Chapter Meeting Minutes 09/02/2022
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Chapter Name: ASHRAE UK Midlands Chapter – Conference Call
Meeting Date: 9th February 2022
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Chapter ☐ BOG ☒ Section ☐
Attendance: (Total for chapter and section meetings only)
Members 9 Guests 6 Students
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Joint Meeting? Yes ☐ No ☒
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Technical Speaker/Program: Yes No ☒
PRESENT |
APOLOGIES |
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Members:
Eric Roberts (ER) Saziye Dickson (SD) (chair) Mahroo Eftekhari (ME) Joshua Vasudevan (JV) Edward Murphy (EM) Patrick Prendergast (PP) Amr Suliman (AS) Ashwaq Mohammed (AM) Georgios Vlachos (GV) Dimitrios Tsilipiras (DT) Ljubomir Jankovic (LJ) Alkis Triantafyllopoulos (AT) Frank Mills (FM) Ijaz Shah (IS) Enea Tseno (ET)
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Students:
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Darren Wilkinson (DW)
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Preliminaries
- Roll Call and Quorum
- Call to Order
Ethics Statement
In this and all other ASHRAE meetings, we will act with honesty, fairness, courtesy, competence, inclusiveness and respect for others, which exemplify our core values of excellence, commitment, integrity, collaboration, volunteerism and diversity, and we shall avoid all real or perceived conflicts of interests.
- Chapter Goals
- Serve as liaison between an individual member and ASHRAE
- Make every Chapter meeting worthwhile
- Provide professional and personal growth opportunities
- Attract the best graduates to HVAC&R
- Approval of Agenda (Below)
REVIEW OF AGENDA
- Single UK Chapter survey results (15 mins)
- Sustainability Committee (5 mins)
- PAOE (historical &GA) (10 mins)
- Letter for IAQ for Local Community (10 mins)
- Newsletter - ASHRAE Job Board ( 5 mins)
- Winter Conference and YEA update (5 mins)
- AOB
The agenda was accepted as written.
1. Apologies
DW
2. Minutes of the last meeting
None available
3. Single UK Chapter survey results
341 eligible members total
330 UK members contacts were available
138 opened the poll email
56 responded to the email
For – 55
Against - 1
40 signatories required by ASHRAE to form new chapter – currently being sought
75% of members vote required to dismantle a chapter and 50% are required to carry it.
A further meeting to help to move forward
4. Sustainability Committee
New members for the sustainability have been found to form the committee.
Co-chair being sought
JV & ME to follow up and report at next meeting
5. PAOE (historical & Government Affairs)
Points sought against these categories
Separate call to be arranged with FM and DT to discuss points
6. Letter for IAQ for Local Community
SD to do not yet done.
1 page A4 document to be sent out to local business
FM to proof read before distribution
FM & EM to discuss
7. Newsletter - ASHRAE Job Board
Not relevant for UK Chapter
8. Winter conference report
JV Attended, Part of LeaDRS programme. Attended Board of Directors meeting. Seeking to make ASHRAE as a household name
Meeting with CIBSE graduates, discussion around future joint Young Engineers event
9. AOB
None