Hello everyone,

This is Angela Wang, new president of BCIT ASHRAE Student Chapter.
Thanks for Joseph Cheung who suggested me to take this position.
Firstly, I want to give you a brief introduction about myself.
I'm a third year mechanical engineering student at BCIT. Before I came back to BCIT. I was a mechanical systems designer, worked for a mechanical consulting company (Rocky Point Engineering Ltd.) for eight years. I hope my professional experience will fit in this role well, and I will try my best to approve it.


Best Regards,

Angela Wang
President of BCIT ASHRAE Student Chapter

UPCOMING EVENTS for BCIT Mechanical Systems students

VIADUCT LTD 

November 2, 2016, at 1pm 

Viaduct Ltd is inviting students for a presentation about their product and services

Location: 18425 53 Ave, Surrey, BC

CIPHEX WEST

November 2, 2016: 10am-8pm

November 3, 2016: 10am-4pm

CIPHEX West is the largest event for the HVAC, plumbing, Hydronics and water treatment industry in Western Canada.

• Gain industry and technical knowledge with world-class education at the most affordable prices you’ll ever find
• Discover new products, new suppliers, new ideas and new solutions to make you more successful
• Check out new products and services in an interactive environment
• Make important connections with other people in your industry
• Meet the technical experts who can give you the information and skills you need

Location: Vancouver Convention Center

BCIT Mechanical Systems- Ipex Presentation

BCIT Mechanical Systems- Ipex Presentation

The presentation was held on Oct 14 in SW9 building of BCIT Burnaby campus.
The presentor was a Technical Services Representative of Ipex: Patrick Maguire.
Patrick talked about Ipex products such as PVC and PEX pipes and fittings. Big part of presentation was directed towards different types of thermoplastics and their properties. BC Building Code standards on pipes were also covered as well as fire protection methods.

TELUS Garden Buildings Presentation

Hello!

Thank you Goran Ostojic, Vice President of Western Canada, and Kenneth Ng, Senior Mechanical Engineer, from Integral Group for their presentation for the TELUS Garden buildings at BCIT on April 18, 2016.

From left to right: Kenneth Ng (Integral Group), Goran Ostojic (Integral Group), Dr. Joseph Cheung (BCIT Mechanical Engineering Systems Program Head),
Manny Daid (Student Activity Chair, ASHRAE BC), 
Ali Zahedi (Prism Engineering), Darrell Li (BCIT ASHRAE President)

Goran and Kenneth provided great insights to Vancouver's greenest office tower and explained their process to achieve LEED Platinum certification for the office buildings. The TELUS Garden project cost $750 million Canadian dollars and some of the key design highlights include: radiant heating and cooling, high performance triple glazed windows, displacement ventilation system, solar PV arrays on the roof, rain-water collection for utilization for flushing of toilets, and a unique district waste-to-energy system which provides 80% of the building's heating and cooling demands from the TELUS data center across the street.

Thank you for all the students who came out to listen and learn from Goran and Kenneth. Please keep an eye out on this website and on your e-mails for upcoming events.

- Blanco

YEA Networking Social Event

Hello!

We are pleased to announce the YEA Networking Social Event hosted by ASHRAE BC Chapter. This event will be happening Thursday, April 28th, 2016 at 6:00 pm, We will be joining the "Young Engineers in ASHRAE (YEA)" members on a brewery crawl in East Vancouver. Drinks are NOT included and must be purchased. Members will be meeting at Strange Fellows Brewing Company at 6:00pm.

The tentative route for the brewery crawl will be as follows, starting at:

1. Strange Fellows Brewing Company
2. Off the Rails Brewing
3. Bomber Brewing
4. Callister Brewing
5. Possibly More!

If you are interested in going to this event, please RSVP to Mike Kasuya, YEA Chairman at 604-363-3951 or YEA.BC.Chapter@gmail.com.

Hope you can make it to this event to network with ASHRAE members in the industry. Please continue to check this blog regularly to find out about future events BCIT-ASHRAE will be a part of.

Blanco

Van Dusen Botanical Garden Tour

From left to right: Ken Newbert (Integral Group), Jim Huffman (Perkins+Will), John Ross (City of Vancouver), Dr. Steven Rogak (UBC Faculty), Darrell Li (BCIT ASHRAE), Samarth Joshi (UBC ASHRAE)

The Van Dusen Botanical Garden tour was a great success! Thank you to Ken Newbert, Jim Huffman, and John Ross, from Integral Group, Perkins+Will, and the City of Vancouver respectively, for presenting the BCIT and UBC ASHARE student chapter members with more information about the living building challenge, the hardships encountered during the design process and the solutions that were used.

As mentioned by Manny Daid, Student Activities Chair (ASHRAE BC), if you are graduating this year, you may be interested in the dinner meetings that ASHRAE BC hosts. These events are great opportunities to expand your network. To register for these dinner meetings, you must sign up to be an ASHRAE member on their website here.

Thank you to the attendees from the electrical engineering, architectural building technology, and mechanical systems departments. We hope that you can come out to our future events.

Blanco