Nov. 23, 2005: ARI, ASHRAE Approve Agreement For Standards Development
ARLINGTON, Va. - The Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute (ARI) and the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) have approved a new cooperative agreement for standards development that reinforces their long-running alliance.
Preserved and formalized in the agreement is one of the tenets of the ASHRAE-ARI relationship - that ASHRAE develops method of testing standards that describe how to perform product testing, while ARI develops rating standards that specify rating conditions and details on how to rate performance of products using those tests.