©2024 This excerpt taken from the article of the same name which appeared in ASHRAE Journal, vol. 66, no. 3, March 2024.
About the Author
Wayne Stoppelmoor, ASHRAE SSPC 100 chair, is a manager, Industry Standards, for Schneider Electric. Glenn Friedman, P.E., ASHRAE SSPC 100 vice chair, is a principal for Taylor Engineers. Kimberly Cheslak is a senior technical advisor and Jamie Kono, P.E., is a building research engineer for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Andrew Pape-Salmon, P.E., is an adjunct professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Victoria, BC, Canada. John Topmiller, P.E., is an engineering manager for Energy Systems Group. Joseph Firrantello, Ph.D., P.E., Member ASHRAE, is a senior building energy engineer for McKinstry.
In January 2024, ASHRAE published a significant overhaul to ANSI/ASHRAE/IES Standard 100-2018, Energy Efficiency in Existing Buildings. You may almost not recognize it. Standard 100-2024, Energy and Emissions Building Performance Standard for Existing Buildings, now addresses both energy and emissions performance as a model building performance standard (BPS).
ASHRAE Standing Standard Project Committee (SSPC) 100, with direction from ASHRAE and its Task Force for Building Decarbonization (TFBD) has been working to update the standard to make it a model for building performance standard adoption across the U.S. and internationally.
The new edition of Standard 100 addresses key issues of climate change surrounding building performance, including new metrics for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions targets, continuing to support the imperative of improving our existing building stock and meeting global climate change commitments.
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