WESTPORT, Conn. - The United States Green Building Council is the latest association to endorse the 2005 Air-Conditioning, Heating, Refrigerating Exposition (AHR Expo), Feb. 7-9 in Orlando, Fla. The association joins 20 other endorsing associations that have already lent their support to the event.

"We are very excited about the council's endorsement of the 2005 AHR Expo, and are pleased to provide this year's expo participants direct access to the government body that has begun transforming the building industry toward a more environmentally conscious one," said Clay Stevens, International Exposition Company (IEC) president, producers and managers of the AHR Expo.

According to show management, more than 1,600 companies have already reserved more than 356,000 net square feet of exhibit space for the 2005 AHR Expo.