildings more resilient against infectious aerosols ahead of the next epidemic. In only four months the project committee created and won approval for ASHRAE Standard 241-2023. In this Lecture a member of the 241 project committee will provide a summary of the standard including its purpose, scope, and key requirements with supporting background.