Meeting/Event Information

Max H. Sherman, Ph.D.

ASHRAE’s Residential Ventilation Standards

In 1996 ASHRAE decided to split one of its major standards, Standard 62 into pieces representing different major occupancies.  ASHRAE Standard 62.2 was first passed in 2003 and is republished regularly—the most recent of which is 2016.  This talk will explain what is in the standard, what it means to occupants and to those professionals who do residential design, and a bit of how it all came to be.  The enhanced interest in high performing homes has generated a string of controversies on facets of this standard and these will be discussed. The need to continually improve this standard has led to the need to improve related standards such as those for filter efficiency, air tightness measurements, flow hood calibration and range-hood capture efficiency.