With more than 49,000 priceless objects and
artifacts in the Liberty Memorial Museum’s 30,000-square-foot exhibit space and
20,000-square-foot research center in Kansas City, the only thing there wasn’t
room for was error. And that included the chiller technology.
Over the past eight years, Duke University in Durham, N.C.,
has been modernizing its campus-wide HVAC systems for better comfort, more
efficiency and reduced maintenance costs.
Most complexes are fully occupied during
business hours and unoccupied in the evening and weekends.
Such situations have led the HVAC industry to variable-speed
chillers using screw compressors.
One of the first companies to develop such a product
was Carrier with its Evergreen® 23XRV variable-speed screw chiller.
As IBM Bromont continues to improve its energy efficiency, the ability to record added savings is becoming
increasingly more difficult and leading the facility to consider new
technologies. One of the technologies the company adopted combines a
Novanergy® thermal-energy-storage (TES) system and a YORK® variable-speed
chiller from Johnson Controls.
Carrier employees hosted groups of contractors,
engineers, distributors, dealers, and facility managers at Carrier’s Tyler
factory for four consecutive days of plant tours and product introductions. It
was the company’s first “Trek to Tyler” event since 2000.
A self-described “prairie voice” sees
refrigeration contractors and technicians as not having a lot of influence in
their industry, but still able to thrive because of their skills and ability to
adapt.
The Air Conditioning Contractors of America
(ACCA) has announced that its “HVAC Quality Installation Specification,” which
was developed with a broad coalition of industry stakeholders, has been
formally recognized by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) as a
national standard.
Haller Enterprises isn’t your typical mechanical
contracting firm. It has grown steadily and expanded into HVAC, plumbing, hydronics, and
electrical contracting. The contractor is using high-tech methods to educate
residential customers on the benefits of today’s higher-efficiency, high-end
systems and accessories.
If a technician is providing information about
maintenance agreements and other services that can be provided because their
intent is to provide the best
possible customer service, then a technician remains a technical professional
acting as a consultant for their customer.
All HVAC contractors have similar goals, including increasing revenues, reducing expenses, improving cash flow to fund growth, and improving employee retention and recruitment. According to some, all of these goals can be achieved by implementing one thing: fleet leasing.
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