# Presentation: 683948

## What’s New - ASHRAE

- Mark Halverson
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

## ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2004

- DOE Determination will be out this fiscal year.
- Next version is ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2007 and a variety of addenda will be out for public review in the near future at
- 	http://www.ashrae.org/template/TechnologyLinkLanding/category/1634;jsessionid=baa7BXMTqLxJyr

## 90.1-2004 Envelope

- Several envelope addenda out for public review
- New opaque envelope requirements
- New vertical fenestration requirements (modeled on IECC)
- Move climate data to Standard 169
- Continuous air barrier requirement voted out for Independent Substantive Change

## 90.1-2004 Envelope

- Still to come
- New metal building requirements
- Committee working with MBNA
- New skylight requirements
- Committee considering proposal from Heschong-Mahone Group to allow more skylight area in big box retail if daylighting controls are present and possibly to require skylights and daylighting control in big box retail

## 90.1-2004 Mechanical

- Several mechanical addenda out for public review
- Revised gas- and oil-fired boiler efficiency requirements
- Additional footnote mentioning interrupted or intermittent ignition requirements for warm air furnaces and unit heaters
- Resolved comments on fan power limitation addenda and sent out for second public review

## 90.1-2004 Lighting

- Resolved public review comments on critical revision of the additional power allowances section in 90.1 Lighting
- Several additional lighting addenda out for public review
- Clarification of retail lighting allowances
- Adding occupancy sensor requirements to hotel/motel bathroom lighting

## ASHRAE and Sustainability

- ASHRAE’s Sustainability Roadmap
- 	_[http://www.ashrae.org/content/ASHRAE/ASHRAE/ArticleAltFormat/200621485921_886.pdf](http://www.ashrae.org/content/ASHRAE/ASHRAE/ArticleAltFormat/200621485921_886.pdf)_
- ASHRAE’s “green commercial building” standard - BSR/ASHRAE/USGBC/IESNA Standard 189p
- http://www.ashrae.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/50140
- 						See Green Building Track

## The ASHRAE Promise – A Sustainable Future

- The title of incoming ASHRAE President Terry Townsend’s Assignments to ASHRAE Councils and Committees
- 	http://www.ashrae.org/content/ASHRAE/ASHRAE/ArticleAltFormat/200662215047_986.pdf

## Excerpts from “The ASHRAE Promise – A Sustainable Future”

- Standard 90.1-2010 to be 30% more stringent than 90.1-2004
- Improve Standard 90.1 form and format for usability (via focus group of users)
- Streamline composition of Standard 90.1 structure
- Develop Standard 90.1-2010 performance-based having same stringency requirement as Standard 90.1-2010 prescriptive standard

## What’s New – Tax Credits

- 	The guidance for commercial buildings is finally out!
- IRS
- http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-06-52.pdf
- DOE
- http://www.eere.energy.gov/buildings/info/tax_credit_2006.html

## Summary of Commercial Provisions

- Basis	ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2001
- Reduction – 50%
- Tax deduction for cost of energy-efficient property installed up to maximum of $1.80 per square foot
- Partial deduction of $0.60 per square foot would be provided for building subsystems such as envelope, lighting, and HVAC.