The Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI) hosted more than 120 heating and cooling experts and sustainability leaders at its AHRI Talks India event on June 5 in Hyderabad, Telangana. The meeting focused on HVAC equipment testing, standards and certification, including their role in performance assurance for regulators and consulting engineers.
AHRI released The AHRI Approach to Air Handling Unit Certification: A Technical Performance Verification and Specification Guide for MEP Engineers. The publication provides consultants and specifiers with information on AHU performance verification methodologies and the role of extensive and whole-map component certification in real-world application efficiency.
Dalip Singh, AHRI Senior Technical Analyst, presented AHRI’s application-specific and whole-map certification approach. He emphasized testing AHUs as they are built to support real-world performance, energy efficiency and specification confidence.
Nabil Shahin, AHRI Managing Director for the MENA region, discussed data center cooling trends and AHRI’s related standards and certification program. He said AHRI is updating existing standards and evaluating new programs as technologies including liquid cooling emerge.
Speakers also addressed equipment performance verification, green building certification and resource-efficient buildings. Experts from Genex Consultants and Aurigene Pharma reviewed the benefits of performance standards and verified equipment for building owners and end users, while S Karthikeyan of IGBC discussed green building certification in India.
“AHRI is proud to offer globally-recognized industry standards and certification programs here in India, and to see the tremendous interest in our efforts, which are focused around meeting the unique needs of this region,” said Dalip Singh, AHRI Senior Technical Analyst.
