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March 15, 2010 Contact: Jodi Scott Public Relations 678-539-1140 Amanda Dean Existing Building Upgrades: Energy-Conserving Practices and Policies Focus of NYC ASHRAE Conference ATLANTA – From the city’s most recognizable building to its first green commercial office tower, lessons learned underneath the sustainability skyline of New York City will be shared at an ASHRAE speciality conference in April. Among the speakers at ASHRAE’s Existing Buildings in Urban Areas: Dramatically Cutting the Energy Waste, are Tony Malkin, president, Malkin Properties, a real estate firm that owns and manages over 14 million square feet of office, retail residential and other properties in 15 states, including the Empire State Building, and Jody Durst, co-president, The Durst Organization, the owner, manager and builder of 9 million square feet of mid-town Manhattan office and residential properties, including 4 Times Square. These owners will help highlight NYC’s ground-breaking “Greener, Greater Buildings” laws, the first in the nation to address energy usage in existing buildings. The ASHRAE conference serves to guide the building community and government in reducing energy in existing buildings. The conference takes place April 19-20, 2010, at the Grand Hyatt in New York, N.Y. To register or for more information, visit www.ashrae.org/cutenergywaste. The conference is endorsed by BOMA International and the U.S. Green Building Council and sponsored by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority. Malkin and Durst are taking part in an April 19 panel focused on real estate executives. They will share lessons learned in making their properties sustainable and discuss why sustainability is a driving force in the real estate industry. “The founders of these two organizations helped construct the city’s skyline,” Michael Bobker, conference chair said. “And today’s generation is working to make that skyline more sustainable. The Empire State Building is undergoing a $500 million renovation with a focus on greatly reduced energy consumption and carbon emissions. And the Durst property portfolio sets new standards for use of new technologies. They truly can speak to our conference goal of cutting energy waste.” Also taking place at the conference is a session on Energy Performance Rating and Disclosure, which will include an update on ASHRAE’s Building Energy Quotient program. The program, launched in a pilot phase in December, serves to inform building owners and operators, tenants and prospective buyers on the energy use of buildings, to encourage the building industry to find ways to cut energy use and costs. Some 25 buildings, represented by leading building owners and designers, real estate developers and government agencies, are involved in the pilot program. On April 20, a breakfast talk on Strategizing an Urban Campaign is featured. Those taking part include representatives of ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability, an international association of local governments as well as national and regional local government organizations that have made a commitment to sustainable development, and Rohit T. Aggarwala, director, the Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability, City of New York. Aggarwala will provide an update on Plan NYC, New York City’s ambitious long-term sustainability plan. Also taking place on April 20 is a session Real Estate Decision-Making – Bridging the Gap between Engineers and Decision-Makers. Featured speakers from TIAA-CREF, Sentinel Real Estate Corp. and Prudential Real Estate Investors will evaluate investment in energy efficiency in existing buildings. Real estate decision makers will explain opportunity cost of capital and other barriers to investing, as well as what drives them to invest and what they need to see from engineering companies and energy service companies. The conference addresses investment and financial decision-making, effective public policies, and necessary technical steps (energy audits, commissioning, retro-commissioning, benchmarking of utility consumption, and design and construction of energy related problems). ASHRAE, founded in 1894, is an international organization of some 50,000 persons. ASHRAE fulfills its mission of advancing heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration to serve humanity and promote a sustainable world through research, standards writing, publishing and continuing education. ### March 11, 2010Contact: Jodi Scott Public Relations 678-539-1140 Amanda Dean First of its kind collaboration designed to boost critical green building practices across the country ICC, ASHRAE, USGBC and IES Announce Nation’s First Set of Model Codes and Standards for Green Building in the U.S. ATLANTA – What do organizations representing building safety professionals, energy and lighting engineers, green building practitioners, architects and technical standards developers have in common? They have all come together to green the nation’s built environment by establishing a comprehensive model green building code designed to rapidly advance green building practice across the U.S. The International Code Council (ICC), the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), and the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES) today announce the launch of the International Green Construction Code (IGCC), representing the merger of two national efforts to develop adoptable and enforceable green building codes. The IGCC provides the building industry with language that both broadens and strengthens building codes in a way that will accelerate the construction of high performance green buildings across the U.S. For decades, ICC and ASHRAE have worked to develop codes and standards that become the industry standard of care for the design, construction, operations and maintenance of residential and commercial buildings in the U.S. and internationally. In coordination with the efforts of ICC and ASHRAE, USGBC has been leading a nationwide green building movement centered on the LEED Green Building Rating System since LEED was launched in 2000. The convergence of these efforts in the IGCC is perhaps the most significant development in the buildings industry in the past 10 years. Leveraging ICC’s unrivaled delivery infrastructure to reach all 50 states and more than 22,000 local jurisdictions and ASHRAE, USGBC and IES’s technical strengths, this partnership will accelerate the proliferation of green building codes and standards developed jointly by ICC, ASHRAE and USGBC and IES, across the country and around the globe. The newly launched International Green Construction Code (IGCC) establishes a previously unimaginable regulatory framework for the construction of high performance commercial buildings that are safe, sustainable and by the book. A landmark addition to the technical content of the IGCC is the inclusion of ANSI/ASHRAE/USGBC/IES Standard 189.1, Standard for the Design of High Performance, Green Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings, as an alternate path of compliance. Standard 189.1 is a set of technically rigorous requirements, which like the IGCC, covers criteria including water use efficiency, indoor environmental quality, energy efficiency, materials and resource use, and the building’s impact on its site and its community. Standard 189.1 was written by experts representing all areas of the building industry, who contributed tens of thousands of man hours. Developed in a little over three years, the standard underwent four public reviews in which some 2,500 comments were received. “The emergence of green building codes and standards is an important next step for the green building movement, establishing a much-needed set of baseline regulations for green buildings that is adoptable, usable and enforceable by jurisdictions,” said ICC Chief Executive Officer Richard P. Weiland. “The IGCC provides a vehicle for jurisdictions to regulate green for the design and performance of new and renovated buildings in a manner that is integrated with existing codes as an overlay, allowing all new buildings to reap the rewards of improved design and construction practices.” “Bringing together the code expertise of ICC with technical expertise of ASHRAE to create a comprehensive green building code will accelerate our transformation to more sustainable building practices,” Gordon Holness, ASHRAE president, said. “ASHRAE is committed to providing the design guidance building designers and engineers need to reduce the energy consumption of buildings.” “The U.S. Green Building Council’s mission is market transformation and we’ve long recognized the need to reach beyond the market leaders served by LEED to accomplish this goal,” said Rick Fedrizzi, President, CEO and Founding Chairman of the U.S. Green Building Council. “Broadening the scope of the codes and establishing a higher floor allows us to continue to raise the ceiling, a critical factor in how the building industry is working to mitigate climate change. We are thrilled to see this set of complementary green building codes and standards; our organizations working collaboratively will advance green building nationwide in a way that was never before possible. ” "IES is pleased to support the collaborative efforts of the organizations which demonstrate expertise in code and technical standards development in this comprehensive green building code,” said Rita Harrold, IES Director of Technology. “IES looks forward to ongoing guidance for sustainable building practices." On Monday, March 15, ASHRAE, IES and USGBC will join ICC at its Washington, DC headquarters as they and their co-authors (the American Institute of Architects and the American Society for Testing Materials) launch the IGCC. On Monday, Standard 189 .1 and the IGCC will be available for wide distribution, providing much-needed content, code language, and vision for more safe and sustainable future. The organizations are also working together to advance related education and advocacy efforts to promote adoption, enforcement and compliance with the IGCC codes that will pave the way for green buildings and neighborhoods, while creating jobs and strengthening the economy. For more information on IGCC: http://www.intlcode.org/cs/IGCC/Pages/default.aspx and on Standard 189.1: www.ashrae.org/greenstandard. ### March 8, 2010 Contact: Jodi Scott Public Relations 678-539-1140 21 Changes Proposed for Standard 90.1 ATLANTA – Public input to help shape the technical requirements in Standard 90.1 is being sought through 21 proposed addenda, which could become part of the 2010 standard. ANSI/ASHRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1-2007, Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings,The proposed addenda cover a range of topic areas, including daylighting, air leakage, EER and IEER values and requirements for VRF air conditioners and heat pumps. provides minimum requirements for the energy-efficient design of buildings except low-rise residential buildings. “Our goal is to produce a standard to increase energy efficiency in buildings,” Mick Schwedler, Standard 90.1 committee chair, stated. “Public input from the industry into development of the standard has proven invaluable since it was first published 35 years ago.” If no comments are received on the addenda, they likely will be incorporated into the 2010 version of the standard slated to be published this fall. If comments are received, the substance and volume of those comments will determine whether they are incorporated into the 2010 standard. Among the proposed addenda are two that deal with daylighting. Addendum cu, which would control the “night lights” that are part of the emergency system when there are no occupants in the space. Today, generally by default, lights are kept on even if buildings are unoccupied. Therefore, there are savings to shut them off. Addendum ct would reduce the threshold for daylighting to 250 square feet from 1,000 square feet. In another area, addendum bu would modify computer room efficiency requirements based on comments from an earlier public review. “The 90.1 committee worked closely with manufacturers, designers and owners of computer rooms to address comments and produce the language in this addendum,” said Drake Erbe, Mechanical Subcommittee chair. Below is a listing of proposed addenda: Public Reviews from March 5-April 4, 2010:
· Addendum cz – would incorporates bi-level control for parking garages to reduce the wasted energy associated with unoccupied periods for many garages and allows an exception for lighting in the transition (entrance/exit) areas to accommodate IES recommendations.
Public Reviews from March 5-April 19, 2010:
The proposed addenda to ASHRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1 are available for comment only during their public review period. To read the addenda or to comment, visit www.ashrae.org/publicreviews. ASHRAE, founded in 1894, is an international organization of some 50,000 persons. ASHRAE fulfills its mission of advancing heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration to serve humanity and promote a sustainable world through research, standards writing, publishing and continuing education. ### March 5, 2010Contact: Jodi Scott Public Relations 678-539-1140 Members Sought for Committee First Changes Proposed to New Green Standard: Daylighting Addressed ATLANTA—Members are being sought and changes proposed for the new standard for the design of high-performance green buildings published in January. ANSI/ASHRAE/USGBC/IES Standard 189.1, Standard for the Design of High-Performance, Green Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings, is the first code-intended commercial green building standard in the United States. The standard provides a long-needed green building foundation for those who strive to design, build and operate green buildings. It covers key topic areas of site sustainability, water use efficiency, energy efficiency, indoor environmental quality and the building’s impact on the atmosphere, materials and resources. Under ASHRAE’s continuous maintenance procedure, which allows requests for change to any part of the standard to be made at any time, changes have already been proposed. “Given the high amount of interest in this standard, using continuous maintenance allows us to incorporate current technical information on a timely basis,” Kent Peterson, chair of the committee said. “These changes are then put out for public review and comment, which results in an industry consensus standard.” Open for public comment are addenda a and b. Addendum a makes the daylighting definitions and criteria consistent with changes recently proposed to Standard 90.1, which sets requirements for energy efficient buildings. Addendum b reduces the space limitation for daylighting requirements. Rather than requiring daylighting in space larger than 1,000 square feet, the proposal would require it in spaces larger than 250 square feet. Members also are being sought for the committee developing the standard with slots opening July 1. The deadline to apply is March 31. For more information on membership, contact standardssection@ashrae.org For more information on the proposed addenda, visit www.ashrae.org/publicreviews. For complete information on the standard, visit www.ashrae.org/greenstandard. *****
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