Our members
MAIN GOALS - GENERAL ACTIVITIES - FIELD OF EXPERTISES
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ASHRAE is a not-for-profit professional engineering society founded in 1896 with more than 50,000 individual members in 130 countries around the globe supporting 199 Chapters divided into 15 Regions. ASHRAE is a global leader in energy, health and human comfort in buildings. ASHRAE's mission is "to serve humanity by advancing the arts and sciences of heating, ventilation, air conditioning, refrigeration and their allied fields." ASHRAE's vision is "a healthy and sustainable built environment for all." ASHRAE accomplishes its mission by developing professional standards, education and training, conferences and expositions, research, certification and publishing technical guidance. |
ACTIVITY RELATED TO LOW GHG AND ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND RESILIENT BUILDINGS
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ASHRAE develops and maintains a suite of professional standards recognized globally that focus on improving the energy and sustainability performance of buildings. ASHRAE develops a wide spectrum of technical documents and design guides engineers use to make buildings more energy efficient. Many ASHRAE conferences, certification programs, and research projects focus on building sustainability. ASHRAE is aggressively pursuing building decarbonization, developing metrics for measuring and minimizing both operational and embodied carbon in buildings. |
