President's Message
Mississippi ASHRAE Members,
I hope everyone enjoyed a great Summer this year. We are excited to start the year for the chapter. I’d like to start off by thanking our president from last year, Thomas Wiygul, on all his hard work representing the MS ASHRAE chapter. Because of his dedication, Thomas and our chapter received several awards and recognitions of excellence at Region VII CRC which was held in Louisville, KY this July.
We will continue our monthly meetings at the same time (the 3rd Wednesday of the month) and at the same location (Mama Hamil’s) starting this September 20th. The year will kick off with a presentation by Joel Faulkner of Honeywell on the subject of ‘ASHRAE Guideline 36 from a Controls’ Contractor’s Perspective’. This is a guideline created by ASHRAE to try to develop standardized control sequences for HVAC systems. We’re eager to hear Joel’s take on this. The remaining dates, speakers, and topics are posted on our MS ASHRAE website. I encourage you all to read through them and try to make it to all our meetings so we can make sure our presenters’ time is well used.
As always, we will not meet in December, and we will have the golf tournament in April 2024. We are planning to have a different type of meeting in March. We will have a joint meeting between the MS chapter and the Memphis chapter. This will be held at the University of Mississippi on March 27th, 2024. Currently the plan is for this to be at least a ‘half day’ event with two (2) sessions followed by a round table panel discussion. There is a lot of preparation and planning going on for this by your chapter officers and committee chairs. We would love to show some appreciation for the time that they have volunteered to manage this logistically by having a strong turnout of participation from our members.
I am excited to serve as this year’s president. With the great group of officers and chairs we have, it should make for a great and productive year. Please visit the MS ASHRAE chapter website often to be on the lookout for updates, upcoming events, etc. regarding our chapter.
I look forward to seeing you all at our first meeting.
Murphy Guillotte
News and Events
Chapter
FALL FUNDRAISER
Stay tuned for a Fall Fundraiser.
spring FUNDRAISER
We will have the spring fundraiser golf tournament in April. This will include golf for teams of 4 as a fundraiser for our local chapter. There will also be a crawfish boil at the tournament.
Society
2024 Winter conference and ahr expo
The 2024 ASHRAE Winter Conference will be held in Chicago, Illinois at Marriott Marquis McCormick Place January 20-24, 2024.
The link to the conference can he found here.
2023 ASHRAE Building Performance Analysis Conference
ASHRAE will host the annual Building Performance Analysis Conference September 11-13, 2023 at the Hyatt Regency Austin, in Austin, Texas. This will be the tenth consecutive ASHRAE modeling conference and 12th overall. Designers, Architects, Consulting Engineers, Building Owners, Principals of Firms, Researchers, Utility Providers, Policy Experts, Contractors and Facility Managers will address the practices of energy modeling and building performance simulation using existing simulation tools, software development and future simulation research and applications.
The link to the annual conference can be found here.
ashrae region vii
The Mississippi Chapter is part of ASHRAE Region VII. The Director and Regional Chair (DRC) is Chris Gray. Region VII is made up of 14 chapters.
To visit the ASHRAE Region VII website click here.
ashrae MISSION AND VISION
Mission: To serve humanity by advancing the arts and sciences of heating, ventilation, air conditioning, refrigeration and their allied fields.
Vision: A healthy and sustainable built environment for all.