President’s Message

Richard Watters, P.E.

Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a happy and healthy holiday season and is ready to continue the momentum we started with ASHRAE during the last few months of 2011.

Thanks to everyone that attended our last meeting in November. This was an enormously successful joint meeting with BOMA. It was so successful that we doubled our pre-registration numbers. Sorry if this caused a problem to any of you. Please look for meeting invites in your email and RSVP whenever possible; it really helps.

Though we did not have a meeting last month, the Board of Governors did meet and continued to lay out plans for this year. We continue to have some exciting programs and activities planned. Look for information in this newsletter regarding this month’s meeting presentation on Data Centers. This is a hot topic for our industry as we see another push to cloud storage and cloud computing. Please join us!

As 2011 drew to a close, our local job market saw growth in private, industrial, and some federal projects all trying to allocate money before deadlines passed. It kept some of us pretty busy, and hopefully means continued activity through the beginning of this year. Keep a close eye on schools and universities in our area.

In Fort Worth ASHRAE business, our number of delinquencies has dropped to 22. This is great progress from our last issue. Please check with us at the next meeting (or online at www.ashrae.org) if you are not sure if you are up-to-date with your membership.

This month, we will be meeting on the 40th floor of Carter::Burgess Plaza. See you there!

Sincerely,

Richard Watters
Chapter President