ATLANTA — At the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers’ (ASHRAE) 2003 Annual Meeting held in Kansas City, Mo., June 28-July 2, several addenda were approved for publication to ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 62-2001, Ventilation for Acceptable Indoor Air Quality. This standard sets minimum ventilation rates and other requirements for commercial and industrial buildings.
Addendum 62g contains requirements for separating smoking and nonsmoking spaces to maintain the status of nonsmoking spaces. The addendum exempts some building types from selected requirements, based on concerns that the requirements are unworkable in these situations, according to committee chair David Butler, P.E.