# Presentation: 687076

## Commercial Green Building Standards

- DOE Building Energy Codes
- 2006 National Workshop
- Denver, Colorado

## ASHRAE

- 54,000 Members in 135 countries
- 99 Technical Committees
- 110 Standards Project Committees
- 45 Standing Committees
- 14 Regions, 170 Chapters
- 5000 Members in active roles
- 2000 meetings per year

## ASHRAE Mission

- To advance the arts and sciences of heating, ventilating, air conditioning and refrigerating to serve humanity and promote a sustainable world

## 2006 Strategic Plan

- Lead the advancement of sustainable building design and operation
- Become a world class provider of education and certification programs
- Position ASHRAE as a premier provider of HVAC & R expertise
- Be a global leader in the HVAC & R community

## ASHRAE Activities

- Research
- Standards Development
- Publications
- Education
- Certification

## ASHRAE Documents

- Standards
- Guidelines
- Position Papers/Position Documents
- User’s Manuals
- Handbooks
- Special Publications (e.g., Advanced Energy Design Guides)

## Position Documents

- Ammonia as a Refrigerant (January 26, 2006)
- Building Sustainability (June 23, 2002)
- Climate Change (July 1, 2004)
- Energy (January 30, 2003)
- Environmental Tobacco Smoke (June 30, 2005)
- Indoor Air Quality (February 10, 2005)
- Legionellosis (June 25, 1998)
- Minimizing Indoor Mold Problems through Management of Moisture in Building Systems (June 30, 2005)
- Ozone-Depleting Substances (February 1, 2001)
- All are available for free download from web site www.ashrae.org

## ASHRAE Standards

- 118 Active standard/guideline projects
- 51 standards/guidelines proposed
- 49 standards/guidelines under revision
- 3 standards undergoing reaffirmation
- 15 standards under continuous maintenance

## Best-known StandardsIndoor Environment

- Standard 55 – Thermal Environmental Conditions for Human Occupancy
- Standard 90.1 – Energy Efficient Design of New Buildings
- Standard 62.1 – Ventilation for Acceptable IAQ

## Standards vs. Other Documents

**ASHRAE Standard: **
- consensus document
- developed by balanced committee
- under ANSI and ASHRAE rules
**ASHRAE Guideline:**
- document that may or may not be consensus based
- balanced committee desirable but not required
- ASHRAE rules, but not ANSI rules

## Some of Our Partners

- USGBC
- IESNA
- ARI
- EPA
- DOE
- NFPA
- ICC
- ACCA
- SMACNA
- Associate Society Alliance

## ASHRAE Standards Activities

- ANSI Audited Designator
- Emphasis on balanced committees
- Obsession with “consensus”
- Rigorous review process

## Overview of Standards Process

- Any person or organization can submit a proposal to develop a new standard
- Standards Committee approves proposal and recommends development of the standard, Board of Directors approves new standard
- Technical Committee assigned responsibility and recommends chair

## Overview of Standards Process

- Project Committee formed and develops draft
- Draft undergoes 30-45 day public review, all comments answered
- After comments resolved, approval by PC, Standards Committee, Technology Council, Board of Directors

## Standards vs. Other Documents

**Other ASHRAE Documents**
- Advanced Energy Design Guides
- Handbooks
- Position Papers
- User’s Manuals
- Research Projects
- Wide-range of interests sought, but committees not required to be balanced or reach consensus
- Documents may undergo peer reviews, but changes not required and no veto power by reviewers

## Code Interaction Subcommittee

- Monitors ASHRAE documents that either are or could be referenced in codes
- Submits code change proposals
- 14 “Code Intended” and 10 “Not Code Intended” documents are referenced by either ICC, NFPA,  or ASME codes
- Open to non members of ASHRAE

## Becoming More “Code Friendly”

- Use of mandatory language
- Moving some tabular information to informative appendices
- Extracting essential provisions from complex standards
- Scheduling releases to match code revision cycles

## Recent Code Change Proposals

- ICC hearings September 2006
- 3 proposals for Standard 62.1
- 7 proposals for Standard 90.1

## Sustainability

- Definition from the ASHRAE GreenGuide:
**“****Providing for the needs of the present without detracting from the ability to fulfill the needs of the future”**

## Sustainable Buildings

- Minimum energy and water consumption
- Utilization of renewable energy resources
- Minimum atmospheric emissions
- Minimum waste streams
- Minimum site impact
- Native materials
- Good indoor environmental quality

## ASHRAE and Sustainability

- 1975 – Standard 90-75 “Energy Conservation in New Building Design”
- 2003 – ASHRAE GreenGuide
- 2005 – Engineering for Sustainability
- 2006 – Sustainability Roadmap
- 2007 – Standard 189 “Standard for the Design of High-Performance Green Buildings”

## GreenGuide

- Step-by-step manual for the entire building lifecycle
- Covers construction, operation, maintenance, and eventual demolition
- Includes 29 "Green Tips," specific measures for improving sustainability

## Advanced Energy Design Guides (AEDG)

- Documents that go 30%, 50%, and 70% above Standard 90.1-1999
- New Buildings (30%):
- Small Office Buildings - published
- Small Retail – publish in 2006
- K-12 Schools
- Warehouse
- Highway Lodging
- Existing Buildings (30%)

## The ASHRAE Promise – A Sustainable Future

- 2007 Presidential Theme – Terry Townsend
- Building performance metrics - 2008
- Energy and water use
- IEQ and acoustics
- Carbon equivalent rating system - 2008
- Construction
- Operation

## The ASHRAE Promise – A Sustainable Future

- Standard 90.1 to be 30% more stringent by 2010
- Expedite Advanced Energy Design Guides
- 30% Guides by 2008
- 50% Guides by 2011
- 70% Guides by 2016
- “Net-Zero” guidance by 2020

## Sustainability Roadmap

- Foster sustainable buildings
- Conduct ASHRAE affairs sustainably
- Give research into sustainability priority
- Integrate sustainability into publications
- Partner with compatible organizations
- Educate and inspire the current and next generation of members

## Walking the Talk

- 2007 Winter Meeting to conform to “green meeting” guidelines
- New headquarters facility for ASHRAE to meet LEED Gold criteria
- AHR Expo in Dallas to have section devoted to sustainable products
- Funding approved to accelerate AEDG

## Why This Convergence on Sustainability

- Energy resource pressure
- Atmospheric physics
- Health concerns
- Waste stream concerns
- Need for life cycle assessment
- ASHRAE’s long standing focus on energy and indoor environmental Quality

## Concerns for the Code Community

- Performance based standards vs. prescriptive standards and codes
- Need for codes to describe maintenance and operation of complex systems

## Standard 189

- Standard for the Design of High-Performance, Green Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings
- Partners:
- USGBC
- IESNA

## Standard 189

**1. Purpose:** The purpose of this standard is to provide minimum requirements for the design of high-performance, green buildings to:
- (a) Balance environmental responsibility, resource efficiency, occupant comfort and well being, and community sensitivity, and
- (b) Support the goal of the development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

## Standard 189

**2. Scope:**
**2.1** This standard provides minimum criteria that:
- (a) Apply to new buildings and major renovation projects (new portions of buildings and their systems): a building or group of buildings, including on-site energy conversion or electric-generating facilities, which utilize a single submittal for a construction permit or which are within the boundary of a contiguous area under single ownership
- (b) Address sustainable sites, water use efficiency, energy efficiency, the building’s impact on the atmosphere, materials and resources, and indoor environmental quality (IEQ).

## Standard 189

**2. Scope (continued):**
**2.2** The provisions of this standard do not apply to:
-  (a) single-family house, multi-family structures of three stories or fewer above grade, manufactured houses (mobile homes) and manufactured houses (modular).
-  (b) buildings that do not use either electricity or fossil fuel.
**2.3** This standard shall not be used to circumvent any safety, health or environmental requirements.

## Standard 189

- Standard is to specify minimum criteria for buildings that are identified as high-performance green buildings
- Standard is not a rating system such as USGBC’s LEED or GBI’s Green Globes
- Standard should be suitable for adoption as code

## How to Get Involved

- Join a committee (_[http://www.ashrae.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/22185](http://www.ashrae.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/22185)__)_
- Attend meetings as an observer
- Join the committee e-mail distribution list
- Review the standards discussion forum (_[http://membership.ashrae.org/template/DboardPosts/forumid/102](http://membership.ashrae.org/template/DboardPosts/forumid/102)__)_

## Submit a public review comment (http://www.ashrae.org/template/TechnologyLinkLanding/category/1634) 
Submit a change proposal (http://www.ashrae.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/22851)
Recommend a new standard or guideline (http://www.ashrae.org/template/PDFDetail/assetid/22895)
Sign up for the ASHRAE Standards Action List Server (http://resourcecenter.ashrae.org/store/ashrae/newstore.cgi?categoryid=367&categoryparent=215)

- Submit a change proposal (_[http://www.ashrae.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/22851](http://www.ashrae.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/22851)__)_
- Recommend a new standard or guideline (_[http://www.ashrae.org/template/PDFDetail/assetid/22895](http://www.ashrae.org/template/PDFDetail/assetid/22895)__)_
- Sign up for the ASHRAE Standards Action List Server (_[http://resourcecenter.ashrae.org/store/ashrae/newstore.cgi?categoryid=367&categoryparent=215](http://resourcecenter.ashrae.org/store/ashrae/newstore.cgi?categoryid=367&categoryparent=215)__)_

**How to Get Involved (cont.)**

## ASHRAE and Commercial Green Building Standards

- ASHRAE is committed to leading the advancement of sustainable building design and will include sustainability elements in all ASHRAE documents
- Standard 189 will be a consensus based document developed by a balanced committee in accordance with rigorous ANSI requirements

## ASHRAE and Commercial Green Building Standards

- ASHRAE is anxious to work more closely with code professionals to make our standards “code friendly”
- ASHRAE would welcome the participation of more code professionals on our Standards Committee, Code Interaction Subcommittee, and Standards Project Committees

## ASHRAE and Commercial Green Building Standards

- ASHRAE is proud to be working as partners with leading sustainability organizations throughout the world and will continue to nurture these partnerships
- ASHRAE is committed to advancing sustainable design globally