Please join us for a meeting recognizing our past presidents and a presentation on our new ASHRAE headquarters!

Tim McGinn, P.E., HBDP, ASHRAE Society Vice President

Meeting Topic: Designing the New ASHRAE Headquarters

Date / Time: October 19, 2021 - Time 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Presentation Synopsis:

Your new ASHRAE Headquarters has just finished construction in Atlanta Georgia and has been occupiable since October, 2020 although lightly used due to Covid restrictions. The 66,000 square foot 1970’s era urban office is under heavy renovation into a leading edge example of a net zero energy facility. Tim was the Chair of the Technical Advisory Subcommittee of the ASHRAE Headquarters AdHoc Committee. Tim will outline the necessity of the new headquarters, the design process and resulting design that takes the building toward net zero energy without a compromise in indoor environmental quality.

Presented by: Tim McGinn, P.E., HBDP, ASHRAE Society Vice President

Mr. McGinn is a professional engineer with degrees in both mechanical and electrical engineering. Tim has been partners in a national multi-discipline engineering firm, a national MEP firm and the latest; a national integrated architectural and engineering firm. Tim’s passion is a specialization in designing low impact/low energy systems for green buildings that maximize indoor environmental quality. For the last twenty-five years while in Calgary, Tim has applied and adapted the use of European HVAC technologies in North America, using displacement ventilation, natural ventilation, TABS (thermally active building systems), underfloor air distribution, low temperature radiant heating and high temperature radiant slab and panel cooling. Tim is based here in Calgary, is retired, is a past-president of the Southern Alberta and Manitoba Chapters, and is currently an ASHRAE Society Vice President.