The Certification Study Guide: Certified HVAC Designer (CHD) leverages instructional design best practices to ensure effective learning and drive desired outcomes. An ASHRAE Foundation Board of Trustees supported project, this Study Guide provides a framework and tools to help HVAC Designers create a customized, self-paced study plan to improve their knowledge, skills and abilities in key HVAC design job tasks, and achieve success on the CHD certification exam.

ASHRAE offers numerous resources in HVAC design. Importantly, this Study Guide will help HVAC designers target which elements of which resources will be most beneficial to them based on their own professional development needs.

While the 100-question CHD Practice Exam alone is invaluable, the following unique tools ensure the Certification Study Guide: Certified HVAC Designer (CHD) will be a springboard to helping HVAC designers create a targeted, customized study plan to achieve their professional development goals:- Quick Quizzes
- Task-by-task self-assessments linked to resources
- Core and “deep dive” resource break-down
- 100-question CHD Practice Exam
- Customizable Study Map
- List of common HVAC design formulas
- Glossary of key terms