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David Allen, principal and executive vice president of McKinstry, will be the keynote speaker at the 2015 annual National Conference on Building Commissioning in St. Louis.

Jensen Hughes and Randal Brown & Associates (RBA) Engineering in Toronto have reached a merger agreement.

Langendorf Supply Co., a distributor and supplier of HVAC equipment throughout the Midwest, decided it was time to investigate how to make its own space more energy-efficient.

Critical facility HVAC and indoor air management is not all alike! In doing my homework for writing this column on critical facilities, I have been struck by the precision of IAQ monitoring in data centers.

On average, Americans keep their smartphones for two years before trading up to the latest model.

This month, I am continuing my recent exploration of situations where building systems do not pass their commissioning functional performance tests at the end of construction.

There was a time when energy efficiency was not a criterion for designing critical environments.

The ability of engine-powered generators to start and supply standby power of acceptable frequency and voltage within 10 seconds of a utility outage has made these generators the standby power system of choice for a wide variety of facilities including mission critical.

To this day, the greatest surprise of my life occurred when I was a young student at Berkeley Junior High. At the year-end assembly, unexpectedly, I heard my name called as they announced the recipient of the Seventh Grade Citizenship Award.

Over time, many if not all employees eventually become comfortable in their work environment. I don’t think this can be helped, be-cause with routine comes contentment.