2024/2025 ASHRAE December Newsletter:
Join Us at Rodizio Grill Hamilton Place
For our December Meeting (12/4/24)
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PLEASE NOTE: the presentation will start promptly at 12 pm. Servers will start cutting meat at 11:45. You are welcome to arrive as early as 11:30. The salad bar and hot side bar will be available from then on. Meat carving will stop no later than 12:15 pm.
Our Speaker this month is Daly Cull.
Daly Cull from A6 Sales (A.O. Smith rep) will be here to discuss current DOE rules for commercial electric water heaters and upcoming major changes to commercial gas units. He will review current manufacturing restrictions on tank-type electrics and the specification options on how to schedule to achieve gallon/wattage configurations to match your project needs. Upcoming 2026 elimination of several current commercial gas technologies will also be reviewed to avoid designing obsolescence into jobs that may stretch into 2026 or beyond. Daly was raised in the plumbing industry (distribution and contracting) and has been with A6 Sales for 3+ years. He has been covering East Tennessee for the last year has recently been given responsibility to cover the engineering community in East Tennessee as well. AO Smith operates eight facilities in Tennessee and employs over4000 Tennesseans. A6 Sales, LLC has been the A.O. Smith manufacturers rep for the last 8+ years for the state of Tennessee.
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Upcoming Events:
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ASHRAE President Knight Meets with Governor of Tennessee
ASHRAE President Dennis Knight met with Governor Bill Lee of Tennessee to discuss issues facing the HVAC-R and engineering industries, with a strong focus on workforce. Governor Lee, a mechanical engineer who served as President and CEO of his family’s engineering and facilities company from 1992 to 2016, has made workforce development a central issue to his governorship. Among other topics, President Knight and Governor Lee discussed new and existing mechanisms for funding HVAC training, policy recommendations to stimulate the HVAC workforce, and active ASHRAE student branches at community colleges in Tennessee.
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