ASHRAE Provides Guidance on Achieving Good IAQ

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Courtesy of ASHRAE’s e-industry newsletter:

ASHRAE Provides Guidance on Achieving Good IAQ

For Release:

October 9, 2007

Contact: Jodi Dunlop

Public Relations

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ATLANTA – Providing design guidance on how to achieve

good indoor air quality is the aim of a proposed guideline from ASHRAE now

open for public comment.

Guideline 24P, Ventilation and Indoor Air Quality in Low-Rise Residential

Buildings, is the companion guideline to ASHRAE Standard 62.2, Ventilation

and Acceptable Indoor Air Quality in Low-Rise Residential Buildings. The

guideline currently is open for public comment until Oct. 29, 2007.

The proposed guideline would provide information on envelope and system

design, material selection, commissioning and installation, and operation and

maintenance.

The guideline goes beyond the requirements contained in Standard 62.2 by

providing explanatory and educational material that would be inappropriate in

the code-intended standard.

Topics addressed in the guideline but not covered in the standard include

carbon monoxide alarms, air distribution, better air filtration and unvented

combustion appliances.

“While both Standard 62.2 and Guideline 24P seek to provide acceptable

indoor air quality, the guideline goes beyond by providing additional

information for achieving good indoor air quality,” Steve Emmerich,

chair of the committee writing the guideline, said. “The guideline also

provides information on topics such as verification of ventilation equipment

performance and operations and maintenance, which, though important, are not

easily addressed in a code-intended standard.”

A draft of proposed Guideline 24P is available during the public review

period. To read the guideline or to comment, visit www.ashrae.org/publicreviews.

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.

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