United Technologies Corp. (UTC) and the Appliance Standards Awareness Project (ASAP) praised the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for finalizing new methods for rating and certifying commercial air conditioning, heating, water heating, and refrigeration equipment.
Bosch Termotecnologia S.A.’s Aveiro plant, 70 kilometers south of Porto in the northwest region of Portugal, passed the 20 million mark in production of gas-fired water heaters this past fall.
ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 55-2013, “Thermal Environmental Conditions for Human Occupancy,” combines the 2010 standard and 18 published addenda into a consolidated standard.