Guidance on how to incorporate changes regarding building envelope, lighting, mechanical, and the energy cost budget in the 2013 energy standard from ASHRAE and IES are included in a newly published User’s Manual.
ASHRAE has announced that its building energy rating and labeling program known as Building Energy Quotient (bEQ) now qualifies as an energy rating option for buildings in the state of Florida.
The 2014 ASHRAE Handbook—Refrigeration, which covers refrigeration equipment and systems for applications other than human comfort, is now available for purchase.
The unique challenges required for HVAC design in rail passenger vehicles are being addressed in a proposed guideline from ASHRAE now open for public comment.
Preliminary analysis from the U.S. Department of Energy shows that the ASHRAE/IES’s 2013 energy efficiency standard contains energy savings over the 2010 standard of 8.5% source energy and 7.6% site energy.
A new track added to the Technical Program at ASHRAE’s 2014 Annual Conference will address the challenges engineers face when designing ground source heat pumps.