The ACCA Educational Institute Standards Task Team announced that ANSI
has recognized ACCA 12 QH-2011 Existing Homes Evaluation and Performance
Improvement standard.
The
Air Conditioning Contractors of America Educational Institute Standards Task
Team announced that the American National Standards Institute (
ANSI) has recognized ACCA 12
QH-2011 Existing Homes Evaluation and Performance Improvement standard.
ACCA
12 QH-2011 was developed by ACCA in the cooperation with the Residential Energy
Services Network (
RESNET) and is the first industry-developed nationally recognized
standard that establishes how to audit, evaluate, develop a scope of work,
perform the work approved by a home owner and test completed work.
“ACCA
is proud to offer the home performance community with the first standard for
existing homes that is in line with our other ANSI recognized standards,"
said
Paul T. Stalknecht, ACCA president and CEO. "This
new standard provides clear guidelines for how to properly evaluate homes,
provide homeowners with appropriate solutions, and then perform the work. And,
by requiring third-party verification to ensure that the work was performed
correctly, gives more credibility to the contractors who are following the
standard and sets them apart.”
“We
were happy to work with ACCA to create this standard for existing homes,” says
Steve
Baden, executive director of RESNET. “RESNET will use the standard as
the foundation for its Energy Smart Contractor designation. Having an ANSI
standard for existing homes will make the entire industry stronger as a whole.”
The
ACCA 12 QH-2011 Existing Homes Evaluation and Performance Improvement is
available for download at
www.acca.org/quality and will be available for purchase soon.
Source:
ACCALinks
