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It’s not a new technology, but it’s more popular than ever. While VRF is providing engineers and building owners with a financial payback, the benefits go beyond energy efficiency. 

This month, I want to address an issue which is as old as building systems commissioning itself. It was one of the first challenges commissioning professionals endeavored to resolve in order to more effectively and efficiently facilitate the commissioning process … and yet it still lingers. 

Generally, when we think about BAS, it is in the context of large commercial buildings, those well over 25,000 sq ft. According to the latest government data though (from the 2012 Commercial Building Energy Consumption Survey), 88% of all commercial buildings are 25,000 sq ft or less.

Keep your innovative drive running throughout the new year.

A master checklist can keep occupants safe and healthy.  

OK, before we get to that, I have some great news to pass along for readers who work with backup generators and the like. 

The sport of curling is a strategic game like chess, with an element of skill and experience. Played on ice in an indoor controlled environment, temperature and humidity are critical to setting ice speed and the amount of “curl” the stone will incur.

ASHRAE’s LowDown Showdown will be a part of the ASHRAE and IBPSA-USA SimBuild 2016 Conference, Aug. 10-12, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The USGBC has released its annual “Top 10 States for LEED,” and Illinois has once again come out on top.

A new web application from ASHRAE automates the calculations needed to show a building project’s compliance with Standard 90.1-2010.