ATLANTIC CITY, NJ — During the discussion in the forum “Methods for Estimating Maintenance Costs” at the 2002 ASHRAE Winter Meeting, it was noted that no original maintenance cost data have been surveyed since about 30 years ago. An attendee declared, “My guess is that 1970s data do not reflect current conditions.”
A Canadian engineer said that people are just indexing their old data up to the present. ASHRAE is now looking for new data to update maintenance cost information.