[NHCOLL-L:3753] Environmental control course online March 3

[Helen Alten]

MS211: Preservation Environments
Instructor: Ernest A. Conrad
Dates: March 3 through 28, 2008
Price: $425
Location:  www.museumclasses.org

Description:
Discover what an HVAC is and why some work better in one type of 
structure than another. Learn how to use a psychrometric chart to 
predict potential problems in your museum. Find out about LEED 
buildings and the future of museums. Become familiar with MERV, HEPA, 
and other terms used by your building engineers. Preservation 
Environments is essential for any institution considering a new 
building - and any institution planning to expand or rebuild an 
existing one. Participants learn the advantages and disadvantages of 
numerous methods of temperature and humidity control. Preservation 
Environments does not try to turn museum professionals into 
engineers. Rather, it arms them with the knowledge they need to work 
with engineers and maintenance professionals.

Course Outline
1.      Introduction
2.      Climate Control Basics
3.      Monitoring and Psychrometrics
4.      Water  The Enemy
5.      Preservation Tomorrow
6.      Conclusion

Logistics
Participants in Preservation Environments work at their own pace 
through six sections and interact through online chats. Instructor 
Ernest Conrad is available at scheduled times for email support. 
Preservation Environments includes online literature, slide lectures 
and student-teacher/group-teacher dialog. The course is limited to 20 
participants.

Preservation Environments runs four weeks. Sign up at 
www.museumclasses.org and pay for the course at 
http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html. If you have trouble 
completing an on-line order, please contact Helen Alten at 
helen at collectioncare.org or Eric Swanson at eric at collectioncare.org

Student Comments:
The content was excellent; the instructor is obviously an expert in 
the subject matter and it was great learning from him!

I thought the lectures were great. Very easy for a person with no 
experience in this subject to understand.

The Instructor:
For over 20 years, Mr. Conrad has focused on environmental issues. He 
is president of Landmark Facilities Group, Inc., an engineering firm 
specializing in environmental systems for museums, libraries, 
archives and historic facilities.  A licensed mechanical engineer in 
several states, Mr. Conrad holds a bachelor's degree in civil 
engineering and a master's in environmental engineering from Drexel 
University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

A well-respected and honored member of many professional 
organizations, his greatest contribution to the preservation field 
was the development of environmental guidelines for engineers who 
work on museums, libraries and archives.  The American Society of 
Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc. (ASHRAE) 
publishes standards in the areas of HVAC and refrigeration. Mr. 
Conrad recently co-authored the ASHRAE Applications Handbook "Chapter 
20:  Museums, Libraries and Archives."  For the first time, there are 
guidelines specific to our needs in the engineering literature.

Mr. Conrad has studied environments and designed special climate 
control systems throughout the United States for clients as 
well-known as the National Gallery of Art, Library of Congress, The 
Frick Collection, Getty Conservation Institute, The Pierpont Morgan 
Library, National Trust for Historic Preservation, and National Park 
Service. He has a special interest in house museums and how climate 
affects structures and collections housed within those structures.
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