HVAC Information Exchange Open for Public Comment

A new information exchange intended to ensure products, product assemblies, properties, and connections between pipes, ducts, and other HVAC equipment are represented properly in building information models is open for public review and comment.

Scott Arnold

Aug. 14, 2012

HVAC experts, architects, engineers, builders, specifiers, facility managers, manufacturers, and others involved with HVAC and the construction process are requested to provide input on HVAC information exchange (HVACie).

A group of experts from the United States and abroad, including representatives of ASHRAE, completed the technical documentation and examples for HVACie. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center Construction Engineering Research Laboratory published the draft document. Following a three-month national review, HVACie will be updated based on consensus feedback and submitted for possible inclusion in National BIM Standard-United States.

For more information on HVACie, click here. To review and comment, click here.

About the Author

Scott Arnold

Executive Editor

Described by a colleague as "a cyborg ... requir(ing) virtually no sleep, no time off, and bland nourishment that can be consumed while at his desk" who was sent "back from the future not to terminate anyone, but with the prime directive 'to edit dry technical copy' in order to save the world at a later date," Scott Arnold joined the editorial staff of HPAC Engineering in 1999. Prior to that, he worked as an editor for daily newspapers and a specialty-publications company. He has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Kent State University.