Next Meeting

Next Chapter Meeting Tuesday, March 9, 2010
CFD Analysis for Building Comfort Systems Design
(Research and Promotion Night)
Featured Speaker: Daniel H. Nall, FAIA, PE., LEED AP

The presentation will describe the nature of computational fluid dynamics analysis and will document several applications of the analysis tool within the context of a building services engineering design practice. Following the initial discussion of CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics), its origins, its approach, and process, several applications will be presented. These applications include comfort analyses, involving building envelope configuration and air diffusion strategy, air temperature variation within a plenum, natural ventilation feasibility, water vapor diffusion, and pollutant (cigarette smoke) diffusion. Finally the limitations of computational fluid dynamics analysis are discussed as well as the potential for other applications in the building services field.

Daniel H. Nall, FAIA, PE., LEED AP
WSP Flack + Kurtz

As Director of Sustainability for WSP Flack + Kurtz, he is responsible for the integration of sustainable solutions for all WSPFK offices and for liaison with the parent company, the WSP Group.

He is a Fellow of the AIA, an ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer, a member of the Urban Land Institute, NY Chapter Council on Sustainability the ASHRAE Advanced Building Energy Labeling (ABEL) Committee and the BOMA, NY Chapter Sustainability Committee. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the USGBC NY Chapter, the AIA National Committee on the Environment; was an author of four of ASHRAE’s Advanced Energy Design Guides and was vice-chairman of the USGBC Energy & Atmosphere Technical Advisory Group. He is a member of the New York City Dept. of Buildings Sustainability Review Board, and was one of Engineering News Record’s “Newsmakers of 2007.” He was a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania School of Architecture, at the Princeton University School of Architecture and was Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture at Columbia University.

He has been involved with energy efficiency in buildings for over 30 years. Projects with which he has been involved include, the TRW World Headquarters, the Alcoa World Headquarters, the New York Times Headquarters, the Hearst Corporation Headquarters, the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Center, and the SAP USA Headquarters Expansion. A graduate of Princeton University and Cornell University, he is a Registered Architect, a Professional Engineer, and a LEED Accredited Professional.

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