Today’s grocery stores often include a wide range of prepared food services and expanded fresh food products, which creates unique challenges in the design process due to the needed balance between refrigeration, food service, and HVAC systems.
Registration for the 2015 ASHRAE Webcast, “New Tomorrows for Today’s Buildings: Existing Building Commissioning,” is now open at www.ashrae.org/webcast.
ASHRAE has announced a call for papers for its 2016 Winter Conference, and the association is looking for the best paper written by a graduate student.
When ASHRAE’s original book on ground source heat pumps was published 17 years ago, such systems were used mainly in residential settings and, according to the association, the designers who used them were seen as risk takers.
A newly revised standard from ASHRAE and IES seeks to provide greater guidance and a more comprehensive approach to retrofit existing buildings for increased energy efficiency.