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PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
OVER THE YEARS ASHRAE has accepted various challenges,
including in the 1970s with the creation of an energy standard, which is
now Standard 90.1. Current efforts include decarbonization.
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has accepted various challenges,
accepted this challenge!
In order to equip our members with the knowledge
needed for our climate advocacy efforts, our Task Force
for Building Decarbonization (TFBD) has laid out a road
map for our organization to follow and provided guidance,
education and training for our members to use on
their journey. ASHRAE's focus on building energy effi -
ciency is as important today as ever, because the cleanest
energy is energy not used!
Seven guides are being developed, along with " how to "
videos, providing practical information and applications
for our members to understand how to design new and
renovate existing buildings to reduce or eliminate carbon
emissions.
The fi rst guide-Building Performance Standards-was
released in February of 2023 and is available for free
download on our website. The other guides are anticipated
to be released this coming Society year.
We are also providing training through ASHRAE
Learning Institute courses focusing on building decarbonization,
as well as providing invaluable technical
guidance focusing on our commitment of reducing
carbon emissions with the release of a new Building
Decarbonization resource page.
We have also expanded our focus from providing
guidance on energy-related carbon, or operational
carbon, to focusing on the whole life cycle of carbon
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in buildings-this is the carbon that goes into our
buildings during construction, during the building
life and during its demolition.
We are retooling the focus of our existing standards
to address carbon as well as energy, including
our major standards like 90.1, Standard 100 and the
International Green Construction Code (IgCC).
ASHRAE is addressing the greenhouse-gas emissions
of refrigerants in Standards 15 and 34. Refrigerant leakage
is a huge contributor to greenhouse gas emissions
each year and our TFBD is discussing how to address this
issue within the ASHRAE structure.
We have also developed two new standards addressing
carbon as well as energy-Standard 228 was recently
released, which provides a standard method of evaluating
zero net energy and zero net carbon building
performance.
And Standard 240P, which is in the fi nal stages of
addressing public review comments, will provide a
methodology to assess greenhouse gas emissions associated
with buildings over their life cycle. This standard
went from conception to public review in just 4
months-an ASHRAE record-which shows what we can
do when we want to move fast.
We have worked to integrate a carbon-reduction focus
throughout our ASHRAE committees, councils and leadership
and provide our industry with a clear indication
of our commitment to this issue. We have several other
initiatives underway, with a plan for their completion
during this society year.
The Honors and Awards committee is developing a
new award based on carbon metrics named after Eunice
Foote. We hope the fi rst awardee will be at the 2024
Annual Conference in Indianapolis.
Last year, the ASHRAE Hellenic Chapter held
ASHRAE's fi rst Decarbonization Conference in Athens,
Greece. This year, we are expanding that focus with an
industry-wide decarbonization conference in the fall
of 2023 in the Washington, D.C., area where we will be
bringing together architects, engineers, facility managers,
owners and operators to discuss how we, as an
industry, will be addressing the impact of buildings on
carbon emissions. We are also in the preliminary planning
stages of our third decarbonization conference in
the Spring of 2024 in Madrid, Spain.
ASHRAE is also leading the industry by working to
reduce our own Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions. We are
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