Indoor Air Quality Guide: Best Practices for Design, Construction, and Commissioning Published in 2010 Download the Summary Guidance Purchase the full Indoor Air Quality Guide:  Best Practices for Design, Construction, and Commissioning containing both the Summary and Detailed Guidance is now available for purchase:  Order the IAQ Guide
	Performance Measurement Protocols for Commercial Buildings Published in 2010 Purchase the Guide:  Order the PMP document

Feedback on ASHRAE publications is welcomed and encouraged by ASHRAE.   Please contact us in Technical Activities with your feedback or technical questions. 

ASHRAE, in collaboration with AIA (American Institute of Architects), IESNA (Illuminating Engineering Society of North America), USGBC (U.S. Green Building Council) and the DOE (Department of Energy) continues to develop the Advanced Energy Design Guide (AEDG) Series.  

Please visit our AEDG web page for more information on currently available and soon to be published guides.

View the AEDG web page

Special Project SP-96 (1262-RP) deals with air quality and passenger/crew reported symptoms in commercial aircraft cabins.  The initial phase of this project dealing with air quality and passenger/crew reported symptoms in commercial aircraft cabins was successfully completed in July 2004.    The second phase of the project will encompass additional testing on two or more airlines.  The work on the second phase started in February 2007 and a third airline was added in October 2009. The final report is expected in early 2012.

For additional information on Research Projects.

Special Project SP-97 is an offshoot of existing research project 1262-RP on district heating and cooling systems. The project is funded by Empower (Dubai), and the result will be a design manual on district cooling systems. The targeted completion date was originally early 2010, but that deadline has been extended with publication now targeted in 2012.

For additional information on Research Projects.

ASHRAE was awarded a $1.5 million dollars in grant money from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in January 2010 to conduct a three –year research project on ventilation and indoor air quality in retail stores.

Through this study, ASHRAE is seeking to improve the energy efficiency of ventilation systems in retail stores while maintaining air quality by establishing a method to determine the relationship between ventilation rates and IAQ, using measured ventilation and pollutant concentration data. Ultimately, the project will establish a methodology for collection of real world ventilation and air quality data.

Existing pollutant and ventilation rate data on which ventilation requirements for retail stores are based come largely from measurements in office buildings. The project will conduct measurements in up to five retail building types such as general merchandise, department, supermarket, and home improvement/hardware.

The completion of the project is targeted or December 2012.

For additional information on Research Projects 

This project will be a follow-up document to the Performance Measurements Protocols and will seek to provide how to guidance and case study examples on the best practice application of the protocols defined in the previous document. The work on this project will also provide feedback for possible future revisions of the Performance Measurement Protocols document.

A Project Committee was established in 2010 to prepare this ASHRAE Special Publication with a targeted publication in early 2011.

This project is being overseen and coordinated by the Building Performance Metrics Multi-disciplinary Task Group (MTG).

For additional information on the Building Performance Metrics MTG (See /technology/page/mtg-bpm)