Short Description

This class will allow you to evaluate geothermal designs, advise clients adeptly and design systems yourself. You'll have plenty of materials to reference later when you're on a project and need to resurrect all the learned best practices.

Price: $795.00

Detailed Description:

Course Summary

This two-day class will allow you to evaluate designs, advise clients adeptly and design systems yourself. You'll have plenty of materials to reference later when you're on a project and need to resurrect all the learned best practices. Earn continuing education credits while you're at it (16 credits for attending both days). Take a final examination to earn a Entry Level Geothermal Professional Certificate. This credential demonstrates a fundamental understanding of geothermal design.

Course Locations

Call (866)715-7737 for current course availability

Exact Locations in each city will be emailed to you two weeks prior to the course.

Course Content
* HVAC fundamentals and how they apply to geothermal design

* Top ten list of "things to watch out for" as you advise your clients based on 30 years experience from your instructor

* Technical design best practices

* Overview of system types - pros and cons and advice

* Hands-on design activities - walk through an example from A to Z

* Review of project bids and designs brought in by class members and discussed

* Realistic costs and expected performance data from experts and people in the know

* How to 'sell' a geothermal system

* Potential problems and how to troubleshoot - what to watch out for

* Identify good and bad designs

* Recommendations on software and design resources - free demos available to all attendees.

Who Should Attend

Over half the class is made up of Engineers and HVAC professionals. Builders, Consultants and Drillers are the most significant professional groups represented after that. In all classes we have a variety of trades people in professions such as an Architect, Geologist, Hydrogeologist or Career Changer that have an interest in the green building profession. Given this mix of students the discussion among these different groups tends to be outstanding and the instructor's technical expertise makes him uniquely qualified to moderate.

Additional Benefits

1. This course will save you and your client time and money. You will save enough time and money on your next geothermal project to pay for the course.

2. We will demystify the design process by walking through it from A to Z.

3. Software is available for purchase (with alumni discount) or you can use a free demo version - bring your computer.

4. Learn how to identify inefficient designs. This will include a discussion of how HVAC fundamentals apply to geothermal design.

5. Find out how much a geothermal system should cost and how it will really perform (data, local experts, any way we can get them real, useful information).

6. Take a final examination to earn HeatSpring's Entry Level Geothermal Professional Certificate. This credential demonstrates a fundamental understanding of geothermal design.

7. The instructor provides a top ten list of things to watch out for as you advise your clients.

8. Bring your own project bids and designs to class to get an expert's advice on them.

Certificate Benefits:

• Demonstrates Geothermal Knowledge
• Differentiates You From Peers
• Get Listed on the Geothermal Directory
• Access to Network of Geothermal Companies

Course Outline:

Day 1

* 7:45 am - Registration - Coffee and Light Breakfast Served
* 8:00 am - How Ground/Water Source Heat Pumps Work
* 8:30 am - Introduction - Nomenclature, Overview, Applications Ground-Coupled, Ground Water, Surface Water
* 9:30 am - Advantages: Characteristics of Quality GSHP Installations Disadvantages: Limitations and Lessons Learned
* 10:15 am - Advantages and Disadvantages (continued)
* 11:00 am - Pathways to Efficiency: Low Energy Buildings, Simple GSHPs, Quality Design/Installation
* 12:00 pm - Lunch
* 1:00 pm - Residential GSHPs - Example DIY Building IMprovement to Lower Loop Cost
* 1:30 pm - Residential GSHP Design 1) Vertical 2) Horizontal 3) Lake Loop
* 2:30 pm - Heating, Cooling, Water Heating Cost Estimator
* 3:15 pm - Residential Economics Payback and Mortgage Financing
* 3:45 pm - Equipment - Water/Air Heat Pumps, Standards, Specifications, Performance
* 4:30 pm - Outdoor Air Options with GSHP\'s
* 5:00 pm - Adjourn

Day 2
* 7:45 am - Coffee and Light Breakfast Served
* 8:00 am - Introduction to Closed Ground Loop Design and Ground Thermal Properties
* 9:00 am - GchpCalc Software for System Design, Design Optimization and Alternatives for Reduced First Cost, Pipe Size/Spacing, Equipment, Hybrid Systems
* 11:00 am - Ground Field Layout, Installation, and Indoor Piping, E-Pipelator Software
* 12:00 pm - Lunch
* 1:00 pm - Ground Water Heat Pumps
* 2:30 pm - Ground Water Heat Pump System Design
* 3:00 pm - Surface Water Heat Pumps, System Design
* 4:00 pm - Impact of design Quality on the Economics of Commercial GSHP\'s
* 4:30 pm - Adjourn

About the Instructor:

Steve Kavanaugh
Energy Information Services PhD

Dr. Kavanaugh has been involved with ground source heat pump research and development for 20 years. He is the author of two books on the subject and has published several articles in the American Society of Heating, Ventilating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Transactions and Journal. He is a co-author of the ASHRAE book, Ground Source Heat Pumps: Design of Geothermal Systems for Commercial and Institutional Buildings. He is the former chair of ASHRAE Technical Committee 6.8 on Geothermal Energy, has served as a consultant to many electric utilities, and has conducted over one hundred GSHP design seminars for design professionals.

Dr. Kavanaugh has been a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alabama since 1985. He teaches courses in HVAC, Energy Conservation, Heat Transfer, Instrumentation, Senior Design I and II, and Capstone Design. His publications include 34 refereed journal articles, 15 refereed conference articles, 17 conference articles, 25 research reports, and numerous design notes. He also developed GCHPCalc, a software package for large GSHP system design.

Price: $795.00