ASHRAE

ASHRAE was founded in 1894 to serve as a source of technical standards and guidelines. Since that time, it has grown into an international society that offers educational information, courses, seminars, career guidence, and publications. The organization also promotes a code of ethics for HVAC professionals and provides for liaison with the general public. One of the most important functions of the organization is to promote research and development in efficient, environmentally friendly technologies.

Read more about ASHRAE: - The ASHRAE Web site contains more information.

Do you have something to add to this definition? Let us know. Send your comments to techterms@whatis.com

Digg This!     StumbleUpon     Del.icio.us

RELATED CONTENT Virgin builds data center from scratch on Verari blades Virgin America prevented data center buildout with Verari Systems BladeRack 2XT blade servers, along with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, water-chilled... ADC data center aiming for 1.1 PUE, LEED Platinum Advanced Data Centers is building a data center with a power usage effectiveness value of 1.1. In the process, ADC may achieve LEED Platinum status as... Oracle CIO details new Utah data center at LinuxWorld/Next Generation Data Center This month, Oracle breaks ground on a 200,000-square-foot data center in Utah. Oracle's CIO outlined the facility's resources at LinuxWorld/Next...

RELATED GLOSSARY TERMS Terms from Whatis.com − the technology online dictionary ambient temperature  (SearchDataCenter.com) Calibrated Vectored Cooling  (SearchDataCenter.com)