ASHRAE looks at making ASHRAE Handbook more "sustainable"
ASHRAE is working to ensure guidance on sustainable design is incorporated in its Handbook to help engineers respond to environmental challenges.
The organization is conducting a review of the sustainability content of all Handbook chapters and is looking at writing a new chapter on sustainability with a view toward integrated building design in its Fundamentals volume. "While the word ‘sustainability' only recently entered the vocabulary of ASHRAE, the Society was involved with sustainable building and HVAC equipment design long before the term was coined," Norm Maxwell, P.E., chair of the Handbook Committee, said.