This document provides information about the benefits of becoming a member of ASHRAE, the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers. It outlines various membership benefits including discounts on publications, access to technical information and resources, opportunities to participate in committees and conferences. It also describes some key publications and resources that members receive including the ASHRAE Journal, access to the ASHRAE Handbook online, and discounts on standards and guidelines. The document promotes joining ASHRAE and directs readers to the website for more membership details and an online application.

2. Become an ASHRAE Member
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Receive member discounts on ASHRAE publications
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Get insider’s access to state-of- the-art HVAC&R technology and information
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Access countless opportunities to participate in the development of new technologies
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Participate locally, through chapters or through committee membership
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Join a standards project committee or technical committee and advise the Society on research needs, emerging technologies, and technical matters
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ASHRAE Journal
Members around the world qualify for the monthly ASHRAE Journal in print, digital or both formats, and have free access to archived issues on ASHRAE.org.
ASHRAE Handbook and ASHRAE Handbook Online
New members get a free edition of the 2014 ASHRAE Handbook and a complimentary one-year subscription to ASHRAE Handbook Online. This great online reference gives you:
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Immediate access to all four volumes of the ASHRAE Handbook (I-P and
SI editions)
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Standard 90.1-2013 — Energy Standard for
Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings
Standard 90.1 offers detailed minimum energy-efficient requirements
for the design and construction of new buildings. The 2013 edition has
been expanded to include new features, an expanded scope, and more
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100 addenda.
Product Code: 86273 (I-P), 86275 (SI)
174 pages
$135 (ASHRAE Member $115, Student Member $57)
2013
Standard 189.1-2011 — Standard for the Design of
High-Performance Green Buildings
Providing a “total building sustainability package” for those who strive
to design, build and operate green buildings, Standard 189.1 sets the
foundation for green buildings by addressing site sustainability, water
use efficiency, energy efficiency, indoor environmental quality, and the
building’s impact on the atmosphere, materials and resources. Standard
189.1 serves as a compliance option in the 2012 International Green
Construction Code™ (IgCC) published by the International Code Council.
Product Code: 86604
114 pages
$119 (ASHRAE Member $99, Student Member $49)
2011
LEADING THE WAY IN ENERGY EFFICIENCY
ASHRAE Top Seller
Fundamentals of HVAC Control Systems
This book provides a thorough introduction and a practical guide to the
principles and characteristics of HVAC controls. It describes how to use,
select, specify and design control systems. This book is an excellent tool
for building owners and operators, mechanical engineers, mechanical
contractors, and facility engineers.
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ASHRAE GreenGuide, Fourth Edition
The latest edition of ASHRAE GreenGuide is an easy-to-use reference
with information on almost any subject that should be considered in
green-building design. Each stage of the building process is examined,
from planning to operation and maintenance of a facility. GreenTips found
throughout this edition highlight techniques, processes, measures, or special
systems. Information is provided in dual units, and references and resources
mentioned are listed at the end of each chapter for easy access.
Product Code: 90323
543 pages
ISBN: 978-1-936504-55-8
$103 (ASHRAE Member $87, Student Member $59)
2013
Energy Efficiency Guides for Existing Commercial
Buildings
Intended for building engineers and managers with a working knowledge
of building systems, these references provide specific and practical
energy efficiency measures that will help achieve the goal of building
sustainability while reducing energy costs.
Product Code: B90374
314 pages
ISBN: 978-1-936504-44-2
$80 (ASHRAE Member $66)
2012
LEADING THE WAY IN ENERGY EFFICIENCY
ASHRAE Top Seller
ASHRAE Pocket Guide for Air-Conditioning,
Heating, Ventilation and Refrigeration, 8th Ed.
The ASHRAE Pocket Guide, available in I-P or SI units, is packed with
practical and useful information and is designed for immediate use.
This eighth edition, revised and expanded for 2013, includes data from
the four current volumes of the ASHRAE Handbook series, including
the 2013 ASHRAE Handbook—Fundamentals, and from the 2010 and
2013 editions of ASHRAE standards 15, 34, 55, 62.1, 62.2, and 90.1.
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CLIMATE DATA
International Weather for Energy Calculations,
Version 2.0
This DVD contains “typical” weather files, suitable for use with building
energy simulation programs, for 3,012 locations outside the United States
and Canada. For instant access via web, IWEC2 weather files can also be
purchased individually or as sets by country or region; visit www.ashrae.
org/climatedata for more information.
Product Code: 94051
DVD-ROM
ISBN: 978-1-936504-20-6
$229 (ASHRAE Member $199)
2012
Weather Data Viewer, Version 5.0
This DVD provides comprehensive climate data for the 6,643 locations
listed in the 2013 ASHRAE Handbook—Fundamentals. Version 5.0 has been
expanded to include 879 new stations, new elements of wind direction and
precipitation, and new calculators.
Product Code: 94059
DVD-ROM
ISBN: 978-1-936504-56-5
$119 (ASHRAE Member $99)
2013
ASHRAE Top Seller
Procedures for Commercial Building Energy
Audits Second Edition
This reference defines best practices for energy survey and analytics
for purchasers and providers of energy audit services. This full-color
edition provides updated guidance for energy consulting engineers,
LEED® professionals, real estate professionals, building owners and
building managers, plus access to customizable spreadsheet forms.
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DATACOM SERIES
The ASHRAE Datacom series, authored by ASHRAE Technical Committee 9.9, provides a
comprehensive treatment of datacom cooling and related subjects.
Titles in the ASHRAE Datacom Series:
• Thermal Guidelines for Data Processing Environments
• Datacom Equipment Power Trends and Cooling Applications
• Design Considerations for Datacom Equipment Centers
• Liquid Cooling Guidelines for Datacom Equipment Centers
• Structural and Vibration Guidelines for Datacom Equipment Centers
• Best Practices for Datacom Facility Energy Efficiency
• High-Density Data Centers - Case Studies and Best Practices
• Particulate and Gaseous Contamination in Datacom Environments
• Real-Time Energy Consumption Measurements in Data Centers
• Green Tips for Data Centers
• PUE: A Comprehensive Examination of the Metric
Data Center Essentials: Guidance on Energy-Efficient
Design and Operation
This volume assembles into one publication all the information needed to
design, operate, and maintain energy-efficient data centers. This reference
includes content from six ASHRAE Datacom books as well as Data Center
Design and Operation: ASHRAE Datacom Series CD.
Product Code: B90013
1,060 pages
ISBN: 978-1-936504-51-0
$289 (ASHRAE Member $189)
2013
PUE™: A Comprehensive Examination of the Metric
Power usage effectiveness (PUE™) has become the industry-preferred metric
for measuring infrastructure energy efficiency for data centers. This lastest
edition to the series describes the concepts surrounding PUE, while providing
in-depth application knowledge and resources to those implementing and
reporting data center metrics.
Product Code: 90282
88 pages
ISBN: 978-1-936504-60-2
$59 (ASHRAE Member $50)
2013

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HEALTH CARE RESOURCES
HVAC Design Manual for Hospitals and Clinics,
Second Edition
This new edition provides in-depth, up-to-date recommendations based on
best practices from consulting and hospital engineers with vast experience
in design, construction, and operation of health care facilities.
Product Code: 90550
312 pages
ISBN: 978-1-936504-39-8
$129 (ASHRAE Member $109)
2013
Standard 170-2013 — Ventilation of Health Care
Facilities
Standard 170 defines ventilation system design requirements that provide
environmental control for comfort, asepsis, and odor in health care
facilities.
Product Code: 86515
16 pages
$58 (ASHRAE Member $48)
2013
ASHRAE Top Seller
Handbook of Smoke Control Engineering
Published in cooperation with ICC, NFPA, and SFPE, the Handbook
of Smoke Control Engineering provides authoritative, comprehensive
guidance on the latest in smoke control practice, incorporating the
latest research and current engineering approaches.
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ANSI/ASHRAE/IES 90.1 - Energy Standard for Buildings, Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings
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ANSI/ASHRAE 135 - BACnet® - A Data Communication Protocol for Building Automation and Control Networks
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DISTRICT SYSTEM DESIGN GUIDANCE
District Cooling and Heating Guides
The District Heating and Cooling Guides, also sold separately,
provide design guidance for all major aspects of district heating and
cooling systems, including central plants, distributions, consumer
interconnections, operations and maintenance, planning system
enhancement and integration of thermal storage.
Product Code: B90017
610 pages
ISBNs: 978-1-936504-42-8, 978-1-936504-43-5
$179 (ASHRAE Member $152)
2013
District/Central Solar Hot Water Systems Design
Guide
This reference provides recommendations on optimal and reliable
configurations of solar water heating systems in different climates,
with design specifications, planning principles, and guidelines for these
systems.
Product Code: 90576
328 pages
ISBN: 978-1-936504-52-7
$99 (ASHRAE Member $84)
2013
ASHRAE Top Seller
Practical Guide to Seismic Restraint, Second
Edition
This illustrated second edition shows how to design, specify, and
install seismic restraints for all mechanical and plumbing systems in
buildings to meet the latest code requirements.
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IAQ RESOURCES
Standard 62.1-2013 — Ventilation for Acceptable
Indoor Air Quality
ASHRAE’s primary standard for indoor air quality has been revised for
greater consistency and clarity, and includes modifications addressing
underfloor air distribution systems, filtration and exhaust requirements,
and more.
Product Code: 86142
54 pages
$79 (ASHRAE Member $67, Student Member $33)
2013
Standard 62.2-2013 — Ventilation and Acceptable
Indoor Air Quality in Low-Rise Residential
Buildings
This new edition includes changes to mechanical ventilation rates, climate
limitations on pressurization, carbon monoxide alarms, and leakage
estimates.
Product Code: 86176
50 pages
$58 (ASHRAE Member $48)
2013
Indoor Air Quality Guide: Best Practices for Design,
Construction and Commissioning
ASHRAE’s Indoor Air Quality Guide is designed for architects, design
engineers, contractors, commissioning agents, and all other professionals
concerned with IAQ. This comprehensive publication provides both
summary and detailed guidance in the form of a printed book and
accompanying CD. ASHRAE is also offering a free download at
www.ashrae.org/freeiaqguidance.
Product Code: 90408
ISBN: 978-1-933742-59-5
$25 (ASHRAE Member $21)
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FEATURED ASHRAE STANDARDS
Standard 15-2013 — Safety Standard for
Refrigeration Systems and Standard 34-2013 -
Designation and Classification of Refrigerants
Standard 15 establishes safeguards for life, limb, health, and property
and prescribes safety requirements. Standard 34 is intended to establish
a simple means of referring to common refrigerants instead of using the
chemical name, formula, or trade name.
Product Code: 86021
82 pages
$107 (ASHRAE Member $89)
2013
Standard 55-2013 — Thermal Environmental
Conditions for Human Occupancy
Standard 55 outlines conditions for environmental thermal acceptability
and is intended for use in design, commissioning and testing of buildings
and other occupied spaces and HVAC systems and for the evolution of
thermal environments.
Product Code: 86179
58 pages
$95 (ASHRAE Member $81, Student Member $39)
2013
Standard 202-2013 — Commissioning Process for
Buildings and Systems
Standard 202-2013 describes how to plan, conduct, and document this
vital part of a successful project.
Product Code: 86628
50 pages
$72 (ASHRAE Member $61)
2013
Standard 135-2012 — BACnet®-A Data
Communication Protocol for Building Automation
and Control Networks
Standard 135-2012, ASHRAE’s building automation and control networking
protocol (BACnet®) standard, has been designed specifically to meet the
communication needs of building automation and control systems.
Product Code: 86439
1,052 pages
$170 (ASHRAE Member $140)
2012

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Principles of Heating, Ventilating and Air
Conditioning, 7th Edition
Based on the 2013 ASHRAE Handbook—Fundamentals, this textbook
contains the most current ASHRAE procedures and easy-to-understand
treatment of building HVAC systems, from basic principles through design
and operation.
Product Code: 90557
600 pages
ISBN: 978-1-936504-57-2
$94 (ASHRAE Member $79, Student Member $58)
2013
2013 ASHRAE Handbook — Fundamentals
The 2013 ASHRAE Handbook covers basic principles and data used in
the HVAC&R industry. Updated with research sponsored by ASHRAE and
others, this volume includes 1,000 pages and 39 chapters covering general
engineering information, basic materials, climate data, load and energy
calculations, duct and pipe design, and sustainability, plus reference tables
for abbreviations and symbols, I-P to SI conversions, and physical properties
of materials.
Product Code: 90557
ISBN: 978-1-936504-45-9
$199 (CD-ROM $179)
2013
Understanding Psychrometrics, Third Edition
Understanding Psychrometrics serves as a lifetime reference manual and
basic refresher course for those who use psychrometrics on a recurring
basis and provides a four- to six-hour psychrometrics learning module to
students, air-conditioning designers, meteorologists and others.
Product Code: 90167
405 pages
ISBN: 978-1-936504-31-2
$99 (ASHRAE Member $84, Student Member $45)
2013
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES AND TEXTBOOKS

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UFAD Guide: Design, Construction and Operation
of Underfloor Air Distribution Systems
This guide provides essential information on the design of underfloor
air distribution (UFAD) systems that are energy efficient, intelligently
operated, and effective.
Product Code: 90452
334 pages
ISBN: 978-1-936501-49-7
$99 (ASHRAE Member $84)
2013
ASHRAE Duct Fitting Database, Version 6.00.00
This database includes loss coefficient tables for more than 200 round,
rectangular and flat oval duct fittings. The updated version includes an
integrated database; fully available input, output calculations, and table
data properties; and easily viewable calculations that update in real time.
Product Code: 94604
CD-ROM
ISBN: 978-1-936504-15-2
$199 (ASHRAE Member $169)
2011
ASHRAE Thermal Comfort Tool, Version 2
This tool provides a user-friendly interface for calculating thermal comfort
parameters and making predictions using several existing thermal comfort
models. Version 2 maintains consistency with ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 55-
2010, Thermal Environmental Conditions for Human Occupancy, focuses on
the Adaptive and Predicted Mean Vote (PMV) Models, and has an updated
user interface.
Product Code: 94031
CD-ROM
ISBN: 978-1-936504-11-4
$117 (ASHRAE Member $99)
2011
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