62 Offers Ventilation Rates to Control Odors, Irritants
Jump to full article: American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), 2003-08-03
Author: Jul/2003 Vol 18/Issue 7
Intro: An addendum that changes the ventilation requirements in ASHRAE's Standard 62 to apply only to nonsmoking spaces while still providing design guidance for controlling odor in indoor spaces where smoking occurs is now available.
ANSI/ASHRAE Addendum 62o to ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 62-2001, Ventilation for Acceptable Indoor Air Quality, is now available for free.
The addendum was approved for publication at ASHRAE's 2002 Annual Meeting, and six appeals later were filed. ASHRAE considered but denied the appeals at its 2003 Winter Meeting. The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) approved the addendum but appeals have been filed. The addendum remains ANSI-approved unless appeals are later upheld.
Addendum 62o changes the table of outdoor air ventilation requirements in the standard to apply to nonsmoking spaces only, including the deletion of smoking lounges from a table on outdoor air requirements for ventilation. . .
An informative appendix (meaning it is not required for compliance for the standard) that provides a method to allow designers to determine the additional ventilation over what would be provided in a similar nonsmoking area also is included. However, this additional ventilation is for the purpose of odor control only, according to Persily.
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