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Declaring that the building industry must improve building energy efficiency, ASHRAE is striving to increase building energy efficiency in Standard 90.1.
ASHRAE is looking to achieve 30% energy savings in the 2010 standard compared to ANSI/ASHRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1-2004, Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings.
ASHRAE is committed to continually improving building energy performance. The savings are part of ASHRAE’s goal to achieve market-viable net-zero energy buildings by 2030.
“Building energy standards and codes play a vital role in helping reduce future U.S. building energy consumption by setting the minimum energy efficiency requirements that all new and renovated buildings must meet,” said ASHRAE president Kent Peterson, P.E. The plan to achieve 30% savings in 2010 is based on an average for all building types and climate weighted energy cost savings and may not be achieved for every building in every climate.
Other elements of the plan are:
• Estimates of energy savings improvement be based on the total annual energy cost of the facility
• Energy savings estimated on ongoing basis
• Improvement calculations made in conjunction with technical resources made available by the Department of Energy.
Any changes to Standard 90.1 will continue to follow ASHRAE’s standards development process, which is approved by the American National Standards Institute and based on achieving consensus.
Those interested in contributing ideas on the advanced energy savings can submit comments via www.ashrae.org/technology/page/812.
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