Meetings

Omaha & Lincoln Section Meeting

Air Treatment 101 with Kim Cowman and Josh Roth

Zoom Meeting, Link provided upon registration and payment

Tuesday, November 10th; presentation starts at 12:00 p.m.

Air Surrounds us at all times. On any given day we breathe over 15,000 liters of air, more than the volume of water and food we put into our bodies combined. But the quality of air in our indoor environments is often unknown. This presentation will cover the codes, standards, technologies and strategies that currently exist to address and improve air quality for better productivity and health indoors, and also discuss how we plan for the future and unforeseen non-normative conditions as the industry looks to implement resiliency in design and operations.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the benefits of good indoor air quality (IAQ)
• Relate IAQ benefits to better productivity and health for occupants
• Review codes & standards that address IAQ
• Differentiate technologies and strategies to improve IAQ
• Identify resilience planning opportunities for the future and unforeseen conditions

National Director of Engineering Kim Cowman, PE, LEED AP, HFDP, leads engineering across LEO A DALY. She is based in the firm’s Omaha studio. With 18 years of design experience, she has led design of precision mechanical infrastructure for large healthcare complexes and hospitals. She has also led interdisciplinary design teams for a variety of project types. Kim has authored articles in Medical Construction & Design and Healthcare Design magazines, and her expertise has appeared in Forbes and Engineering-News Record, among others. Kim serves on national committees for the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) and lectures regularly at the University of Nebraska-Omaha.

Josh Roth is a mechanical engineer, LEED Green Associate and LEED AP BD+C. His passion for data-driven design and optimization of building systems lends itself to project sectors including corporate office buildings, religious, education, and retail. Josh also has experience in sustainable project administration and environmental design utilizing a variety of third-party rating systems including LEED, WELL, and Fitwel, and is working internally at Morrissey Engineering to enhance the process of building performance modeling with engineering and architectural design.