Iowa History

ANNUAL CRC REPORT - 2026

Chapter #051


CHAPTER PROGRAM ACTIVITIES

  • Virtual Meetings - Ethics & Tech Hour
  • Iowa State Student Night and Fitch Aquatic Center Tour
  • Joint Meetings with Green Design Conference, SMCI, USGBC
  • DL Jim Coogan - Guideline 36 Update
  • Refrigeration Meeting - Safer A2L Adoption
  • SuperTech - 
    • Displacement Induction Ventilation
    • Unlocking AI in Buildings
    • Applying FEI to Optimize Fan Systems
  • DSM Fire Station #4 LEED Tour
  • Habitat For Humanity Volunteer Day

CHAPTER TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER

  • DL Jim Coogan Guideline 36 Update
  • Virtual Meetings
    • Julia Keen - Ethics
    • ASHRAE 365 Tech Hour - IEQ - Codes, Impact on People, and Considerations

MEMBERSHIP PROMOTION

  • January Member's Night with New Member Recognition
  • Life Member Recognition at June Meeting

  2025-26 2024-25 2023-24
Area-Assigned Members (without students) 333 316 310
Chapter Dues Paying Members (CDPM) 257 224 252
New Members to Date (AAM) 34 29 17
Members Delinquent to Date (AAM) 25 25 8

STUDENT ACTIVITIES

  • Joint Student Chapter Meeting
    • (5) $1,000 Scholarships to ISU students
  • Iowa State ME Class Presentations
  • (4) Winter Conference Attendees
  • K-12/STEM Book Reading Event & DMACC Future Fest

  2025-26 2024-25 2023-24
New Student Members 10 19 12
Student Branches 1 1 1
Student Meetings 1 1 2
Students Attending Winter Meeting 4 3 5

RESEARCH PROMOTION

  • Fall Frolic Golf Outing
  • Product Directory
  • Spring Fling Golf Outing
  • Newsletter & Website Sponsorships

  2025-26 2024-25 2023-24
Chapter Goal $23,000 $27,040 $26,000
Total Dollars Collected (thru 4/30) $21,254 $26,634 $17,423

YEA (Young engineers in ashrae)

  • 79 YEA Members
  • December Social
  • St Patrick's Day Social
  • Spring Disc Golf Outing

Government Affairs

  • Day on the Hill - February 25th
    • Iowa Chapter with Cedar Valley and Mississippi Valley Chapters
  • E-Week
    • Sought proclamations
    • Membership email with history component

  2025-26 2024-25 2023-24
# of GAC Activities 1 1 1
# of Officials Identified 13 12 ?


chapter HISTORY

  • This year, the chapter focused on cleaning up a number of loose history ends. Past scholarship winners were identified going back for the past 13 years and posted to our website. We had a handful of past president write-ups and are now down to two to complete. The historian was bestowed several boxes old chapter notes and documents. Those are being scanned, OCR, and will be saved electronically. A few thousand pages have been scanned but we are nearing an end. Future historian’s basements and garages will no longer have to house these! 

    Beyond this work, the historian has focused on newsletter articles and will work to invite ASHRAE Life member to the final meeting of the year where the History Project will be presented. The rest is history folks!

  2025-26 2024-25 2023-24
Chapter Display at CRC Yes Yes Yes


COMMUNICATIONS

  • Monthly Iowa Stalks Newsletter sent via email to membership
  • Event registration sent via email with routine reminders
  • Locally maintained website with link to Region VI domain

Highlights

  • Successful golf outings
  • Continued enhancement of SuperTech event
    • Involvement of local organizations with presenter and table sponsors
  • Social/Family + New Member Night is becoming tradition
  • Continued joint meetings
  • Refrigeration Night
  • ASHRAE 365 Tech Hour
  • Habitat Volunteer Day

success stories

  • Continued membership growth
  • CIQ complete with veteran presence and new faces across more firms
  • Balanced budget
  • At least one event per month
  • CRC booked for May 4th-6th 2028!

lessons learned

  • Well planned events come up short without promotion early and often
  • More touch points = greater RP success
  • Budget regular time to stay ahead of