HVAC Engineering Sectors - Articles - Page 240

The Environmental and Financial Advantages of Variable-Speed Compressors

October 22, 2019

Positively impacting the environment shouldn’t negatively impact your bottom line, thus doing good needs to also be good for business.

Ross & Baruzzini Acquires Genesis Planning

October 22, 2019

Genesis Planning is a Texas-based medical equipment planning and consulting firm.

Dewberry Names Brandon Whelan Electrical Infrastructure Department Manager

October 21, 2019

The experienced power systems engineer will work out of the firm’s Raleigh, North Carolina, office.

Debunking Myths of Active Chilled Beams: What You Thought You Knew But Were Wrong, Part 1

How long does it take for condensation to form on an active chilled beam? A group of engineers at SmithGroup used testing and analysis to answer that question and more.

Dan Hahne Eric Martin

Fletcher J. Clarcq P.E., CEM, LEED AP BD+C Steve Lamica

October 21, 2019

Chilled beams offer building owners greater energy efficiency, reduced building first cost, reduced day-two maintenance, and improved indoor air quality.

Facility Files: Air-Cooled Chiller Retrofit at a Mid-Sized Hospital

Winter Chiller Alternative Project Using Integrated Project Delivery

Amanda Parolise

October 18, 2019

This month’s Facility File focuses on retrofitting a hospital’s patient floor with the addition of one fan-powered HEPA filter unit per patient room on a 30-patient room floor. The Facility File will focus on the B2B September test to improve the room air-purification environment and to trap particles that are 0.3 microns or larger.

AHRI, Alliance Member Companies Urge Congress to Act on HFCs

October 16, 2019

The authors urged for proposed federal legislation to establish a national structure for the phasedown of hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerants.

MELIPC Line of Industrial PCs for Edge Computing – Mitsubishi Electric Automation Inc.

October 15, 2019

MELIPC is designed to enable Internet of Things (IoT) on factory floors that have not been introduced to it yet, or improve it where it is already enabled.

Inject a Pulse Into Your Building Monitoring System

If we added living tissue models to existing building monitoring systems, we could potentially save many years of human suffering, lost lives, and health care dollars.

Stephanie Taylor, M.D., M. Arch, CIC

October 14, 2019

We are in a new era — a time of increased realization that the indoor environment has a powerful influence on human health.