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ASHRAE Fellow Named to National Counterterrorism Panel

A Fellow of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) has been appointed to a National Academy of Science panel on countering terrorism.
Lawrence Spielvogel, P.E., a consulting engineer in King of Prussia, Pa., will serve on the "Science and Technology for Countering Terrorism: Panel on Energy Facilities, Cities and Fixed Infrastructure." He is the only heating, ventilating and air-conditioning engineer on the panel.

The panel is one of several panels operating under the Academy's Committee on Science and Technology for Countering Terrorism. Panelists will identify current concepts and opportunities for research that will reduce the nation's vulnerability to terrorism directed at energy facilities, buildings and other essential, fixed infrastructure elements. A report from the panel will be issued in fall 2002.
"This is the most unique, complex and challenging assignment that engineers face today," Spielvogel said. "A multidisciplinary approach will be required. It also requires understanding the conditions that exist in the many and varied existing buildings, infrastructures and facilities."

Spielvogel serves as chair of the ASHRAE Standard 90.1 project committee, Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings. He is past chair of the ASHRAE Standard 105 project committee, Standard Methods of Measuring and Expressing Building Energy Performance.

He also has served on and chaired ASHRAE technical committees on energy utilization, computer applications and service water heating, and on the Research and Technical committee.

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