Boarding the ship will begin at 6:00 pm and the cruise will leave the dock at 6:30 pm sharp. Each participant will receive a ticket for the funiculaire – a type of outdoor elevators that takes you down to the lower level of Quebec City. We recommend that you depart the hotel and make your way to the funiculaire by 5:45 pm. Shuttles will be available to take everyone back to the hotel following the dinner cruise.

• Denis Beaudin, Conference Co-Chairman
• Rémi Demers, Conference Co-Chairman
• Gerald Hodder, TIAC President

• Contractors – Laval Room
• Distributors – Bellevue Room
• Manufacturers – Petit Frontenac Room

The Mechanical Insulation Design Guide, known as simply “MIDG”, was developed to provide insulation specifiers, manufacturers, distributors, contractors, and facility owners a single-source, web-based information resource about mechanical insulation.  As part of the Whole Building Design Guide, it is readily available to anyone, free of charge, and can help in system design, as well as improve the appreciation of the importance of mechanical insulation in a facility’s overall performance.  This presentation will review the MIDG, describing the contributions of each part to improving some or all of these objectives: condensation control, energy performance, financial savings, process control, personnel safety, freeze protection, noise control, and several others. 
The parts addressed will include:

• Design objectives
• Materials and systems
• Installation
• Design data
• Use of calculators
• Resources

Special Presentation – Bellevue Room
Synopsis – Presentation on Plan Nord Opportunities to the Thermal Insulation Association of Canada by Daniel Hansen, President, Hansen Affaires Publiques
• Daniel Hansen

Daniel Hansen, a public affairs and government relations strategist with over 20 years of experience in these fields of activity, is known for his vast network, strategic skill, determination to surpass objectives and knowledge of municipal and government circles. Daniel Hansen has many accomplishments to his credit, both in the private sector (private and public enterprise) and in the government sector (federal and provincial). Actively involved, Daniel Hansen is a member of the Board of Directors of the largest food bank in Canada, Moisson Montréal, and of the third largest chamber of trade and industry in Quebec, the Montreal South Shore Chamber of Commerce & Industry. For many years, he has served on the Board of Directors of the Agence de l’efficacité énergétique du Québec, Quebec’s energy efficiency agency.

Plan Nord represents 25 years of investment amounting to a total of approximately $80 billion. During his presentation, Mr. Hansen will discuss the following items:

• A description of the regions affected by Plan Nord
• The Plan Nord 2011-2016 Action Plan by the Government of Quebec
• Business opportunities

InsulGuide is a very flexible and unique software oriented towards the mechanical insulation market. It is directed to the Mechanical Engineers and Contractors, General Contractors, Plant Engineers and other individuals involved in selecting mechanical insulation and accessory products.

The mechanical insulation industry is vast and offers an extremely large variety of products with many different characteristics and attributes. Finding the right product meeting a specific requirement for a given project or application can represent a significant challenge when deadlines have to be met. Reviewing hundreds of technical data sheets in multiple catalogues from a variety of manufacturers hoping to find the product whose characteristics will, in the end, meet the spec, is very expensive time wise and a pure waste of energy. 

InsulGuide greatly simplifies this whole proces. It consolidates all this pertinent information into one extremely useful search tool. Think of is as a replacement to “sweet’s” catalogue, but with all the information condensed, digested, computerized, interactive and entirely dedicated to your market.

• Does the product meet ASTM XXXX
• What is this products ‘k’ value at 100oF?
• Is the product combustible?
• Does the product help obtain valuable LEED credits?
• Where is this product manufactured?
• What sizes are available?
• What is the service temperature?
• Is this product corrosive?

Or

• List all the products that meet ASTM XXXX
• List all products that offer between 0 and 25 surface burning and compare them?

This is a very small sampling of questions that this software can answer for you and all this faster than you can say “WOW”

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