Ventilation and IAQ

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Editor’s Note: Every successful project starts with a framework. A vision statement. A blueprint.

Picking up from my last article, “Smoke Control Infrastructure Pitfalls” (December 2018), we will explore some context for real-world smoke control applications with a focus on using NFPA 92 as a resource for your smoke control rational analysis development in this article.

My firm recently completed the design of an off-campus student housing project. This project converted a 21-story, high-rise office building into an apartment-style student housing facility with one to five bedrooms per apartment.

ASHRAE has announced a call for papers for the IAQ 2020 conference, September 14-16, 2020, in Athens, Greece.

Pure Air Control Services Inc. has opened a new office in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.

This article describes the remodeling of a hospital kitchen in which workers experienced high temperature and humidity levels as well as turbulent airflows most of the year.

From my perspective of working in the intersection of two very different professions, medicine and design of the built environment, I’m frequently surprised by the resistance of each group to embrace concepts from the “other side.

Air Movement and Control Association (AMCA) International Inc. announced the revision of ANSI/AMCA Standard 205, Energy Efficiency Classification for Fans.

When Major League Soccer club the Real Salt Lake Monarchs embarked on building the largest pre-engineered, free-span facility in North America, a critical concern was efficiently heating the space during the cold Utah winter months.