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Contact: Jodi Dunlop
Phone: 678-539-1140
ATLANTA – Designing a green efficient building in Inyo County, Calif., just got easier. As did designing one in Aroostook County, Maine.
In fact, designing green buildings in all of the 3,042 counties in the United States is now as simple as following recommendations on a single page.
ASHRAE’s Advanced Energy Design Guide for Small Office Buildings provides a sensible, hands-on approach to design through use of products that are practical and commercially available as “off-the-shelf” technology from major manufacturers, according to Ron Jarnagin, chair of the committee that wrote the guide.
“Opportunities exist for owners of small buildings to lower operating costs through use of off-the-shelf technology,” Jarnagin said. ??The guide will help designers, contractors, architects and building owners create a truly energy efficient small building. It presents a clear methodology with adequate technical support. While every building is unique, and there are numerous ways to make each one more energy efficient, the guide presents specific approaches that can be applied directly or modified to a particular situation.”
The guide focuses on office buildings of up to 20,000 square feet, which make up the bulk of the office space in the United States.
It features energy-savings recommendations for each climate zone in the U.S. on a single page, making it easier to achieve energy savings.
The guide includes specific recommendations for energy-efficient improvements in the areas of building envelope, lighting, HVAC equipment and systems and service water heating. Bonus savings strategies to improve energy efficiency beyond the 30 percent are included for exterior façade lighting, parking lot lighting and plug loads.
The book is the first in a series of documents designed to provide recommendations for achieving 30 percent energy savings over the minimum code requirements of ASHRAE’s energy conservation standard, Standard 90.1. Standard 90.1 is the basis for building codes across the United States.
A first look at the guide will be presented at ASHRAE’s 2005 Winter Meeting, Feb. 5-9, 2005. The seminar, First Look at ASHRAE’s Advanced Energy Design Guide: Small Office Buildings, will be held from 8-10 a.m. Monday, Feb. 7.
The book was written by ASHRAE, the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA), the New Buildings Institute (NBI) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
The cost of the Advanced Energy Design Guide for Small Office Buildings is $59 ($47, ASHRAE member).
To order, contact ASHRAE Customer Service at 1-800-527-4723 (United States and Canada) or 404-636-8400 (worldwide), fax 404-321-5478, by mail at 1791 Tullie Circle NE, Atlanta, GA 30329, or visit the ASHRAE.org Bookstore at www.ashrae.org.
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