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Free Online Course: Designing Commercial Spaces with Modern Ceiling Fans, November 12, 9 am - 1 pm PT
Event Description
This workshop focuses on designing commercial spaces with modern ceiling fans and will be of interest to architects, engineers, and builders. The workshop will start out with the context and benefits of providing controlled air movement to occupants as a design strategy. The research findings from a recent $2M, 3-year California Energy Commission funded research grant, including the outcomes of installing automated 99 fans at sites throughout the California Central Valley will be discussed. This study showed improved occupant satisfaction and a 39% measured cooling energy savings, floor-area normalized over the 13 monitored compressors. The workshop will then cover practical topics such as design sizing and selection criteria, application specific guidance, automated and manual control options and user interfaces, ceiling coordination, and install costs. The workshop also includes an in-class audience exercise to design and select ceiling fans for a space and finishes up with an overview of resources available to the public - case studies of buildings, a new web tool, and a design guide.
At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:
Image: Center for the Built Environment
- Background
- Results from installation of 99 automated fans
- Full scale laboratory experiments
- Break
- Performance metrics, sizing, and selection criteria
- Design considerations and controls
- Introduction to web-based design tool with audience exercise
- Design guide other resources
Professional Researcher, Center for the Built Environment, UC Berkeley Paul Raftery’s overarching goal is to improve building energy efficiency by investigating advanced integrated HVAC systems. He has deep experience in HVAC engineering, energy modeling, building automation systems and software development. He has led multi-year research efforts on radiant hydronic systems and on integrated smart ceiling fans and thermostats. He holds degrees in mechanical engineering from the Cork Institute of Technology and a PhD from the National University of Ireland, Galway. In 2008 he was awarded a Fulbright and developed a new method for calibrating building energy models, which he piloted at an Intel manufacturing campus and used in his PhD dissertation. He previously worked as a facilities engineer for a biomedical device manufacturer, and contributed to an automated fault detection and diagnosis tool, which earned the ICT Invention of the Year award.
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