Florida Building Commission

Mechanical Technical Advisory Committee

Meeting Minutes

June 25th, 2014

                  

Meeting Location:  Teleconference Meeting from Tallahassee, Florida

 

TAC/POC Members and Objectives

TAC Members Present Via Teleconference:; Steven Bassett, Chair; Larry Banks; Oscar Calleja; Joseph Crum; Alex Hernandez; Elizabeth Goll; Don Pitmann; and Pete Quintela 

TAC Members not Present: Joseph Crum, Dan Griffin, Garry Griffin, Pedro Quintela

Staff Present: Mo Madani, Jim Richmond, Ila Jones, Jim Hammers, April Hammonds, Marlita Peters, Joe Bigelow, Robert Benbow, Zubeyde Binici, Norman Bellamy

Facilitator: Marlita Peters

Guests: Jeffrey K. Sonne, Robin K. Vieira

Ø Objectives: To Approve the Agenda and Minutes of the April 8th, 2014 meeting. To accept the final report on a research project.

 

Meeting Minutes

Objective

Discussion of objectives included the following: 

1)

 

2:31 PM Welcome and Opening, Roll Call.  Slight delay in starting the meeting due to technical difficulties, also a delay as we needed one more TAC member to reach a quorum. A quorum was reached a few minutes later.

Marlita Peters, facilitator for the Florida Building Commission, provided a welcome and a brief overview of the agenda items to be presented.

2)

Agenda and meeting Minutes for the April 8th, 2014 Mechanical TAC meeting were approved unanimously by the committee members.

3)

The TAC received the final report on the research project. The report “A Review of Home Airtightness and Ventilation Approaches for Florida Building Commission Research.” A presentation was given by the authors of the report guests Jeffrey Sonne and Robin Vieira from FSEC. 

Afterwards the, Chair Mr., Bassett proposed that some research be done concerning this research report and ventilated attics. Mr. Sonne recommended a report done on that subject by Danny S. Parker for FSEC.

Jim Richmond issued a short statement concerning the reports Disclaimer.

Rob Vieira also recommended that the all interested could participate in a related report due to the Energy TAC on June 26th. 

Don Pittman moved to accept the report, which was seconded by Larry Banks. The report was accepted by the TAC unanimously.

4.)

Next item was to propose possible research projects to be taken up by the TAC. No research projects were proposed by the TAC.

Comment from the public by Rob Vieira concerning report in Item 3. Concerning possible use of reports on mechanical ventilation from out of the state. Also EPA Energy Star houses and other mech ventilation systems in Florida. Also determining how these systems are working. This item was not acted on by the TAC.

 

Other TAC Business – Meeting opened for public comment, no public comment received. Having no other TAC business, the meeting was closed after a Motion and Second to Adjourn.

 

Adjourn: 

 

Staff Contacts: Norman Bellamy, Government Operations Consultant (850) 717-1834 Norman.Bellamy@myfloridalicense.com or Mo Madani, Manager mo.madani@dbpr.state.fl.us (850) 717-1825