{"id":154128,"date":"2016-02-10T14:16:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T14:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leedpoints.com\/?guid=535b739c694ca5477d2f1c856bdf1cb7"},"modified":"2016-02-10T14:16:06","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T14:16:06","slug":"unvented-gas-appliance-industry-fails-to-impress-ashrae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/unvented-gas-appliance-industry-fails-to-impress-ashrae\/","title":{"rendered":"Unvented Gas Appliance Industry Fails to Impress ASHRAE"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Prime:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                     prime        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Subtitle:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    A research study they paid for and presented at the residential ventilation standard committee meeting hurt their case        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Images:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/unvented-gas-appliance-industry-fails-impress-ashrae\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/ventless-unvented-gas-log-fireplace-indoor-air-quality-iaq.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Unvented gas log fireplace\" width=\"144\" height=\"108\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Unvented combustion appliances were added to the scope of <span>ASHRAE<\/span><span>American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE).<br \/>\nInternational organization dedicated to the advancement of heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration through research, standards writing, publishing, and continuing education. Membership is open to anyone in the HVAC&amp;R field; the organization has about 50,000 members.<br \/>\n<\/span>&#8216;s residential ventilation and <span>IAQ<\/span><span>Indoor air quality. Healthfulness of an interior environment; IAQ is affected by such factors as moisture and mold, emissions of volatile organic compounds from paints and finishes, formaldehyde emissions from cabinets, and ventilation effectiveness.<\/span> standard (standard 62.2) recently. The committee has begun their deliberations on the issue, and at ASHRAE&#8217;s winter meeting in Orlando last month, the unvented gas appliance industry folks attempted a defense of their products. Based on the results they presented and the reaction from most committee members, I&#8217;d say they failed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/unvented-gas-appliance-industry-fails-impress-ashrae\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7804,8205,2482,1051,13836],"class_list":["post-154128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","tag-combustion-safety","tag-fireplace","tag-indoor-air-quality","tag-natural-gas","tag-unvented-gas-fireplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}