Seminar 58 -- How Will Climate Change Affect Standards, Guidelines and the Way We Design? Part 1: Why Climate Change May Affect the Design of Buildings and Their Systems

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This is part one of a 3-seminar series. Part one will introduce the new ASHRAE Fundamentals Handbook Chapter on Climate Change with a discussion of climate change issues which are anticipated to effect changes in some standards, guidelines and, eventually, codes. It will include a review of the newest climate zone maps with zone creepage, additional climate change related information and an exploration of questions of whether it is good practice to continue using 30-year historic weather data for load calculations in view of rapid climate change.

1. Overview of the New Climate Change Chapter for the 2021 ASHRAE Fundamentals Handbook
   Janice Means, P.E., Life Member, Lawrence Technological University; ASHRAE, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2. Safeguarding Assets: Readiness in Capital Projects and Asset Management
   Ann Kosmal, F.A.I.A., LEED AP BD +C, CPHC, PDC, AIA, U.S. General Services Administration, Washington, DC
3. Our Design Conditions Are Already Changing
   Drury Crawley, Ph.D., BEMP, Fellow ASHRAE, Bentley Systems, Inc., Washington, DC