April 9, 2014: Revised ASHRAE Standard Helps Compare Building Energy Performance
Standard Supports Commonality in Reporting Performance
ATLANTA — ASHRAE has announced the availability of the newly revised ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 105-2014, Standard Methods of Determining, Expressing, and Comparing Building Energy Performance and Greenhouse Gas Emissions. The standard supports commonality in reporting the energy performance of existing or proposed buildings to provide a consistent method of measuring and comparing the energy performance of buildings.
“A standard method of measurement is needed in order to be able to compare one building's energy use to another,” said Keith Emerson, chair of the Standard 105 committee. “For instance, comparing one building’s summer energy use to another building’s winter use would be comparing apples and oranges.”