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Formerly American Institute of Plant Engineers
Charleston - South Carolina
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January Meeting --
Facility Tour -- VA Hospital (Downtown)
Where: 109 Bee Street, Charleston
Directions: Near Lockwood Blvd.
When:
Tuesday, January 18 at 5:30 p.m.Dinner: Ashley's restaurant in the Radison nearby on Lockwood
We hope to see everyone there!!
The Third Annual Spring Golf Outing was a tremendous success! We shattered our donation from last year and far exceeded our goal of $2,500 thanks to all the players and sponsors of the event.
Proceeds are again going to Happy Days & Special Times, a special local charity for children with cancer and their families. This year we are proud to present Happy Days & Special Times $3,075 resulting from our outing!
We sincerely appreciate the efforts of Jack Skipper (BetzDearborn) for working on event coordination. Thanks go out to everyone for their support, sponsorship and participation!
Meeting Call Committee -- If you want to assist with this effort, please contact Jeff Pratt at 761-5025. Thanks to Jeff and to the volunteers!
If you have email, we would like to send you email meeting reminders instead of a phone call. If you aren't currently getting email meeting reminders, please send your email address to jpcrane@charleston.net
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If your company is hiring or if you are looking for a job, please contact one of the officers to get a public or confidential announcement in the newsletter.Other Local Engineering Society News
As a service to our members and to other technical societies in the area, we have agreed to publish activity announcements in our newsletter. If you are interested in seeing other societies noted, please ask one of the officers to coordinate this.
Be sure to check out the new local ASHRAE web site at http://ww.charleston.net/org/ashrae.For more information, please contact Don Tate at 881-3211 or tated@awod.com
For local ASME information, contact the local ASME Chairman, Chris Constantine at 875-3637 or cconstan@cemsengineering.com
Poinsett (Greenville, South Carolina) AFE Chapter No. 59
For the latest newsletter and full information about AFE Chapter No. 59, check out their excellent Web Site at: http://www.afe59.org.Local Member Directory --
Remember, the Local Member Directory has been compiled and distributed to members. If you haven't submitted your Member Profile yet, please contact Membership Chairman Gary Cassino at (803) 875-5628 or gcassino@aol.com for a hard copy of the form or a floppy with the Excel spreadsheet.Tentative 1999 Calendar
-- Please refer back to this site often!
1999
January 19 -- Facility Tour -- Showa Denko Carbon (Ridgeville)
February 16 -- Facility Tour -- Wando Terminal (Mt. Pleasant)
Engineers Week Activities (February)
March 16 -- Y2K, Deregulation Discussion -- Breck's Place (North Charleston)
April 20 -- Facility Tour -- Jacobs Applied Technologies (Goose Creek)
April 23 -- Spring Golf Outing -- Pine Forest Country Club (Summerville)
May 18 -- Facility Tour -- Alcoa (Alumax) (Goose Creek)
June 15 -- Facility Tour -- Okonite Cable (Orangeburg)
July/August -- Summer Break
September 21 -- Facility Tour -- Nucor Steel (Wando)
October 19 -- "Issues Forum"
November 16 -- Facility Tour -- Georgia Pacific (Holly Hill)
December TBD -- Holiday Social
WHERE HAVE WE BEEN?
September, 1998 marked the 3 year anniversary of our efforts to organize and start up Charleston Chapter 186. We started with a handful of interested individuals (5 or 6 at organizational meetings) and now enjoy a membership of over 50!The following is a list of facilities we have toured since February, 1996:
Cummins Engine, Chem-Marine Terminal, Futrex, Alumax, Showa Denko Carbon, Bayer Dorlasten Facility, Robert Bosch, Albany International, Nucor Steel, Blue Circle Cement, Albright & Wilson, Post & Courier, SCE&G Williams Station, Gates Rubber, Williams Technologies, Charleston Place Hotel, Westvaco, Bayer Waste Water Facility, USPS Charleston Processing and Distribution Facility, GS Roofing, Coburg Dairy and Okonite Cable.
Not bad for a start! If you know of a facility that would be interesting to tour, or if your facility would be interested in allowing us to tour, please contact one of the officers or
DHEC Air Regulations May Affect Operation and Maintenance
Activities
Several industries are questioning DHEC's authority for O&M oversight. In fact, DuPont Nylon is in the process of appealing a recent construction permit primarily for this reason.
How will this affect facility engineers? Additional record keeping will be required. Any changes you make to O&M procedures for air pollution control equipment will have to be documented and submitted to DHEC as a modification to your O&M plan. Furthermore, if scheduled maintenance activities are not performed exactly as specified in the O&M plan, even if there is technical justification, your facility could be subject to a permit violation. If it is a federally enforceable permit, you may also be subject to other penalties including citizen suits.
What can I do to prevent this? First, you should carefully review any construction permit issued to your facility by DHEC and request that this permit condition be removed. Secondly, you can write a letter expressing your opinion of this issue to:
Environmental Management Association of South Carolina
P.O. Box 745
Camden, SC 29020
For more information on this issue, please contact:
Richard Moore at General Engineering (803) 769-7378 or rpm@gel.com
Targeting Members -- One of the benefits of the change from AIPE (American Institute of Plant Engineers) to AFE (Association for Facilities Engineering) was opening membership to more than just "plant engineers". Our local chapter has not yet reached out to commercial and institutional facility managers and engineers. With the number of hospitals, colleges and office buildings in our area, there are many facility professionals who may be interested in networking and joining our organization.
If you know managers or engineers in a commercial or institutional facility or if you are a supplier to these professionals, please invite them to join us for a tour as a guest. If you know someone we should add to the newsletter mailing list, please contact one of the officers.
Web Site -- If you have comments or suggestions for the web site, please contact Jeff Crane at (843) 884-1946 or jpcrane@charleston.net
| CHAPTER OFFICERS | (Email Links Underlined & In Blue) |
| President: Roger Leaphart, P.E. (843) 820-4346 | Director: Don Tate (843) 881-3211 |
| Vice President: Tim Walker, P.E. (843) 760-7423 | Director: Gary Cassino (843) 724-3468 |
| Secretary: Tom McGreevy, P.E. (843) 849-0250 | Director: Jeff Pratt (843) 761-5025 |
| Treasurer: Paul Albers (843) 884-3064 | Membership: Pat Hunkler (843) 820-6244 |
The NewsLetter & Web Updates are published monthly by AFE Charleston Chapter #186. For Local Chapter Sponsorship, Newsletter
Contributions or E-Mail, Web Page Assistance Thanks to: Jerry Bender
of AFE Poinsett Chapter No.59 |
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