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CODES AND STANDARDS
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Is your industry burdened by regulations? GARD Analytics can help you. Our team of engineers and researchers can help by providing timely information and technical analysis of the codes, standards, rules and regulations that affect your product or industry. We are not lawyers or lobbyists; instead we examine the technical basis of codes and standards searching for inaccurate assumptions, gaps of information, or flawed technical arguments. Providing better information to those who set the rules is often the most cost effective method of ensuring your interests are met.
GARD Analytics has been providing these types of services for industries in the heating, ventilation and air conditioning industry for many years.

Information

Are you a decision maker in your industry? GARD Analytics will provide the information you need concerning where relevant codes and standards are now and where they are headed. Most codes and standards have implications for many industries—filtering out what is important to yours can turn a huge pile of documents into the targeted information you need to make decisions. In addition, GARD Analytics becomes a valuable resource that you can use to answer questions quickly.

For many years GARD Analytics has been tracking and participating in the development of several national energy standards and assessing their impact on national energy use and sales of heating and cooling equipment for several clients. These standards include:

ASHRAE Standard 90.1 Energy Standard for Buildings except Low-Rise Residential Buildings
ASHRAE Standard 90.2 Energy-Efficient Design of New Low-Rise Residential Buildings
ASHRAE Standard 62.1 Ventilation for Acceptable Indoor Air Quality
ASHRAE Standard 62.2 Ventilation and Acceptable Indoor Air Quality in Low-Rise Residential Buildings
ICC International Energy Conservation Code

GARD staff members are voting members of the ASHRAE Standards Committees 90.1, 62.1 and 62.2 and directly participate in all full committee and subcommittee meetings where standards criteria are being revised and upgraded to meet more stringent energy efficiency levels. For several clients, GARD has performed extensive analyses to assess the energy savings that would result if a standard was adopted on a national or regional basis for all new construction. GARD also prepares code change proposals for submission and consideration by code development groups as part of the code review and upgrading process.

Analysis and Support

Are codes and regulations fair to your industry? We examine the technical basis for the codes and provide our own analysis with credible data and sound reasoning. Industries which do not provide information and analysis to the committees or governing bodies that set the standards are the same industries that appear to be treated unfairly.

Just recently, GARD performed an evaluation of the new Minnesota Energy Code, which is recognized as being one of the most stringent energy codes in the U.S. for residential new construction, and evaluated its impact on residential combustion space heating and water heating equipment.

Do not make a mistake and ignore the codes, standards and rules and regulations which affect your products. Have GARD Analytics provide intelligence which can keep you on top in your competitive arena.

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