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.
The City of Chicago now recognizes the ASHRAE-Certified Building Energy Assessment Professional (BEAP) as a data verifier credential under the city’s new Energy Benchmarking Ordinance.
New tests and test improvements are now included in the newly published version of ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 135.1-2013, Method of Test for Conformance to BACnet.