ACCA Member Now on ANSI-accredited ACCA Standards Task Team

Alexandria, VA – At a recent meeting, the Air Conditioning Contractors of America Educational Institute (ACCA-EI) Executive Committee appointed two new members to the ACCA Standards Task Team (STT).

The STT develops and maintains ACCA standards approved by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) as American National Standards. The following additions were made to the STT:

1. Jolene Methvin, director of RNC sales, Mechanical One LLC, Crystal River, FL (contractor category)
2. Lenny Diaddario, manager of contractor services, Copeland LLC (manufacturer category)

STT scope:

• The Air Conditioning Contractors of America Educational Institute (ACCA-EI) shall be the development of standards that support the indoor environment, commercial refrigeration applications, and energy efficiency.
• ACCA standards shall promote comfortable, safe, and energy-efficient buildings and refrigeration applications by addressing the proper design, installation, operation, maintenance, repair, and replacement of heating, ventilating, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVACR) equipment.
• Recognizing that building components and systems function interactively, such standards may include optimizing the whole building as a system.
• ACCA standards may (1) include requirements for safety, health and well-being, design, installation, maintenance, repair; and (2) may address optimum comfort, safe and efficient operation of buildings; and HVACR systems, and (3) may address performance, or operation, or qualification of personnel.

For additional background about ACCA’s ANSI standards program, the current standards under development, and the STT roster, please go to the following link: ANSI Process – ACCA.