The goal of any containment system is to improve the intake air temperatures and deliver cooling efficiently to the IT equipment, thereby creating an environment where changes can be made that will lower operating costs and increase cooling capacity.
In addition to honors and award recognitions, updates from society leaders, and the installation of new officers, Ginger Scoggins, incoming 2023-24 ASHRAE president and fellow ASHRAE, will present her inaugural address and share the society theme for the coming year — “Challenge Accepted: Tackling the Climate Crisis.”
The agreement defines parameters by which the organizations will support a more sustainable built environment
October 5, 2021
Areas of alliance include ongoing advancement of collaborative projects, consistent leadership communication of major initiatives between organizations, and discussion of new collaborative opportunities.
TC 9.9 is composed of a wide range of industry representatives who are all committed to increasing and sharing the body of knowledge related to data centers.
Teams are working behind the scenes on longer-lead time COVID-19 retrofits and conversions for hospitals, hotels and dormitories. Many of these are aimed at increasing the supply of coronavirus-patient intensive care units and airborne infection isolation rooms to protect health-care workers.
ASHRAE has created the Epidemic Task Force, comprised of leading experts, to address the relationship between the spread of disease and HVAC in buildings during of the current pandemic and future epidemics.
Technology Care launched AirCheckup DATA, an air quality card for data centers that changes color when exposed to particulate matter and corrosive gases.
ASHRAE, a global nonprofit membership organization with more than 57,000 members in more than 130 countries worldwide, has been leading the engineering and development of facility standards and guidelines for 120-plus years.
Achieve energy efficiency while avoiding potential reliability issues
December 11, 2019
ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 90.4-2019, Energy Standard for Data Centers, establishes the minimum energy-efficiency requirements for the design and operation of data centers, with special consideration to their unique load requirements compared to other buildings.