Meeting/Event Information

Max Sherman, Ph.D.

Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA

Dr. Max Sherman is a Staff Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and is senior advisor on residential matters.  His research career spans over 35 years and 200 publications, most of which focus on buildings, energy efficiency, IAQ and HVAC.  His most recognized research areas also include ventilation, thermal distribution systems, infiltration, IAQ and envelope-dominated buildings.  He gives technical lectures frequently and has appeared in the popular media on issues of energy, ventilation and duct tape.

 Dr. Sherman was one of the youngest to be made an ASHRAE Fellow and has had a distinguished career since being elevated including winning the Holladay Distinguished Fellow award—Society’s highest technical level. He has received the Exceptional Achievement award and most recently the Standards Achievement award.  He has chaired SPC 62.2, the committee which developed ASHRAE’s residential ventilation standard.  He served as a Director-At-Large for the Society in 2001-2004 as well as numerous councils and committees.  He continues to be an active member of ASHRAE including work on SSPC 62.2 and international activities. He currently chairs the Presidential Ad-hoc committee on the Residential Market.

We all know that buildings must be ventilated.  Ventilation is the V in HVAC.  ASHRAE was founded for the ventilation industry, but we rarely think about why we ventilate or how we came to the standards we have now.  Dr. Sherman will provide background on why ventilation was and is important and where some of the research is going.  He will touch on the issues related to the history of ventilation and ASHRAE as well as what we can look forward to.