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Contact: Jodi Dunlop
Phone: 404-636-8400
ATLANTA - With ASHRAE's energy conservation standard serving as the national benchmark for state energy codes, design professionals, code officials and building owners need guidance on how to comply with its requirements.
To meet this demand, the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) will offer its four-hour short course on compliance with the HVAC and service water heating requirements of ANSI/ASHRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1, Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings in a new online format.
The course will be held in two sessions from noon-2 p.m. (Eastern) March 25 and 26, 2004.
Under the Federal Energy Policy Act, states must certify that their building codes meet the requirements of ASHRAE Standard 90.1-1999. States have until July 2004 to notify the Department of Energy that their building codes meet the requirements in the standard.
"We hope this new online format will help serve HVAC&R design professionals, code officials and building owners across the nation who need to comply with the standard to help them meet the requirements of the Federal Energy Policy Act," Mark Hydeman, P.E., vice chair of ASHRAE's Course Development Committee and instructor of the course, said.
The standard also is used in the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standard's energy and atmosphere credits.
Registration for this pilot program is limited to the first 40 registrants. Those interested should email the ASHRAE Learning Institute at edu@ashrae.org. Registration is $175 ($150 ASHRAE members).
If response is good, the ASHRAE Learning Institute will offer this and other courses in the new online format, according to Hydeman.
ASHRAE, founded in 1894, is an international organization of 55,000 persons. Its sole objective is to advance through research, standards writing, publishing and continuing education the arts and sciences of heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration to serve the evolving needs of the public.
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