Topic:

Legionellosis; Risk for Building Water Systems Management

Speaker:

Thomas Watson

Director, Daikin Learning Institute

 Please make note that this meeting will be held at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Waltham, MA on Tuesday December 8, 2015.

The session will be presented by Mr. Thomas E. Watson. Mr. Watson is now the director of the Daikin Learning Institute after spending over 43 years in engineering of air conditioning equipment. He recently was the chief engineer at Daikin Applied responsible for new product for factories in North America, Europe, and Asia. He was in charge of the development of the first centrifugal chiller using a zero ozone depleting refrigerant and the first magnetic bearing high efficiency products in the air conditioning industry. He is the holder of five patents related to air conditioning equipment.

He is a former ASHRAE Society President, a global society of over 55,000 members in 147 countries. For the past two years he has been the chair of the standards project committee that developed the first American National Standard that deals with the management for building water systems to reduce the risk of Legionellosis. He is now leading several international committees in the introduction of a very low global warming refrigerants.