ASHRAE Releases Guideline 10P Draft

The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc. (ASHRAE) has released the first draft of Guideline 10P, “Criteria for Achieving Acceptable Indoor Environments,” for public review. “Guideline 10 will be most helpful to designers who want to understand the interactions between thermal conditions and indoor air quality,” according to Hal Levin, chair of the committee that wrote the guideline. “While the two are addressed separately in ASHRAE Standards 55 and 62, their important interactions are not,” he says. The comment period closes June 20, 2005. More information and a draft of the guideline are online at www.ashrae.org.