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Jeffrey Schultz

Jeffrey Schultz
Br&A Consulting Engineers
Ph. 617.925.8242
Email: jhs@brplusa.com

Below, please find a list of currently active or recently completed research projects and grants. The list was taken from www.ashrae.org. These projects and grants were awarded within Region 1 during the summer of 2009. The Boston chapter is a member chapter of Region 1. Last year, we as an individual members, nonmembers and companies contributed $15,793.00. This amount represents a shortage of our goal which was $19,280.00 which had been assigned to the Boston chapter by Region 1. The grand total of Boston along with the other fourteen chapters in our region was $143,489.00. If you look at the $696,873.00 given to researchers and students in Region 1 alone, it is a no brainer that New England gets back almost five times the money it contributes. Over $200,000.00 comes back to the Boston area alone. Let's continue to stimulate research! Please contribute to Research/ Promotion.

Cost	Research Title or Subject	Contractor	Notes
$ 199,186.00	Development of an ASHRAE Design Manual for District Heating and Cooling Systems	GWA RESEARCH - LYME, NH
$ 147,687.00	Develop a Radiant System Module for the Simulation and Analysis of Spaces and Systems	WRIGHTSOFT CORP -LEXINGTON, MA
$ 160,000.00	Energy Efficiency and Cost Assessment of Humidity Control Options for residential Buildings	BLDG SCIENCE CORP - SOMERVILLE, MA
$ 150,000.00	Measuring Air-tightness of Mid- and High-rise Non-residential Buildings	WISS, JANNEY, ELSTNER ASSOCIATES, INC	New
$ 10,000.00	Experimental Evaluation and Modeling of Sorbent- Based Gas-Phase Air Cleaners	SYRACUSE UNIV. - Lingjing Pei	Graduate Student Grant-in-Aid
$ 10,000.00	Emission Characteristics of Office Furniture and Modeling of Multi-Layer Assembly in Office	SYRACUSE UNIV.- Jing Xu	Graduate Student Grant-in-Aid
$ 10,000.00	Development of a Simulation and Knowledgebased Expert System for Integrated Building Environmental System Design, Analysis and Optimization	SYRACUSE UNIV-Wei Feng	Graduate Student Grant-in-Aid
$ 10,000.00	Integrated Testing and Modeling Approach for Evaluation of Performance of Building Enclosure in Specified Climate and Service Conditions	SYRACUSE UNIV.-Thomas Thorsell	Graduate Student Grant-in-Aid
$ 696,873.00

Did you know that 100% of your tax deductible contribution given for research goes directly to research? All administrative costs that are incurred come from other ASHRAE funding. So what are you waiting for? Research money doesn’t grow on trees, BUT, trees will continue to grow from research. Please log on to www.ashrae.org and click on "Quick Links". Then, click on " Research Promotion" where you will learn where your dollar goes. This will tell you more than I can.

Please don’t be shy! Donate a little or as much as you can. Thank you! Your contribution is greatly appreciated. Please fill out the form in this newsletter and mail it to me with whatever contribution you can make or please go to the ASHRAE Boston website at www.ASHRAEBoston.org. Click on the Donation Form under Research & Promotion, or go there directly with this link:
http:// www.ashraeboston.org/researchpromo/donationform.html

Credit card payments can also be made when you’re on the ASHRAE website. Use this link: https://www.ashrae.org/aboutus/ resource_promotion.asp

Thank you!