Sustainability

The National Capital Chapter of ASHRAE has a Sustainability Committee dedicated to the following objectives: 

  • Promote sustainable design education within and outside of the A/E/C community
  • Encourage and promote research related to energy efficiency and IEQ
  • Provide other major environmental organizations, such as USGBC, with support and technical resources
  • Represent ASHRAE at high-performance building events
  • Support ASHRAE’s efforts to strengthen building simulation and energy benchmarking
  • Support community volunteering initiatives in the region
  • Reduce the environmental footprint of chapter activities 

ASHRAE published a sustainability roadmap in 2006:

http://www.engineeringforsustainability.org/docs/sustainability_roadmap.pdf