The Nueces Canyon Consolidated Independent School District (CISD) in Barksdale, Texas, completed more than $1 million in facility upgrades to improve building operations and comfort, while enabling the district to better control utility costs.
The Refrigeration Service Engineers Society will hold its 70th Annual Conference Sept. 11-15 in San Antonio, Texas. Open to RSES members and nonmembers, conference highlights will include educational sessions scheduled throughout and testing opportunities for Environmental Protection Agency Refrigerant Usage, Universal R-410A, and North American Technician Excellence.
Any discussion involving the hottest topics in HVAC today inevitably includes IAQ. One company sent a representative out to talk about IAQ issues with an audience of educators at the recent Air-Conditioning & Refrigeration Institute (ARI) Regional Workshop at Ferris State University.
How do you make sure that sophisticated new HVAC system, installed in a cutting edge new school, is well maintained? One way is to install it indoors, outside of the classroom. The other way is to cut down on the amount of routine maintenance it needs.
Having a broad knowledge of mechanical codes and the nuances of the code system is a key ingredient to proper system design. It is certainly a way to head off future problems when questions arise about a building’s HVAC system.
Too many times, “value engineering” is used as an excuse to cut corners and actually reduce the value of an HVAC project. That was not the case at the Kappa Kappa Gamma House at the University of Southern California (USC), where perhaps it ought to have been called value re-engineering - real fast.
Remember the picture with the 17 OSHA violations
that ran in the June 18 edition of The NEWS? In this article, the violations are given along with the
regulation numbers that address them.
As the 2010 deadline for the use of R-22 in new equipment comes closer, efforts are on the increase to put the topic on a need-to-know basis for contractors and technicians who work with the refrigerant. As part of that, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency a few months ago provided training for HVACR and plumbing instructors under the topic, “The 2010 HCFC-22 Phase Down.”
The Mechanical Contractors Association of America (MCAA) and the United Association of the Plumbing, Pipefitting and Sprinklerfitting Industry of the United States and Canada (UA) have partnered to focus on several joint green initiatives.
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