<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#b45f06">Thanks, Jason.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#b45f06">Eventually, I'll read the Standard in detail. For now the summary is very helpful.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 10:23 AM, Jason Glazer via Bldg-sim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div class="m_1714566249317889878moz-forward-container"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"></span></b><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">ASHRAE/IES
Publish 2016 Energy Efficiency Standard</span></strong><u></u><u></u>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">ATLANTA
– Numerous energy savings measures resulting from industry
input are contained in the newly published energy efficiency
standard from ASHRAE and IES.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">ANSI/ASHRAE/IES
Standard 90.1-2016,
<em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Energy
Efficiency Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise
Residential Buildings</span></em>, contains 125 addenda
published since the 2013 standard. The 2013 standard
currently serves as the commercial building reference
standard for state building energy codes.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This
2016 version is the 10<sup>th</sup> edition published since
the original standard was first published in 1975 during the
energy crisis of the United States.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"It
is the overall goal of each version to create a consensus
standard that saves energy and is technically feasible and
cost effective,” Drake Erbe, chair of the Standard 90.1
committee, said. “In addition, as a result of a strategic
initiative begun in the 2013 cycle, the 2016 version has a
new format that we believe will be easier for users, a new
way of incorporation of reference material from other
standards starting with climate data, and a performance path
for compliance that rewards designs for achieving energy
cost levels above the standard minimum.”</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Formatting</span></strong><u></u><u></u></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The
standard has made significant formatting changes to improve
its use. These include a one-column format for easier
reading; exceptions separated and indented, set apart with a
smaller font size; all defined terms are italicized; and
alternating coloring scheme for table rows.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The
most significant technical changes included are as follows:</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal">
<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Building
Envelope</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
</span><u></u><u></u>
<ul type="circle">
<li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The
mandatory provisions include the addition of envelope
verification in support of reduced air infiltration
and increased requirements for air leakage to overhead
coiling doors.</span><u></u><u></u></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The
prescriptive requirements include increased stringency
requirements for metal building roofs and walls,
fenestration, and opaque doors. Requirements for
Climate Zone 0 have been added.</span><u></u><u></u></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Improved
clarity of the standard ranged from defining exterior
walls to building orientation to clarity around the
effective R-value of air spaces</span><u></u><u></u></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">
<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Lighting:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
</span><u></u><u></u>
<ul type="circle">
<li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Modified
control requirements that make the application of
advanced lighting controls easier for increased energy
savings</span><u></u><u></u></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Modification
of exterior and interior lighting power densities that
reflect the efficiency gains from LED technology in
specific applications where they are proven to be
effective</span><u></u><u></u></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Added
minimum requirements for lighting in dwelling units to
set limits on light source efficacy</span><u></u><u></u></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Added
additional control for lighting in parking areas based
on occupancy to reduce energy use</span><u></u><u></u></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">
<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Mechanical:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
</span><u></u><u></u>
<ul type="circle">
<li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Chilled
water plant metering – For the first time, the
standard is requiring large electric driven chilled
water plants to be monitored for electric energy use
and efficiency.</span><u></u><u></u></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">DOAS
requirements – Dedicated outdoor air systems were
introduced over 25 years ago but there were no rating
or efficiency requirements with which to comply. For
the first time, this product class does have both
efficiency and rating requirements with which they
have to comply.</span><u></u><u></u></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Elevator
efficiency –Introduces requirements for designs to
include both usage category and efficiency class.
While a minimum threshold is not listed, it is the
first step toward including minimum elevator
efficiency requirement in a future standard. The
standard referenced is an ISO standard since this the
current industry standard for efficiency.</span><u></u><u></u></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Economizer
diagnostics – The standard is implementing
requirements that air cooled DX cooling unit with
economizers have a monitoring system to determine that
the air economizer is properly working.
</span><u></u><u></u></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal">
<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Energy
Cost Budget (ECB) and Modeling.</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
A significant change to the application of Appendix G as
follows:</span><u></u><u></u></li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><span>o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Appendix
G now can be used as a path for compliance with the
standard. Previously Appendix G was used only to rate
“beyond code” performance of buildings. This new version of
Appendix G can show compliance with the 2016 version of the
standard in the following manner:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:66.0pt">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><span>o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> The
proposed building design requires a new metric the
Performance Cost Index (PCI) and demonstration that it is
less than that shown in Table 4.2.1.1 based on building type
and climate zone. </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:66.0pt">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><span>o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Another
change is that the baseline design is now fixed at a certain
level of performance, the stringency or baseline of which is
expected not to change with subsequent versions of the
standard. By this, a building of any era can be rated using
the same method. </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:30.0pt">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><span>o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Other
modifications to Appendix G include: elevator, motor, and
refrigeration baselines; changes to the baseline for
existing building projects; as well as specific opaque
assemblies for the baseline envelope model. Modeling rule
changes were also made to heat pump auxiliary heat,
economizer shutoff, lighting controls, humidification
systems, cooling towers, and the simulation of preheat
coils.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Additional
<strong>
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">structural
changes</span></strong> include:</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:30.0pt">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><span>o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Reference
Standard Reproduction Annex 1 at the end of the document.
This annex is designed to contain extracts from other
references that are published with Standard 90.1 for the
convenience of users. At present, the only standard this
pertains to is ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 169,
<em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Climatic
Data for Building Design Standards</span></em>. Section
5.1.4 now cites this standard as the source for climatic
data therefore extractions of tables and figures from
Standard 169-2013 are included in Annex 1</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:30.0pt">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><span>o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Addition
of 2 weather zones 0 A/B in all prescriptive requirements
tables to correspond with Standard 169.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The
cost of is $119, ASHRAE members ($140, non-members). To
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founded in 1894, is a global society advancing human
well-being through sustainable technology for the built
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worldwide focus on building systems, energy efficiency,
indoor air quality, refrigeration and sustainability.
Through research, standards writing, publishing,
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