February 22, 2006—ASHRAEs “greatest hits”—its 12 top selling standards and guidelines—are now available on one CD.
Design Essentials: ASHRAEs Most Referenced Standards and Guidelines contains a library of documents that can be easily searched and printed with copy and paste features for text and graphics. The standards and guidelines address design or system operations, and most are code-intended standards.
Included are: ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 15-2004, Safety Standard for Refrigeration Systems; ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 34-2004, Designation and Safety Classification of Refrigerants; ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 52.2-1999, Method of Testing General Ventilation Air-Cleaning Devices for Removal Efficiency by Particle Size; ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 55-2004, Thermal Environmental Conditions for Human Occupancy; ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 62.1-2004, Ventilation for Acceptable Indoor Air Quality; ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 62.2-2004, Ventilation and Acceptable Indoor Air Quality in Low-Rise Residential Buildings; ANSI/ASHRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1-2004, Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings (I-P edition); ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 90.2-2004, Energy-Efficient Design of Low-Rise Residential Buildings; ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 135-2004, BACnet: A Data Communication Protocol for Building Automation and Control Networks; ASHRAE Guideline 0-2005, The Commissioning Process; ASHRAE Guideline 1-1996, The HVAC Commissioning Process; and ASHRAE Guideline 13-2000, Specifying Direct Digital Control System.
The cost of the single-user version is $499 ($429, ASHRAE members). Annual renewal fee for access to updates after the first year is $290 ($220, ASHRAE members).
A network version also is available for organizations so multiple users can have simultaneous access.
To order, contact ASHRAE Customer Service at 1-800-527-4723 (United States and Canada) or 404-636-8400 (worldwide), fax 404-321-5478, by mail at 1791 Tullie Circle NE, Atlanta, GA 30329, or visit the ASHRAE.org Bookstore.
