The largest source of a vivarium's energy consumption and carbon emissions is the significant use of outside air required to provide high ACH dilution ventilation.  In the past a prescriptive approach to ventilation was advocated that made it difficult to save energy in vivariums.  Recently however, ILAR and AAALAC have adopted a performance based approach to ventilation that embraces both VAV and demand based control techniques that can slash HVAC energy use.  This presentation will review these industry changes and provide detailed case study analyses of energy and first cost impacts of applying demand based control (active IEQ monitoring) and other savings approaches into different climate zones.

Bio:  Gordon P. Sharp - Aircuity, Inc.
Gordon P. Sharp is the Chairman of Aircuity, Inc., which he founded in 2000.  Previously, Mr. Sharp was also the founder and CEO of Phoenix Controls and has more than 25 US patents to his name.  He is a graduate of MIT with bachelors  and masters degrees in electrical engineering.