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Small Commercial Buildings Energy Requirements Develop
As part of efforts to make its energy standard more "efficient,"
the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers
is developing specific guidance for smaller and simpler buildings.
Compliance methods for such buildings will be included in each chapter of ASHRAE
Standard 90.1, Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings,
when next issued in 2004.
The methods will provide minimum prescriptive requirements for the energy-efficient
design of small commercial buildings, according to Lawrence Spielvogel, chair
of the committee.
"The compliance methods will cover the majority of commercial buildings
being built, without the complications, options and criteria necessary to cover
larger buildings," Spielvogel said.
The inclusion of the methods was discussed at ASHRAE's 2002 Winter Meeting
held Jan. 12-16. The committee plans to incorporate the information in addenda
to be issued for public review later this year.
Spielvogel said that about half of all buildings covered by Standard 90.1 are
5,000 square feet or smaller, and most of these buildings use packaged HVAC
and hot water systems. Complex HVAC systems and controls and automatic controls
for lighting are rarely used or required.
The compliance methods would provide requirements for the design and construction
of new buildings and their systems, new portions of buildings and their systems,
and new systems and equipment in existing buildings. They would apply to building
envelope, HVAC, service water heating and lighting systems, he said.
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