New ASHRAE Standard Provides Method Of Test On Determining Heat Gain Of Office Equipment
ATLANTA – The growing use of plug loads in buildings as well as insufficient data on how much energy they generate present a challenge to engineers in determining how to best cool a building. Guidance to meet that challenge is contained in a new standard from ASHRAE. ASHRAE/ANSI Standard...
Outstanding Achievements Recognized At ASHRAE's Annual Conference
ATLANTA —Ninety-four people will be recognized by ASHRAE for their contributions to the Society and the built environment industry at the Society’s 2015 Annual Conference held here June 27-July 1. Louise and Bill Holladay Distinguished Fellow AwardRaymond Cohen, Ph.D., P.E., Fellow...
CIAR 2015 - MADRID - Spain
The XIII Ibero American Congress of Refrigeration and Air Conditioning will be held in Madrid, Spain, April 28 to 30, 2015. Its central theme is in search of An Efficient Air Conditioning and Refrigeration. Juan José Quixano Burgos, President of FAIAR and ATECYR welcome our community to this ...
ASHRAE HVAC Design Training
Level I & II Training Offered – Register for Both and Save HVAC Design: Level I – Essentials When: January 9 - 11, 2017 | Orlando, FL Cost: $1,264 (ASHRAE Member: $1,009) Company Discount: Enroll 3 or more participants from the sa...
ORCID now in Science and Technology For The Built Environment
ASHRAE and Taylor & Francis announce the integration of ORCID identifiers (IDs) into articles published in ASHRAE’s archival journal, Science and Technology for the Built Environment (formerly HVAC&R Research). ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a registry of unique re...
Free Cooling for Data Center
©2014 This excerpt taken from the article of the same name which appeared in ASHRAE Journal, vol. 56, no. 10, October 2014. By Mukesh K. Khattar, Ph.D., Fellow ASHRAE About the AuthorMukesh K. Khattar, Ph.D, is energy director at Oracle in Redwood Shores, Calif. He is a past member of ASHRA...
ASHRAE announces the 2014 Green Building Standard version
ATLANTA - New requirements to further reduce energy and environmental impacts of buildings are contained in the 2014 version of the green building standard from ASHRAE, the U.S. Green Building Council and the Illuminating Engineering Society. ANSI/ASHRAE/USGBC/IES Standard 189.1-2014, Sta...
Program Set For ASHRAE 2015 Energy Modeling Conference: LowDown Showdown Announced
ATLANTA – ASHRAE has announced the technical program for its “Energy Modeling Conference: Tools for Designing High Performance Buildings,” Sept. 30 to Oct. 2, 2015, in Atlanta, Ga., at the Atlanta Marriott Buckhead Hotel and Conference Center. The Conference focuses on the pr...
New Duct Sizing Calculator Available
ATLANTA – A new duct sizing calculator from ASHRAE and the Air Distribution Institute (ADI) allows HVAC air distribution system designers to more accurately size ducts, especially flex ducts under varying amounts of compression, based on research results. The Duct Size Calculator is a qu...
First Building with BEQ label in Colombia
The General Direction of Bancolombia s the first building in Colombia that certifies their energy consumption practices through the new program for energy labeling of buildings, BEQ, from ASHRAE. Fuel consumption per kilometer helps us decide which car to buy, the nutrition labels on foods help us ...
