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NEBB's Cleanroom Performance Testing Certified Technician Training Seminar will take place in Fremont, CA, from May 20-24, 2013.

Designing a fire protection system for a critical facility application is a challenging engineering exercise, one which requires excellent knowledge and understanding of different fire suppression systems and fire alarm systems and their integration with the building fire alarm and building management systems (BMS).

LonMark® International has released LonMark Resource Files version 14.00, providing extensive new enhancements to the LonMark interoperability standards.

The Association for Demand Response & Smart Grid launched its second annual “Call for Creative.”

The Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA) is adding a new online course. "Design-Build Sustainability" assumes the student has a basic knowledge of the various project delivery methods and preferably has taken the Fundamentals of Project Delivery course offered by DBIA.

In today’s world, so-called “high-performance, sustainable” facilities are a dime a dozen. But many of these buildings rely on overly complex mechanical systems to carry out their mission.

The procurement process used by the U.S. government (or its contractor) can follow one of several different paths. Usually, an equipment specification is written that contains performance criteria and other requirements. A solicitation is then released and potential sellers competitively bid for the work.

My recent columns have been puzzling through the question of why owners are accepting unfinished construction projects as substantially complete.

The range of HVAC design options associated with the various types of data centers has expanded and evolved over the past 30 years in order to keep pace with the wide array of server transformations and deployment strategies.

October 29 was a Monday. It was also the day that Hurricane Sandy made landfall in New York City. Around 7 p.m., Con Edison shut power off in Lower Manhattan, and it would be sometime Saturday before lights would begin to flicker back on.