Recommendations for Energy Conservation Standards and Guidelines for New Commercial Buildings. Volume 1. Text of the Recommendations. Appendix A. Side-by-Side Comparison of the Recommendations and 90A-1980

摘要

The Energy Conservation for New Buildings Act of 1976, as amended, 42 USC Section 6831 et. seq. requires the US Department of Energy to issue energy conservation standards for the design of new commercial and residential buildings. The standards will be mandatory only for the design of new federal buildings, and will serve as voluntary guidelines for the design of new nonfederal buildings. This report documents the development and testing of a set of recommendations that will serve as the basis for the Congressionally-mandated conservation standard for new commercial buildings. The recommendations have been developed and tested over the past 18 months by a multidisciplinary project team. The report has been issued in four volumes consisting of 40 separate publications. Volume I contains the test of the recommendations for the conservation standard. Appendix A to Volume I compares (on a line-by-line basis) the recommendations with ASHRAE/IES Standard 90A-1980. This ASHRAE standard was the starting point for development of the recommendations. (ERA citation 09:016722)