Advanced Energy Design Guide For Small Office Buildings

For office buildings up to 20,000 square feet, the bulk of office space in the U.S. Provides benefits and savings for building owners and maintains office space quality and functionality. Awards: USGBC 2005 Leadership Award; Stars of Energy Efficiency Award, Honorable Mention (Alliance to Save Energy); and Best Sustainable Practice Award, Honorable Mention (SBIC). I-P units.

ASHRAE, founded in 1894, is an international organization of some 50,000 persons. ASHRAE fulfills its mission of advancing heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration to serve humanity and promote a sustainable world through research, standards writing, publishing, and continuing education.

The ASHRAE Handbooks are the design standard for control of built environments with volumes on Systems and Equipment, HVAC Applications, Refrigeration and Fundamentals. Each is updated every four years. In addition to publishing design guidance for engineers, architects, and facility managers, we also publish a series of texts for classroom use.

Some of the areas we publish in include:
-Energy Modeling and Auditing
-High Performance Building Design
-Psychrometrics
-Indoor Air Quality and Environmental Quality
-Data Center Energy Efficiency
-Noise & Vibration Control
-Humidity Control
-HVAC for Healthcare Facilities