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ASHRAE Promotes Environmental Design, Issues New Guide

December 18, 2006 // Published as a news service by IHS

 
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The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers Inc. (ASHRAE) published the ASHRAE GreenGuide: The Design, Construction and Operation of Sustainable Buildings to help teach designers how to participate effectively on design teams charged with producing green buildings.

"This is a design guide for mechanical engineers who are interested in advancing integrated, high performance/green concepts and applications on building design projects," said Malcolm Lewis, Ph.D., a member of the ASHRAE technical committee on building environmental impacts and sustainability, which wrote the book.

"The guidance will help building professionals analyze system design options and point them in the right direction for deeper analysis."

The book is an updated version of the 2003 ASHRAE GreenGuide. The updated book features a new chapter outlining guidance on the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Rating System developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).

The chapter discusses ways in which LEED credits affect engineers and how they can best respond to the opportunities presented by the use of LEED on projects.

The book also contains a new chapter on how heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration (HVAC&R) systems interact with the local environment and methods for mitigating or reducing that impact.

"There are some areas that are either not intuitively obvious as being potential impacts of HVAC systems or are items that some may not consider to be truly sustainable issues," Lewis said.

The updated ASHRAE GreenGuide contains more than 40 GreenTips, which are sidebars containing information on techniques, processes, measures or systems. The tips contain a list of other sources for reference. To read the GreenTips, visit http://www.engineeringforsustainability.org.

The guide is the first in a new series of books, known as The ASHRAE Professional Series, which is intended to provide professional information for HVAC&R engineers as well as professionals in related fields.

The ASHRAE GreenGuide is available for $62.95 for ASHRAE members and $79.95 for non-members.

Source: American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers Inc. (ASHRAE).

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DIN V 18599-1
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DIN V 18599-2
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DIN V 18599-3
Energy efficiency of buildings - Calculation of the net, final and primary energy demand for heating, cooling, ventilation, domestic hot water and lighting - Part 3: Net energy demand for air conditioning
DIN V 18599-4
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DIN V 18599-5
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DIN V 18599-6
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DIN V 18599-7
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DIN V 18599-9
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DIN V 18599-10
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DIN EN 15316-3-2
(DRAFT) Heating systems in buildings - Method for calculations of system energy requirements and system efficiencies - Part 3-2: Domestic hot water systems, distribution; German version prEN 15316-3-2:2005
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DIN EN 15316-4-6
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