The following is under a 45-day public review from Oct. 12 to Nov. 26:

1st Public Review of BSR/ASHRAE Standard 30- 2017R, Method of Testing Liquid Chillers

This revision of ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 30-2017 prescribes methods of testing to measure the thermal capacity, energy efficiency, and water pressure drop of packaged liquid chiller equipment using a refrigerant vapor compression cycle.

The following are under a 30-day public review from Oct. 5 to Nov. 4:

• 1st Public Review of BSR/ASHRAE Addendum q to ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 34-2016, Designation and Safety Classification of Refrigerants

This addendum moves the cis (E) and trans (Z) isomer description from section 4.1.10 (isomers of propene series) to a new standalone section (4.1.13).

• 1st Public Review of BSR/ASHRAE Addendum r to ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 34-2016, Designation and Safety Classification of Refrigerants

This addendum corrects language to allow for proper naming of molecules containing Iodine.

• 1st Public Review of BSR/ASHRAE Addendum s to ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 34-2016, Designation and Safety Classification of Refrigerants

This addendum adds the single component refrigerant R1336mzz(E) in Table 4-1.

• 1st Public Review of BSR/ASHRAE Addendum t to ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 34-2016, Designation and Safety Classification of Refrigerants

This addendum adds the single component refrigerant R13I1 in Table 4-1.

• 1st Public Review of BSR/ASHRAE Addendum u to ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 34-2016, Designation and Safety Classification of Refrigerants

This addendum adds the zeotropic refrigerant blend R466A in Table 4-2.

• 1st Public Review of BSR/ASHRAE Addendum v to ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 34-2016, Designation and Safety Classification of Refrigerants

This addendum revises paragraph B2.4.1 (Leaks Under Storage/Shipping Conditions) to address fluids whose critical temperature is lower than 130°F(54.4°C).

The following are under a 45-day public review from Sept. 21 to Nov. 5:

• 2nd Public Review of BSR/ASHRAE Addendum L to ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 62.1-2016, Ventilation for Acceptable Indoor Air Quality

The natural ventilation procedure was modified to require mechanical ventilation with certain exceptions. This proposed addendum provides specific requirements for the exception. It also recognizes that there are inherent health issues with outdoor air in many locations in the world and updates the requirements based on recent studies and airflow evaluations. The prescriptive path has been improved by removing the openable area requirement of 4% of net occupiable floor area. Two tables are proposed that provided minimum openable area based on program type, opening geometry, and spacing of vertical openings.

• 2nd Public Review of BSR/ASHRAE Addendum t to ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 62.1-2016, Ventilation for Acceptable Indoor Air Quality

This proposed addendum adds a new informative appendix which is a companion to the changes to the Natural Ventilation Procedure. It provides information for application of the new procedure.

The following is under a 30-day public review from Oct. 12 to Nov. 11:

2nd Public Review of BSR/ASHRAE Addendum i to ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 62.1-2016, Ventilation for Acceptable Indoor Air Quality

The current scope of Standard 62.1 contains informative text and is also unclear in the current Section 2.3 regarding when or where additional ventilation requirements apply. This proposed addendum removes informative text that is not scope definition and clarifies when the standard does not provide ventilation rates. Addendum h adds informative text to Informative Appendix G – Application.  

The following are under a 30-day public review from Sept. 21 to Oct. 21:

• 2nd Public Review of BSR/ASHRAE Addendum c to ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 62.2-2016, Ventilation and Acceptable Indoor Air Quality in Residential Buildings

This proposed addendum aims to minimize the potential for coming up with variable ventilation control strategies that could result in substantial under-ventilation for noticeable periods of time.

• 1st Public Review of BSR/ASHRAE Addendum r to ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 62.2-2016, Ventilation and Acceptable Indoor Air Quality in Residential Buildings

This proposed change removes the requirement that ONOFF controls be readily accessible or manual. They would still be required to be accessible, but would avoid the confusion between the 62.2 intent of “readily” with other organizations’ definition.

• 1st Public Review of BSR/ASHRAE Addendum t to ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 62.2-2016, Ventilation and Acceptable Indoor Air Quality in Residential Buildings

This proposed change removes the potential for people to claim they would have installed a balanced system to avoid installing an unbalanced system. It also aligns the maximum airflow requirement that precludes the need to install a fan between new and existing homes.

• 1st Public Review of BSR/ASHRAE Addendum u to ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 62.2-2016, Ventilation and Acceptable Indoor Air Quality in Residential Buildings

This proposed change expands the prescriptive duct sizing table (Table 5.3) to account for the larger flows sometimes encountered with kitchen exhaust. It also reworks the table to show minimum diameter instead of maximum length.

The following is under a 45-day public review from Oct. 5 to Nov. 19:

1st Withdrawal Public Review of ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 94.2-2010W, Method of Testing Thermal Storage Devices with Electrical Input and Thermal Performance

The purpose of this standard is to provide a standard procedure for determining the energy performance of electrically charged thermal energy storage devices in heating systems. It is believed that this standard is no longer warranted as it has no reported use.

The following is under a 45-day public review from Oct. 12 to Nov. 26:

2nd ISC Public Review of BSR/ASHRAE Addendum bs to ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 135-2016, BACnet - A Data Communication Protocol for Building Automation and Control Networks

The current standard does not address the need of elevator applications regarding BIBBs and device profiles. The addendum adds new elevator application specific BIBBs and device profiles.

The following is under a 45-day public review from Oct. 12 to Nov. 26:

1st Public Review of BSR/ASHRAE Standard 146- 2011R, Method of Test for Rating Pool Heaters

This revision of ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 146-2011 provides methods of testing for rating pool heaters, heating capacity, and energy efficiency.

The following is under a 30-day public review from Sept. 21 to Oct. 21:

1st Public Review of BSR/ASHRAE Addendum a to ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 188-2018, Legionellosis: Risk Management for Building Water Systems

This proposed addendum revises the definition of “nonpotable” and “potable water system” in Section 3, Definitions. The revision defines “non-potable” with the opposite language used to define “potable water system,” and the revisions makes the definition consistent with the same definitions proposed in ASHRAE Guideline 12.

The following is under a 45-day public review from Sept. 28 to Nov. 12:

1st Public Review of BSR/ASHRAE Standard 218P, Method of Test for Lubricant and Refrigerant Miscibility Determination

ASHRAE Standard 218P establishes a test procedure to determine the critical solution locus of miscible properties of a lubricant and refrigerant mixture.