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ASHRAE's Most Used Standards Available on One CD
 
ATLANTA - ASHRAE's "greatest hits" - its 12 top selling standards and
guidelines - are now available on one CD.
        Design Essentials: ASHRAE's Most Referenced Standards and Guidelines
contains a library of documents that can be easily searched and printed with
copy and paste features for text and graphics. The standards and guidelines
address design or system operations, and most are code-intended standards.
  "Because ASHRAE standards/guidelines often refer to requirements in
other standards, our documents need to be used together in order to
understand the means for compliance with any one of them," Rick Hermans,
chair of ASHRAE's Standards Committee, said. "The Design Essentials CD is
intended to make that process simpler for the user."
        Hermans noted that the standards and guidelines included in the CD
serve as the basis for HVAC&R design and some of them are referenced in
building codes.
  Included are:
.. ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 15-2004, Safety Standard for Refrigeration
Systems;
.. ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 34-2004,  Designation and Safety Classification
of Refrigerants;
.. ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 52.2-1999,  Method of Testing General
Ventilation Air-Cleaning Devices for Removal Efficiency by Particle Size;
.. ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 55-2004, Thermal Environmental Conditions for
Human Occupancy;
.. ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 62.1-2004, Ventilation for Acceptable Indoor
Air Quality;
.. ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 62.2-2004, Ventilation and Acceptable Indoor
Air Quality in Low-Rise Residential Buildings;
.. ANSI/ASHRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1-2004, Energy Standard for Buildings
Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings (I-P edition);
.. ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 90.2-2004,  Energy-Efficient Design of Low-Rise
Residential Buildings;
.. ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 135-2004,  BACnetR: A Data Communication
Protocol for Building Automation and Control Networks;
.. ASHRAE Guideline 0-2005, The Commissioning Process;
.. ASHRAE Guideline 1-1996, The HVAC Commissioning Process;
.. ASHRAE Guideline 13-2000, Specifying Direct Digital Control System.
  The cost of the single-user version of Design Essentials: ASHRAE's
Most Referenced Standards and Guidelines is $499 ($429, ASHRAE members).
Annual renewal fee for access to updates after the first year is $290 ($220,
ASHRAE members).
        A network version also is available for organizations so multiple
users can have simultaneous access.
        To order, contact ASHRAE Customer Service at 1-800-527-4723 (United
States and Canada) or 404-636-8400 (worldwide), fax 404-321-5478, by mail at
1791 Tullie Circle NE, Atlanta, GA 30329, or visit the ASHRAE.org Bookstore
at www.ashrae.org/bookstore.
        ASHRAE, founded in 1894, is an international organization of 55,000
persons. Its sole objective is to advance through research, standards
writing, publishing and continuing education the arts and sciences of
heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration to serve the
evolving needs of the public.
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