Indoor Air Quality Guide, The: Best Practices for Design, Construction and Commissioning

This guide is designed for architects, design engineers, contractors, commissioning agents, and all other professionals concerned with IAQ. With the summary guidance, you get the best practices for IAQ building design, commissioning and construction, as well as tools and material for showing the value of IAQ to clients. The detailed guidance on the included CD provides hundreds of internal and external links to invaluable IAQ resources by topic.

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