Atlanta ― ISH North America 2008 (ISH NA) announced its efficient technologies and renewable energy-focused seminar track, structured to educate professionals on the growing use of green applications within their field.
“Our participants are members of an industry whose greatest opportunity lies in the renewable energy and sustainability segment,” said Daniel McKinnon, executive vice president of Messe Frankfurt, the show’s organizer. “This ISH NA seminar track seeks to turn these opportunities into areas of success for our attendees.”
Highlighted green-focused sessions include:
- “The Research Required for Successful Implementation of New Water Efficient Technologies” by Peter Demarco, director of special programs for IAPMO, who will discuss how plumbing systems can continue to run as required during the course of upgrades
- “Water Reuse and Water Reclamation” by Julius Ballanco who will describe attempts to move toward a “greener” plumbing design and review how to comply with codes and protect public health with these new systems. Ballanco is president of JB Engineering and Code Consulting, P.C.
- “An Introduction to the GreenPlumbers Program” will feature Steve Lehtonen, managing director of GreenPlumbers USA, an organization that helps plumbers utilize green strategies in their work, discussing how businesses can benefit from GreenPlumbers’ understanding of the availability and cost of water and energy
- “Why Hydronic Distribution Systems are a Deep Shade of Green Technology” and “Ten Trends that will Shape the Future of Hydronic Heating,” presented by John Siegenthaler, an associate professor of engineering technology at Mohawk Community College, will address the use of hydronic heating, showing why it is beneficial and how to use it. In addition to teaching, Siegenthaler has over 28 years experience designing modern hydronic heating systems and has published extensively on the topic
Participants will have a special opportunity on the last morning of ISH NA to discuss a wide assortment of topics with Dave Yates and Mark Eatherton, the only two recipients of the Carlson-Holohan Industry Award of Excellence. This award, created in honor of Gil Carlson and Dan Holohan, is presented every other year to an exemplary professional in the steam and hydronics industry.
This seminar, “Two Real Sharp P’s in a Bright Green Pod,” is provided by ISH North America at no cost to registered attendees and will cover state-of-the-art green technologies from solar thermal, ground source heat pump, solar PV and hydrogen fuel cell technology, to high-efficiency space and water heating, waste heat recovery and mini-split inverter systems that have very high SEER and HSPF ratings.
Taking place over three days, October 1-3, at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, ISH NA’s seminar series will also offer marketing, operations, product and strategy instruction by some of the top names in the industry.
For a full ISH North America 2008 seminar schedule and additional information on each of the sessions, visit
www.ish-na.com/seminars.htm.
For more information about Messe Frankfurt, please visit our Web site at
www.messefrankfurt.us.
Other upcoming ISH events worldwide:
- - ISH North America (1-3 October 2008), Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- - ISH (10-14 March 2009), Frankfurt, Germany
- - ISH China (winter of 2010), Shanghai, China
