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News from ASHRAEs Annual Meeting
The first major update since 1989 to Standard 90.1, “Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings,” from the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) and the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA) was approved at ASHRAE’s Annual Meeting in Seattle in June. The new Standard 90.1-1999 is expected to reduce energy use by 16% over the 1989 Standard. In addition to technical changes, the revised Standard is written in code language, for easy adoption by government bodies as an energy code.
At the same Annual Meeting, ASHRAE adopted a “Climate Change Position Paper” recommending that buildings be evaluated to reduce climate change impacts related to energy use and refrigerants. Copies of the paper can be downloaded at no charge fromPublished October 1, 1999 Permalink Citation
(1999, October 1). News from ASHRAEs Annual Meeting. Retrieved from https://www.buildinggreen.com/newsbrief/news-ashraes-annual-meeting
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