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ANSI Approves ACCA Manual S.

The Air Conditioning Contractors of America (ACCA) recently announced that the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has approved ACCA's Manual S as a national standard.

Manual S, which is part of ACCA's series of design and installation

guides for residential heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, covers the selection of heating and cooling equipment.

ANSI previously approved ACCA's Manual D ("Residential Duct Design") and Manual J ("Residential Load Calculation, 8th Edition").

Contact: Lucia Lodato, ACCA, phone 703-824-8854, website http://www.acca.org.

(EIN STAFF: 8/23)

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