Each of the guides in the AEDG series provides recommendations and user-friendly design assistance to designers, developers, and owners of small commercial buildings that will encourage steady progress toward net-zero energy buildings. The guides provide prescriptive recommendation packages that are capable of reaching the energy savings target for each climate zone to ease the burden of the design and construction of energy-efficient small commercial buildingsThe AEDG-HL was developed in 7 months by an ASHRAE special project committee comprised of representatives of each of the partner organizations. This TSD describes the charge given to the committee in developing the highway lodging guide and outlines the schedule of the development effort. The project committee developed two prototype highway lodgings to represent the class of highway lodging buildings. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) then performed an energy simulation analysis to determine the energy efficiency necessary to meet the energy savings target. The simulation approach used by the project committee and PNNL is documented in this TSD, along with the characteristics of the prototype buildings (which were based on data from F.W. Dodge and the Energy Information Administration (EIA 2006)). The prototype buildings were simulated in the same climate zones used by the prevailing energy codes and standards to evaluate energy savings.Prescriptive packages of recommendations presented in the Guide by climate zone include enhanced envelope technologies, interior and exterior lighting technologies, heating, ventilation, and airconditioning (HVAC) and service water heating (SWH) technologies, and miscellaneous appliance technologies. The report also documents the modeling assumptions used in the simulations for both the baseline and advanced prototypical buildings. The authors would like to thank all the members of the project committee for their tremendous volunteering efforts and significant inputs to our energy analysis work during the development of the Advanced Energy Design Guide for Highway Lodging Buildings. Without the committee members' expertise in producing the energy efficiency recommendations covering envelop, lighting, HAVC systems, and service water heating systems, this document would not have been successful.Last, but not least, the authors would like to specially recognize Andrew Nicholls, the program manager overseeing the Commercial Building Integration Program at PNNL, for providing the thorough review of this document and for his support of this particular project. Finally, the authors greatly appreciate the assistance of Todd Taylor at PNNL. Todd constructed the cluster simulation structure in EnergyPlus, which allowed us to evaluate the many variations of energy efficiency technologies in a timely fashion to meet the project compressed schedule. Wei

Each of the guides in the AEDG series provides recommendations and user-friendly design assistance to designers, developers and owners of small commercial buildings that will encourage steady progress towards net-zero energy buildings. The guides provide prescriptive recommendation packages that are capable of reaching the energy savings target for each climate zone in order to ease the burden of the design and construction of energy-efficient small commercial buildings The AEDG-SR was developed by an ASHRAE Special Project committee (SP-110) made up of representatives of each of the partner organizations in eight months. This TSD describes the charge given to the committee in developing the retail guide and outlines the schedule of the development effort. The project committee developed two prototype retail buildings (strip mall and standalone retail) to represent the class of small retail buildings and performed an energy simulation scoping study to determine the preliminary levels of efficiency necessary to meet the energy savings target. The simulation approach used by the project committee is documented in this TSD along with the characteristics of the prototype buildings (which were based on current chain retail stores). The prototype buildings were simulated in the same climate zones used by the prevailing energy codes and standards to evaluate energy savings.Prescriptive packages of recommendations presented in the guide by climate zone include enhanced envelope technologies, lighting and day lighting technologies and HVAC and SWH technologies. The report also documents the modeling assumptions used in the simulations for both the baseline and advanced buildings.

In June 1983, the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Standards Committee appointed an ad hoc committee to revise Standard 90 for Residential Buildings. The charge to the ad hoc committee was to start the technical thinking process for the creation of a separate ASHRAE Standard 90 for residential buildings and to make recommendations to the ASHRAE Standards Committee as to how such a standard might best be produced. This paper discusses the elements of the technical review process which included a quantitative assessment of the envelope requirements of American National Standards Institute (ANSI)/ASHRAE/Institute of Environmental Sciences (IES) Standard 90A-80 and comparisons between this standard and to the requirements of other standards and energy conservation guidelines. During the review of Standard 90A-80, many requirements were identified that should be incorporated into the development of a new residential standard. In this regard, criteria for the technical and economic basis of a residential standard are outlined and discussed. Finally, recommendations for the development of a methodology for producing a new data base for residential building envelopes, the means for updating the new data base in the future, new simpler compliance procedures, and more accurate trade-off compliance procedures are presented.

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