Nov. 10, 2011: New Design Guide Shows How Schools Can Achieve 50 Percent Energy Savings
ATLANTA — The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) has announced the availability of the Advanced Energy Design Guide for K-12 School Buildings: Achieving 50% Energy Savings Toward a Net Zero Energy Building. The guide is the second to be released in a series which provides recommendations to achieve 50 percent energy savings when compared with the minimum code requirements of ANSI/ASHRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1-2004, Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings.
Advanced Energy Design Guides, or AEDGs, enable owners, contractors, consulting engineers, architects, and designers to achieve advanced levels of energy savings without detailed energy modeling or analyses, said ASHRAE. Jointly developed by ASHRAE, the American Institute of Architects, the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, the U.S. Green Building Council, and the U.S. Department of Energy, the guides are available for free download.