Free: Advanced Energy Design Guides

ASHRAE and its partnering organizations have made the Advanced Energy Design Guides available as free PDFs. The guides encourage energy efficient design in a range of building types: K-12 schools, small office and retail buildings, small warehouses and self-storage buildings and highway lodging.
They are available at www.ashrae.org/freeaedg.
The guides help to educate the marketplace on how to build energy efficient buildings that use significantly less energy than those built to the minimum code requirements.

	K-12 School Buildings For elementary, middle, and high school buildings, which have a wide variety of heating and air-conditioning requirements. Options for daylighting, an important component in schools, are included.
	Small Office Buildings For office buildings up to 20,000 ft² the bulk of office space in the U.S.; and provides benefits and savings for the building owner while maintaining quality and functionality of the office space.
	Small Retail Buildings For retail buildings up to 20,000 ft², typical uses: retail; strip shopping centers; automobile dealers; building material, garden supply, and hardware stores; department stores; drugstores; equipment and home furnishing stores; liquor stores; and wholesale goods .
	Small Warehouses and Self-Storage Buildings For warehouses up to 50,000 ft² and self-storage buildings that use unitary heating and air-conditioning equipment, which represent a significant amount of commercial warehouse space in the U.S.
	Highway Lodging For typical hotels found along highways having up to 80 rooms, generally four stories or less, that use unitary heating and air-conditioning equipment, which represent a significant amount of commercial hotel space in the U.S.