Public Reviews, July 2019
ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 34-2019, Designation and Safety Classification of Refrigerants
The following are under a 30-day public review from July 12 to August 11:
This addendum provides clarification for determining the RCL values of refrigerant blends by revising paragraph 7.2 Blends.
This addendum provides clarification for producing short-term toxicity data of blends in refrigerant applications.
This addendum corrects errors in RCL values found in Tables 4-1 and 4-2.
This addendum adds the zeotropic refrigerant blend R466A in Table 4-2. This second public review is necessary to correct the RCL value provided in the first public review.
Standard 145.2-2016, Laboratory Test Method for Assessing the Performance of Gas-Phase Air Cleaning Systems: Air Cleaning Devices
The following is under a 30-day public review from July 12 to August 11:
1st Public Review of BSR/ASHRAE Addendum a
ASHRAE 52.2 recently removed the Figure cited in 145.2 and replaced it with these calculations. This change proposal updates 145.2 to keep the method viable.
ANSI/ASHRAE/USGBC/IES/ICC Standard 189.1-2017, Standard for the Design of High-Performance Green Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings
The following are under a 30-day public review from July 12 to August 11:
Addendum q to Standard 189.1-2017 addresses certain requirements in Section 8 that were identified as jurisdictional options in the first public review draft but have now been returned to the core provisions of the standard.
Addendum r to Standard 189.1-2017 addresses certain requirements in Section 8 that were identified as jurisdictional options in the first public review draft but have now been returned to the core provisions of the standard.
Addendum ae to Standard 189.1-2017 proposes several changes to the Waste Management provisions in Section 9. In the Diversion section, deconstruction waste is specified as a qualifying category of waste for calculation purposes. Under Total Waste, new text has been added to explain that only new construction is applicable. The weight per area threshold for total waste has also been adjusted.
The following are under a 45-day public review from July 12 to August 26:
Addendum j to Standard 189.1-2017 proposes several clarifications and additions of more specific language to the renewable energy requirements described in Section 7.
Addendum n to Standard 189.1-2017 proposes several modifications to the composite wood requirements in Section 8 to better clarify which products are subject to CARB and USEPA guidelines limiting the use of formaldehyde resins.
Addendum af to Standard 189.1-2017 identifies a number of Construction and Postconstruction requirements from Section 10 to be considered as jurisdictional options, i.e. requirements that the jurisdiction has the option to exclude from its adopted ordinances.
ANSI/ASHRAE/ASHE Standard 189.3-2017, Design, Construction, and Operation of Sustainable High-Performance Health Care Facilities
The following is under a 30-day Public Review from June 21 to July 21:
2nd ISC Public Review of Addendum a
This independent substantive change to the previous public review draft corrects data entry errors for several values listed in Table 7.5.2A, Energy Cost and CO2e Building Performance Factors (BPF).
ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 135-2016, BACnet—A Data Communication Protocol for Building Automation and Control Networks
The following is under a 45-day Public Review from June 21 to August 5:
This addendum introduces BACnet Secure Connect Datalink Layer Option and BACnet/SC in the Application and Network Layer Specifications; adds new Annex YY for the BACnet Secure Connect Datalink Layer Option and a Device_UUID Property to the Device Object; extends APDU Encoding for Large APDU Sizes; introduces new Error Codes for BACnet/SC; and defines Interoperability Specification Extensions for BACnet/SC and Extended 6- Octet VMAC.
This addendum removes Clause 24, Network Security, and all references to it.
This addendum adds Who-Am-I and You-Are Services.
Standard 224P, Standard for the Application of Building Information Modeling
The following is under a 45-day public review from July 12 to August 26:
1st Advisory Public Review of BSR/ASHRAE Standard 224P
Standard 224P provides minimum requirements for the application of Building Information Modeling (BIM) to the planning, design, construction, and operation of buildings. This standard defines how to include BIM requirements in design, construction, and operations services contracts.
ASHRAE Guideline 36-2018, High-Performance Sequences of Operation for HVAC Systems
The following is under a 45-day Public Review from June 14 to July 29:
1st Public Review of Addendum e
This addendum implements Addendum f to Standard 62.1- 2016 and Addendum au to Standard 90.1-2016 to allow minimum rates to be calculated automatically from zone occupant-based and area-based ventilation rates.
Constructive comments are invited for the following public review drafts, which can be accessed on ASHRAE’s website.
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