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COMMEN COMMENCOMMENTARY
TARY
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DIRECTOR OF ASHRAE PUBLICATIONS & EDUCATION
Mark S. Owen
EDITORIAL
Editor
John G. Falcioni
jfalcioni@ashrae.org
Managing Editor
Kelly Barraza
kbarraza@ashrae.org
Technical Editor
Rebecca Matyasovski
rmatyasovski@ashrae.org
Associate Editor
Tani Palefski
tpalefski@ashrae.org
Associate Editor
Chadd Jones
cjones@ashrae.org
Assistant Editor
Kaitlyn Baich
kbaich@ashrae.org
Creative Designer
Teresa M. Carboni
tcarboni@ashrae.org
PUBLISHING SERVICES
Publishing Services Manager
David Soltis
Production
Jayne Jackson
ASHRAE MEDIA ADVERTISING
Associate Publisher
Greg Martin
gmartin@ashrae.org
Advertising Production and
Operations Senior Coordinator
Vanessa Johnson
vjohnson@ashrae.org
Circulation Development Coordinator
Austin Brafford
abrafford@ashrae.org
ASHRAE OFFICERS
President
Farooq Mehboob
President-Elect
Ginger Scoggins, P.E.
Treasurer
Dennis Knight, P.E.
Vice Presidents
Billy Austin, P.E., BCxP, BEAP, BEMP,
HBDP, HFDP, OPMP
Dunstan Laurence Macauley III,
P.E., HBDP
Sarah Maston, P.E., BCxP
Ashish Rakheja
Secretary & Executive Vice President
Jeff H. Littleton
POLICY GROUP
2022 - 23 Chair
Publications Committee
Gerardo Alfonso, P.E.
Washington Offi ce
washdc@ashrae.org
Showcasing Innovation
W
e begin the new year with a renewed promise to
showcase the ingenuity and technical advancements that-
as ASHRAE's mission states-advance the profession, serve
humanity and promote a sustainable world.
Our fi rst issue of 2023 previews next month's AHR Expo
at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta (ahrexpo.
com). This is the annual event cosponsored by ASHRAE
and AHRI that showcases the technology innovations of hundreds of
exhibiting companies. The Expo also features workshops, seminars and
training sessions. AHR Expo is co-located with ASHRAE's Winter Conference
(www.ashrae.org/2023winter), which comprises its own technical programs
and assorted events. Together, the integrated experience represents the
industry's most important HVAC&R technical event of the year.
In advance of the conference and Expo, organizers released to the
public the industry's annual trend report (https://tinyurl.com/4nzjfjr9),
which highlights the hottest industry topics, including decarbonization,
regulations, supply chain recovery, workforce and cybersecurity.
" Embracing change will infuse a new dynamism in our industry at all levels,
bringing new knowledge, technology and tools in a timely fashion, helping
us to successfully navigate the rapidly changing world, " said ASHRAE
President Farooq Mehboob, Fellow ASHRAE, in the trend report.
We've taken Mehboob's words on change to heart. So this year, we're
bringing new and diverse voices and more varied content to
ASHRAE Journal. You will see new " feature " articles added to our mix of
conventional technical features. We've also rearranged the order of content,
moving most of our columns to the front, and the more technical articles to
the back. We also moved the always insightful writings of Andy Pearson to a
dedicated page, so that it's easier to fi nd. It will now be our bookend piece
each month-his Refrigeration Applications column is on page 56.
This month's feature focuses on the work of former ASME President Julio
C. Guerrero, Ph.D., and William Worek, Ph.D., Fellow ASHRAE. Theirs is
a project to heat the modest and frigid homes in remote Peruvian Andean
territories, where cold temperatures leave numerous casualties every
winter. The article starts on page 34.
Their work illustrates the impact that engineers have on serving humanity.
Our work is to showcase these and other engineers who, because of the
humility of the profession, don't always receive the exposure they deserve.
John G. Falcioni
John G. Falcioni
ASHRAE Journal Editor
Mission Statement: ASHRAE Journal reviews current HVAC&R technology of broad interest through publication of application-oriented articles. ASHRAE Journal's
editorial content ranges from back-to-basics features to reviews of emerging technologies, covering the entire spectrum of professional interest from design and
construction practices to commissioning and the service life of HVAC&R environmental systems.
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