Tag: ACCA
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The Difficulties of Third-Party HVAC Design
Prime: prime Subtitle: How do we get everyone on the same page? Images: …
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The Difficulties of Third-Party HVAC Design
Prime: prime Subtitle: How do we get everyone on the same page? Images: …
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A 3-Ton Air Conditioner Will Rarely Give You 3 Tons of Cooling
Subtitle: Even when a cooling system is perfectly designed and installed, three factors can reduce an air conditioner’s capacity Images: Of course, there are more than three reasons that your 3-ton air conditioner isn’t really 3 tons, starting with the fact that it’s not 3 tons in weight. That unit refers to cooling capacity and…
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Guest Post: DOE Backs Down on Higher Furnace Efficiency Standards; Air Conditioning Standards also Being Challenged
In late 2011, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced increases in the minimum efficiency standards of residential furnaces and air conditioners. In the 30 northern states, the minimum efficiency rating of new furnaces was to be raised to 90 percent from its current level of 80 percent, starting May 31st, 2013. In the 20 southern…
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ACCA vs. BPI: The Brouhaha Over Energy Audit Standards
Subtitle: Thirteen organizations ask ANSI to cancel BPI’s accreditation Images: Probably the biggest news I heard at the 2013 RESNET conference this year was that the Air Conditioning Contractors of America (ACCA) and 12 other organizations had asked the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to have the Building Performance Institute’s (BPI) accreditation as a Standards…