Pat Duffy

To kick-off the new calendar year we had a great presentation from Michael Tillou from Cannon Design on "What is ASHRAE 90.1, 2010". Michael is a voting member on the standard and was able to give substantial insight into the development and scope of the code intended energy standard. The meeting was well attended with over 95 people in there for the meeting.

The upcoming meeting on Wednesday February 8th (note it is not typical Tuesday) will be the 100th anniversary of the Boston Chapter (to the day). We will celebrate this milestone with a special meeting to celebrate the chapters history and recognize past Boston Chapter Presidents. If you have any historic pictures from your company or HVAC in general please email me an electronic copy. We are attempting to put a slideshow together with a compilation of photos from the chapters history.

The speaker for the February meeting will be Steve Tafone (past president) on "Lessons Learned". Steve always keeps the audience engaged and this will no doubt be a fun meeting with lots of practical knowledge shared.

On another note, we will soon be moving to online electronic payments for the monthly meetings. We hope to have this ready for the February meeting, but at the latest it will be available for the March meeting. This change will help to speed up the check-in process. Cash or check will still be accepted at the door for a period of time while everyone gets used to the new system of payment.

Pat Duffy, President