February Chapter Meeting: ASHRAE Standards Development Process

Industry relies on industry standards to establish the minimum requirements necessary to design, build and operate facilities. Some of these standards get adopted by federal, state, and local governments through legislature as enforceable codes. So where do these standards come from and how do they get developed? Naturally, first you need a standard for developing standards. This is the job of the American National Standards Institute, or ANSI. Surprising to many people, ANSI does not develop standards. Instead, ANSI facilitates the development of standards by accrediting the processes used by organizations to develop standards related to their respective purviews and community needs. Once accredited by ANSI, these organizations become “standards development organizations”, or SDOs. The role of ANSI is to ensure standards are developed in an open and objective manner that “ensures that all interested and affected parties have an opportunity to participate in a standard’s development” and that the development process be open, balanced, based on consensus and follow due process. This presentation will describe the ANSI standard development process in general, how this process is used by ASHRAE, and will use the recent development of ASHRAE Std 90.4 Energy Standard for Data Centers as a case study. It culminates with a discussion on how individuals can participate in the development of standards via the public review and comment process.

Speaker Bio

Terry L. Rodgers, CPE, CPMP, Vice President & National Leader Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL Terry has over 40 years of progressive experience in Critical Facilities operations and management including strategic planning, critical infrastructure design, operations, and commissioning; business protection and recovery; preventive and predictive maintenance; technical training and professional training development.

Terry is an ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer and a voting member of ASHRAE TC9.9 “Mission Critical Facilities, Data Centers, Technology Spaces, & Electronic Equipment”, ASHRAE SSPC 90.4 “Energy Standard for Data Centers”, ASHRAE SPC-127 “Method of Testing for Rating Computer Room Air Conditioners”, and GPC-1.6P “Commissioning Process for Data Centers”. He is on the Board of Directors of the 7×24 Exchange Carolinas Chapter and the Board of Directors of the Building Commissioning Association’s Southeast Region. He works with the Lawrence Livermore Nat’l Lab’s Energy EfficientHigh Performance Computing Working Group and the Open Compute Project and has authored or co-authored books, whitepapers, and presentations on Critical Facilities, facilities management, and formal commissioning. He has developed and taught multiple training classes in the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of critical facilities including commercial nuclear power plants, aerospace facilities, and large data centers. Terry has performed site reliability assessments for more than 70 sites in over 20 countries and 5 continents. Terry wrote a bi-monthly column in Mission Critical magazine called Sustainable Operations. Terry is currently the VP and National Leader for the Commissioning and Building Analytics business unit at Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL).