ASHRAE Handbook Volume tackles tall buildings.
Press Release Summary:
In addition to new chapter that focuses on design issues that tall building present, 2011 ASHRAE Handbook - HVAC Applications contains 60 chapters on broad range of applications, written to help HVAC/R design engineers and others use fundamentals, equipment, and systems described in other ASHRAE Handbook volumes. Topics range from residential, commercial, educational, and health care facilities to agriculture, aircraft, fire/smoke management, solar energy, seismic- and wind-resistant design.
Original Press Release:
New ASHRAE Handbook Volume Tackles Tall Buildings
ATLANTA - Tall buildings can be a tall order for HVAC designers. The newly published 2011 ASHRAE Handbook-HVAC Applications has a new chapter that focuses on the unique design issues that tall buildings present.
2011 HVAC Applications also contains 60 other chapters on a broad range of applications, written to help HVAC&R design engineers and others use the fundamentals, equipment and systems described in other ASHRAE Handbook volumes.
"HVAC Applications has up-to-date, real-world guidance from many of the world's leading authorities in their areas of expertise," Rex Noble, chair of the subcommittee that supervised the 2011 revision of the volume, said. "This volume covers an incredibly wide variety of topics, from residential, commercial, educational and health care facilities to agriculture, aircraft, fire and smoke management, solar energy, seismic- and wind-resistant design-even nuclear facilities. In addition to the new chapter on tall buildings, we have a second new chapter on ultraviolet germicidal irradiation."
The cost of the 2011 ASHRAE Handbook-HVAC Applications is $195 for the print version, which includes a searchable CD, or $165 for the CD only. ASHRAE members receive the print/CD version as a member benefit. The 2011 HVAC Applications volume also is being added to ASHRAE Handbook Online, (available at handbook.ashrae.org).
To order, contact ASHRAE Customer Service at 1-800-527-4723 (United States and Canada) or 404-636-8400 (worldwide) or visit http://www.ashrae.org/bookstore.
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.
