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STANDARDS ACTIONS

PUBLIC REVIEWCALL FOR COMMENTS

Constructive comments are invited for the following Public Review Draft. Public Review Drafts can be accessed by going to ASHRAEs Standards, Research & Technology/Public Review Drafts web page at: http://www.ashrae.org/public-review-drafts and following the instructions to access the online comment database. All activity for reviewing and commenting on public review drafts can be accomplished completely online. To obtain a paper copy of any Public Review Draft ($35.00/copy if 100 pages or less and $45.00 if over 100 pages) contact ASHRAE, Inc. Attn: Standards Public Review, 1791 Tullie Circle, NE, Atlanta, GA 30329-2305 or email at: standards.section@ashrae.org.

PUBLIC REVIEWCALL FOR COMMENTS 2nd Public Review (Independent Substantive

Change) of BSR/ASHRAE/IES Addendum ag to ANSI/ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.12010, Energy Standard for Buildings Except LowRise Residen tial Buildings This is the second public review draft of a proposed ad dendum to establish guidelines for claiming energy sav ings that result from reduced envelope infiltration in Appendix G. 2nd Public Review (Independent Substantive Change) of BSR/ASHRAE/IES Addendum ba to ANSI/ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.12010, Energy Standard for Buildings Except LowRise Residen tial Buildings In response to comments on the first public review, this addendum has been modified to only require HVAC sys tem operation switches on doors, rather than doors and windows. 2nd Public Review (Independent Substantive Change) of BSR/ASHRAE/IES Addendum bl to ANSI/ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.12010, Energy Standard for Buildings Except LowRise Residen tial Buildings Chapter 11 and Appendix G require the user to remove fan energy from equipment where the fan energy is in cluded in the energy efficiency rating of the equipment. A method for removing the fan energy was not previ ously included in the standard.This addendum includes a methodology for removing the fan energy from pack aged equipment efficiency ratings

30-Day Public Review from April 19, 2013 to May 19, 2013

1st Public Review of BSR/ASHRAE Addendum p to

ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 55-2010, Thermal Environmental Conditions for Human Occupancy This proposed addenda aligns Section 5.3.4.2 (Draft) with the definition of average air speed that was clarified in proposed Addendum i.

1st Public Review of BSR/ASHRAE Addendum q to

ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 55-2010, Thermal Environmental Conditions for Human Occupancy This proposed addendum deletes Section 5.3.3.4 (Air Speed Measurement) for consistency with Draft Addendum 55i. The deleted section is mostly informative text. New definitions are added for average air speed and average air temperature to clarify how these commonly used terms apply to averages across the human body. Note that these definitions are also included in Draft Addendum 55n.

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dendum ak to ANSI/ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1 2010, Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low Rise Residential Buildings This addendum limits the scope of 6.5.4.1 to heating and cooling hydronic systems since 6.5.4.4 addresses condenser water systems, clarifies the text in the sec tion, lowers the flow limit from 50% to 25%, removes the 10 horsepower size exception, and requires valve position reset for chilled hot water and hot water tem perature for DDC systems. Withdrawal Public Review of BSR/ASHRAE/IES Addendum cx to ANSI/ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.12010, Energy Standard for Buildings Except LowRise Residential Buildings Originally, addendum bb to 90.1 required a 30% Window to Wall Ratio (WWR). This language allowed an exception for 40% window wall area path within the prescriptive Tables 5.5-1 through 5.5-8 provided continuous dimming was present. Addendum cx was originally approved pending publication of addendum bb, which contained the 30% WWR requirement at the time. After appeals to addendum bb were upheld, the 30% WWR requirement was increased to 40%, and this addendum is being recommended for withdrawal.

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dum dq to ANSI/ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1 2010, Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low Rise Residential Buildings

2nd Public Review (Full) of BSR/ASHRAE/IES Ad 1st Public Review of BSR/ASHRAE/IES Adden

This addendum is in response to a CMP. The economic analysis did not extend above 24 pipe size, so require ments for larger pipes have been eliminated. 1st Public Review of BSR/ASHRAE/IES Adden dum dr to ANSI/ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1 2010, Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low Rise Residential Buildings This addendum modifies the definition of building en trance for clarity. 1st Public Review of BSR/ASHRAE/IES Adden dum dt to ANSI/ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1 2010, Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low Rise Residential Buildings This addendum was generated in response to a continu ous maintenance proposal to remove requirements to control lighting that is not part of the building permit to exempt some sign lighting in the lighting control watt age calculation. 1st Public Review of BSR/ASHRAE/IES Adden st 1 Public Review of BSR/ASHRAE/IES Adden dum du to ANSI/ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1 dum dp to ANSI/ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1 2010, Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low 2010, Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low Rise Residential Buildings Rise Residential Buildings This addendum requires waterside economizers for This addendum modifies language introduced in adden chilled water systems including nonfan systems such dum ar to 90.12010, specifically it revises the defini as radiant cooling or passive chilled beam systems and tion of walkin cooler to match the temperature defi for systems with small individual chilledwater fan sys nitions in federal regulations tems such as fan coils or chilled beams. Provisions are added to avoid implementations that result in excessive heat rejection energy.

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PUBLIC REVIEWCALL FOR COMMENTS 1st Public Review of BSR/ASHRAE/IES Adden

dum dv to ANSI/ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1 2010, Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low Rise Residential Buildings Since Section 6.5.4.1 requires most systems to be vari able flow and since system flow rate for variable flow systems is more a function of valve demand than of how many pumps are on, arguably the second issue is more important, yet it is not addressed in the current stan dard. The first issue only needs be addressed for con stant flow systems where pumps are staged with the chillers or boilers. This addendum revises the current wording accordingly. An exception is added for chiller plant pumps where it is possible that running fewer condenser water pumps can improve plant perform ance in cool weather. 1st Public Review of BSR/ASHRAE/IES Adden dum dw to ANSI/ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1 2010, Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low Rise Residential Buildings Electronic enthalpy switches are eliminated because they have been supplanted in the marketplace by better performing and lower cost switches that use superior fixed enthalpy plus fixed dryblub logic. The dewpoint high limit that was added in the 2004 version is also proposed to be deleted since does not make sense theo retically and did not perform well in our simula tions. The addendum also adds tolerances to the high limit change over sensors which are aligned with toler ances recently added to the Title 24 2013 standard

PUBLIC REVIEWCALL FOR COMMENTS 1st Public Review of BSR/ASHRAE/IES Adden

dum dx to ANSI/ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1 2010, Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low Rise Residential Buildings At the January 2013 Dallas meeting the SSPC 90.1 ap proved to send out for public reviews Addenda bm co and cr as 2nd PRISCs and a new Addendum dl for publication/public review While these addenda are out for public review these changes reflected by Ad denda co, cr and dl are not reflected in the 2nd PR ISC of Addendum bm, so this new addendum has been created to address those changes 2nd Public Review of BSR/ASHRAE/ASHE Addendum u to ANSI/ASHRAE/ASHE Standard 1702008, Ventilation of Health Care Facilities This proposed addendum clarifies note w to Table 7-1, Design Parameters.

1st Public Review of BSR/ASHRAE/ASHE Addendum y to ANSI/ASHRAE/ASHE Standard 1702008, Ventilation of Health Care Facilities This proposed addendum adds restrictions on the use of duct lining. These requirements are similar to those of the 2010 FGI Guidelines for the Design and Construction of Health Care Facilities, but have been clarified.

1st Public Review of BSR/ASHRAE/ASHE Addendum z to ANSI/ASHRAE/ASHE Standard 170-2008, Ventilation of Health Care Facilities This proposed addendum clarifies requirements for an Emergency Department examination/treatment room. The function of the Emergency Department examination/ treatment room is described in FGI-2010 Paragraph 2.23.1.3.6.

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dum ab to ANSI/ASHRAE/ASHE Standard 1702008, Ventilation of Health Care Facilities This proposed addendum clarifies the Table 7-1 (Design Parameters) minimum requirements for Patient rooms. The Patient room table entry with footnote (s.) previously allowed 4 Minimum Total ACH for this space with the use of supplemental heating and/or cooling systems. The Patient room requirements have been clarified such that 4 Minimum Total ACH is the space requirement regardless of the use of supplemental heating and/or cooling systems. The last sentence of footnote (s.) was not revised by this addenda; it was relocated to a new footnote (x.) and reapplied to the same table entry for patient rooms.

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to ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 135-2012, BACnet - A Data Communication Protocol for Building Automation and Control This addendum clarifies authentication factor value encoding and also clarifies coercion support requirements.

1st Public Review of BSR/ASHRAE/ASHE Adden- 1st Public Review of BSR/ASHRAE Addendum au

1st Public Review of BSR/ASHRAE Addendum av

to ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 135-2012, BACnet - A Data Communication Protocol for Building Automation and Control

The purpose of this addendum is to deprecate execution of GetAlarmSummary since addendum 135-2010af made the GetEventInformation service execution required for all devices that support event reporting. The addendum also dep45-Day Public Review from recates execution of GetEnrollmentSummary because this April 19, 2013 to June 3, 2013 complex service does not provide enough information to st 1 Public Review of BSR/ASHRAE Addendum o to acknowledge an event. ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 55-2010, Thermal Envi 1st Public Review of BSR/ASHRAE Addendum aw ronmental Conditions for Human Occupancy to ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 135-2012, BACnet - A Data Communication Protocol for Building AutomaThis proposed addendum clarifies the normative language tion and Control Networks that appears in Section 7 (Evaluation of the Thermal Environment) of the body of the Standard. This revised Section 7 provides standardized measurement methods for the evaluation of comfort conditions in existing buildings. The intention is to assist users of the Standard in understanding what is actually happening in buildings. Use of standardized methods allows better comparison among different buildings and in the same building under a variety of conditions. The methods have also been simplified when compared to previous versions of Standard 55. The purpose of this addendum is to extend the CHANGEOF-STATE event algorithm for all discrete types, add a new event algorithm, CHANGE_OF-DISCRETE_VALUE, add a new fault algorithm, FAULT_OUT_OF_RANGE, extend the Loop Object Type to support specific low and high error limits, add the ability to report faults to date and time related value objects, and add the ability to report faults to the Command, Device, and Notification class objects.

1st Public Review of BSR/ASHRAE Addendum at

to ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 135-2012, BACnet - A Data Communication Protocol for Building Automation and Control Networks This addendum adds an Interface_Value Property, which allows a controller to expose the actual value of the physical input or output in a standard manner.
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STANDARDS ACTIONS

PUBLIC REVIEWCALL FOR COMMENTS 1st Public Review of BSR/ASHRAE Standard 1522004R, Method of Test for Determining the Design and Seasonal Efficiencies of Residential Thermal Distribution Systems This revision of Standard 152-2004 prescribes a method of test to determine the efficiency of space heating and/or cooling thermal distribution systems under seasonal and design conditions. The objective is to facilitate annual energy calculations and heating and cooling equipment capacity calculations.

INTERIM MEETINGS
A complete listing of project committee interim meetings is provided on ASHRAEs website at: http://www.ashrae.org/pc-interim-meetings.

GPC 34P, Energy Guideline for Historical Buildings

and Structures, will hold conference calls from 10:00 am to 11:30 am (Eastern) on the following dates: April 17, 2013 April 24, 2012 May 1, 2013 May 15, 2013 June 5, 2013 June 19, 2013 For additional information contact Sheila Hayter, Chair of GPC 34P (sheila.hayter@nrel.gov).

PUBLICATION NOTICE
The standards and guideline documents listed below are now available for purchase on the ASHRAE website at: http://www.ashrae.org/published-standards, or by contacting the Sales Department at: ASHRAE, 1791 Tullie Circle, NE, Atlanta, GA 30329-2305. Email: orders@ashrae.org. Fax: 404-321-5479. Telephone: 404.636.8400 (worldwide) or toll free at 1.800.527.4723 for orders in the U.S. and Canada. Addenda may be downloaded for free at: http://www.ashrae.org/standards-addenda.

SPC 29-2009R, Methods of Testing Automatic Ice

Makers, will hold a conference call on Tuesday, April 30, 2013 from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm (Eastern). For additional information contact Daryl Erbs, Chair of SPC 29 (daryl.erbs@manitowoc.com).

ANSI/ASHRAE Addendum j to ANSI/ASHRAE

Standard 55-2010, Thermal Environmental Conditions for Human Occupancy

SSPC 55, Thermal Environmental Conditions for

Human Occupancy, will hold conference calls at 12:00 pm (Eastern) on the following dates: May 6, 2013 June 10, 2013 For additional information contact Gwelen Paliaga, Chair of SSPC 55 (GPaliaga@taylor-engineering.com).

ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 62.1-2013, Ventilation for

Acceptable Indoor Air Quality. Includes Addenda b, c, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, q, r, u and v to ANSI/ ASHRAE Standard 62.1-2010, Ventilation for Acceptable Indoor Air Quality

SSPC 189.1, Standard for the Design of HighPerformance Green Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings, will hold a conference call on May 7, 2013 from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm (Eastern) . For additional information contact Bert Etheredge, Staff Liaison to SSPC 189.1 (betheredge@ashrae.org).

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INTERPRETATIONS A new official interpretation of ANSI/ASHRAE Stan-

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dard 52.2-2007, Method of Testing General Ventilation ASHRAE Standards Actions Air-Cleaning Devices for Removal Efficiency by Particle Size, is now available on the ASHRAE website at: SSPC 41 Standard Methods for Measurement http://www.ashrae.org/standards-interpretations. Interpretation IC 52.2-2007-2 refers to the requirements SSPC 62.1 Ventilation for Acceptable Indoor Air presented in ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 52.2-2007, SecQuality tion 4.6.1, regarding particle counters. The response was approved by SSPC 52.2 on April 15, 2013. SSPC 62.2 Ventilation and Acceptable Indoor Air Quality in Low-Rise Residential Buildings A new official interpretation of ANSI/ASHRAE/ IESNA Standard 90.1-2007 , Energy Standard for SSPC 90.1 Energy Standard for Buildings Except Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings, is Low-Rise Residential Buildings now available on the ASHRAE website at: http:// www.ashrae.org/standards-interpretations. InterpretaSSPC 90.2 Energy Efficient Design of Low-Rise tion 90.1-2010-17 refers to the requirements presented Residential Buildings in ANSI/ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1-2010, Section 9.4.1.4(a), relating to Automatic Daylighting Controls for Primary Sidelighted Areas and the light sensor for SPC 90.4 Energy Standard for Data Centers and the photocontrol. The response was approved by SSPC Telecommunications Buildings New! 90.1 on April 16, 2013. SSPC 161 Air Quality within Commercial AirCraft

ERRATA
Errata sheets for the following documents are now available on the ASHRAE website at http://www.ashrae.org/ standards-errata.

SSPC 189.1 Standard for the Design of HighPerformance Green Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings SPC 201 Facility Smart Grid Information Model

A new errata sheet for ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 62.2-

2013, Ventilation and Acceptable Indoor Air Quality in Code Intended Standards, CIS Listserve Low-Rise Residential Buildings, dated April 17, 2013.

Two new errata sheets for ANSI/ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1-2010, Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings, (SI and I-P editions) dated April 17, 2013 and replaces version dated January 18, 2013.

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A new errata sheet for ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 1352012, A Data Communication Protocol for Building Automation and Control Networks, dated April 16, 2013.
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