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NFRC Documents Earn ANSI Designation

11/23/15

Greenbelt, Md.– The National Fenestration Rating Council (NFRC) may now announce that changes to ANSI/NFRC 100 that were approved by membership at the Spring 2015 Committee Week meeting earned the American National Standard (ANS) designation from the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).

ANSI/NFRC 100-2014[E0A1]: Procedure for Determining Fenestration Product U-factors
- (Non-members may access the documents via the NFRC website, Technical Documents page)
- A quick view of the changes that were submitted for public review and incorporated into the current version of the document may be found HERE.

NFRC members serving on task groups and subcommittees may continue to review and ballot the documents as necessary. Proposed changes will be held reserved until the next document cycle and public review in January 2017.

The new designation will be announced in an upcoming issue of ANSI’s Standards Action.

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