Last week, ASHRAE published a press release announcing the creation of ASHRAE
Standard 214P, Standard for Determining and Expressing Building Energy
Performance in a Rating Program, to standardize building rating programs.
According to the article, the standard
would establish requirements for:
- Disclosure of building energy use
via a rating label and supporting summary documentation
- Determining and expressing energy
use, with metered data, of buildings and building sites that are in
operation
- Acceptable credentialing criteria
for individuals applying the standard and reporting building energy use
- Pre-occupancy (design) and
post-occupancy (in operation) conditions
- Format and content of the rating
disclosure, the label and supporting documentation
“There are many entities that are rating
buildings utilizing a number of different building rating systems yielding
varying results,” Wayne Stoppelmoor, chair of the Standard 214P committee,
said.
“Feedback from government and regulatory agencies has shown there is an
overwhelming need for a standard that provides uniformity in the building
energy labeling and disclosure process. We want to provide a non-commercial
consensus standard that can be used in international, national and regional
legislation, policy making and regulation activities. The goal is to write a
standard that provides guidance for establishing rating systems that produce
meaningful and consistent results.”
The proposed standard is currently open
for public comment until Sept. 28, 2015. To learn more or to comment, visit http://www.ashrae.org/publicreviews.
Kim Ream, Marketing Project Manager