ASHRAE, a global nonprofit membership organization with more than 57,000 members in more than 130 countries worldwide, has been leading the engineering and development of facility standards and guidelines for 120-plus years. It is an ANSI-accredited standards development organization (SDO), and some ASHRAE standards get adopted into building codes, such as ANSI/ASHRAE standard 90.1, Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings.
ASHRAE has been actively supporting the mission critical industry for decades in various ways through its technical committees; research efforts; books, white papers, and presentations; and standards and guidelines.