ASHRAE Insights

The chair of the Society’s Handbook Committee (HBC), Brian Rock, requests members’ assistance in identifying practical information that has been deleted from the ASHRAE Handbook.  If you are still using information from an old volume (pre-2004) of the Handbook because data, equations, figures, text, or examples are not in the current volumes, please forward specific but brief information about the content, its use, and yourself to Brian Rock at docrock@ku.edu.  For example:

To: docrock@ku.edu
From: b.smith@company.com
Subject: Deleted ASHRAE Handbook material

Heating degree-day data, “Weather Data and Design Conditions” chapter, Table 4, pp. 24.23-28, 1981 Fundamentals volume.  It’s very useful for comparing locations and for first-order heating energy estimations of houses.  Comment from Robert T. Smith, P.E., b.smith@company.com, an HVAC design engineer.

This information will be forwarded to the responsible Technical Committees (TCs) with a request that they consider updating the content and restoring it to their chapters.  The TCs’ volunteers are responsible for the technical content of their chapters, and evaluation of requests will take some time. Lengthy research may also be needed before old content is re-included in the Handbook.

Suggestions for bringing back previously published material, or also for new, practical Handbook content should be submitted to the HBC chair via e-mail as soon as possible.  Other comments about the Handbook are also encouraged, and can be submitted anytime via the Handbook Comment Form at www.ashrae.org, or in person via the TCs’ Handbook subcommittees at the ASHRAE Annual and Winter Meetings.