Federal Building Standard Could Cut Energy 18% ? Environmental ...

July 12, 2013

Federal Building Standard Could Cut Energy 18%

A major efficiency boost has received little media attention. The Energy Department has just published a rule updating federal building standards to align with?the 2010 version of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Standard 90.1. According to the DOE, this could save 18.2 percent more energy in commercial buildings than the 2007 version of the standard. And since the feds account for about 2 percent of all building energy consumption in the country, that?s no small potatoes.

Significant changes in the new standard include:

• More stringent building?.

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Source: http://www.environmentalleader.com/2013/07/12/federal-building-standard-could-cut-energy-18/

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