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2025 BCxA Eastern Canada Chapter Student Scholarship Application
2025 BCxA Eastern Canada Chapter Student Scholarship Application "version francaise"
The mission of the Building Commissioning Association is to guide the building commissioning industry through advancing best practices and education and promoting the benefits of building commissioning by providing education and training related to the commissioning process for its Canadian members and the building industry. The mandate of the BCxA Eastern Canada Chapter is to promote the benefits of commissioning within Ontario, Quebec, and the Atlantic Provinces.
Since its establishment in 2009, the BCxA Eastern Canada Chapter has provided leadership in the local building commissioning industry by collaborating with commissioning practitioners and other stakeholders. We promote certification programs and training to uphold the highest standards and practices for the commissioning process.
La mission de (BCA Building Commissioning Association) est de promouvoir et apporter du support à l'industrie de la mise en service de bâtiments en faisant progresser les meilleures pratiques et l'éducation et en promouvant les avantages de la mise en service de bâtiments en offrant des formations liées au processus de mise en service à ses membres et à l'industrie du bâtiment. Le chapitre Canada Est de BCxA est a comme objectif de vulgariser les avantages de la mise en service en Ontario, au Québec et dans les provinces de l'Atlantique.
Depuis sa création en 2009, la section BCxA de l'Est du Canada assure le leadership dans l'industrie locale de la mise en service de bâtiments en collaborant avec tous les intervenants et joueurs clés du milieu.
Aussi notre chapitre s’implique dans les comités des normes et pratique de mise en service au niveau fédéral et provincial ainsi promouvoir les programmes de certification.
Dates
Wed May 28, 2025
- Wed May 28, 2025
Time
06:00 PM
Location
Lavelle – Above King
The BCxA’s (Building Commissioning Association) Eastern Canada Chapter proudly presents, the 2025 BCxA Toronto Summer Social, which brings together a group of global, national, and local practitioners, policy makers, and researchers whose focus is reduction in energy consumption, operating cost, and environmental impact of buildings and industrial facilities.
The ECC would like to give your organization access and visibility among industry leaders by participating in the BCxA Toronto Summer Social. The BCxA Toronto Summer Social is an annual networking event hosted by the BCxA’s ECC. Our BCxA events and conferences are the leading forum for individuals interested in the continuous improvement in operations of buildings and facilities. This 3-hours networking event will have an estimated 100 passionate individuals, which will draw professionals from diverse backgrounds, including building owners and operators, policy makers, architects, designers, engineers, politicians, academics, and students.
To Purchase tickets click here.
This course introduces CO2 heat pumps as a key solution for energy-efficient and low-carbon heating and cooling in buildings. Participants will learn about market trends, refrigerant regulations, system benefits, and practical applications such as hybrid geo-exchange and waste heat recovery.
Date
Time
Location
Online Webinar
Content Overview
This course focuses on the growing role of CO2 heat pumps in building decarbonization strategies. It covers the technical, economic, and environmental advantages of adopting CO2 (R-744) heat pump systems, the evolving refrigerant regulatory landscape, and real-world applications in commercial and industrial buildings.
Key Topics:
-Global trends: rapid growth in heat pump installations
-Role of heat pumps in reducing greenhouse gas emissions
-Advantages of CO2 (R-744) heat pumps: efficiency, flexibility, low GWP
-Regulatory changes: refrigerant GWP limits in Canada and Québec
-Hybrid geo-exchange systems: improving performance and peak shaving
-Waste heat recovery potential in industrial and building sectors
-Case studies: successful CO2 heat pump projects worldwide
-Grid optimization and integration benefits for utilities and building owners
To secure your tickets please use the following link:
2025 BCxA Eastern Canada Chapter/ Heat pump Webinar
Guest Speakers:
Antonino Lagana, Energy Efficiency, Mechanical, Stantec
Expert in mechanical systems and sustainable energy strategies
Antonino, a mechanical engineer, is passionate about energy management, greening and sustainable development. He switched from aeronautical engineering (Pratt & Whitney, CAE) to building engineering in 2002. He is dedicated to energy efficiency, GHG reduction and the promotion of the use of clean and renewable energy. He has designed and implemented various efficiency measures. He continues to carry out energy-efficiency projects and is diversifying into alternative energies and CO2 heat pumps, with a view to contributing to the decarbonization of Quebec.
Dominique Monney, R&D and Innovations Consultant, Copeland
Specialist in heat pump innovation and refrigerant technologies
Dominique Monney is the owner of the consulting company MONDO360 and acts as a research and innovation consultant for Copeland / Vilter where he focuses on the development of strategic and sustainable technologies. He possesses 20 years of international experience in technology integration, manufacturing, engineering, installation, sales, and technical service. He holds a B.Eng from Switzerland and is an expert in refrigeration and heat pump systems using natural or low-GWP refrigerants
Dates
Thu Jun 19, 2025
- Fri Jun 20, 2025
Time
05:06 PM
Location
University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Kelowna, British Columbia
https://ncbfo.ca/ NCBFO coming to Kelowna in June 2025!!!
National Conference on Building and Facility Operations (NCBFO), brings together a group of global, national, and local practitioners, policymakers, and researchers whose focus is a reduction in energy consumption, operating cost, and environmental impact of buildings and industrial facilities.
NCBFO is an annual Canadian conference that has been hosted in alternating years by the Western and Eastern Canadian Chapters since 2014.
It is a conference with diversified presentations related to all aspects of building performance.
Give your organization significant exposure among industry leaders by joining NCBFO Conference. Attendees will have the opportunity to network with global and local leaders in the building and facility operations industry.
https://ncbfo.ca/eastern/events/
BCxA Eastern Canada Chapter will be hosting this webinar on Thursday Jan 11, 2024 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (EST). You are welcome to attend and share with your contacts. Subject: Fundamentals of Variable Speed, Sensorless, Parallel and Redundancy pumping in HVAC Systems Presented by : Andrei Hari, Business Development Manager, Armstrong Fluid Technology
Dates
Thu Jan 11, 2024
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 Eastern Standard TIme
Time
12:00 PM Eastern Standard TIme
Location
MS Teams Meeting link provided below
Conference Slide:
Speaker:
Andrei Hari
Andrei Hari has worked a combined 21 years with Armstrong Fluid Technology. He currently holds the title of Canadian Business Development Manager, concentrating on educating the industry on a systems approach to chilled water, geothermal, heat pump and boiler plant optimization with a focus on an understanding of Demand Based Controls, Digital twins, and the application of
AI, along with the importance of flow control. He has also held roles as US North Central Regional Sales Manager, US National Commercial Sales Manager and US National Sales Manager / Large Projects.
He is a graduate of Ryerson University, with a Mechanical Engineering degree. He has over 30 years of experience in Industrial, Municipal and HVAC pumping and Industrial and Commercial Heat Transfer applications. With this experience, he has spent the last 16 years developing an intricate understanding of HVAC optimization strategies and load distribution systems. This combined experience gives him a unique insight, not only into the mechanical side of Commercial HVAC applications but also a unique perspective on a systems solution approach to flow control, chilled water plant automation and optimization with Demand Based Control methodology, applying Armstrong Fluid Technologies Design Envelope solutions, all based on the basic engineering fundamentals of Fluid dynamics, Heat transfer and Thermodynamics.
Primary Topics:
Variable Flow Control, Affinity Laws, Pump Efficiency and Parallel pump staging, Design for N+1 and system redundancy
Agenda
1. Brief review of how variable speed pumping works. This will cover an understanding of the pump, system and control curves and a review of the Affinity Laws.
2. ASHRAE 90.1 and the importance of DP switch location in a closed loop system.
3. Explanation of how sensorless pump control works.
4. Parallel Pump Control and efficiency-based staging.
5. Duty/Standby (N+1) vs. Operational Redundancy pumping system selection and design.
