Articles by Howard McKew, P.E., C.P.E.

Over the next three months I’ll be taking you on a walking tour.

Keeping in touch with customers means keeping their needs in mind.

While the technical aspects are important, a focus on soft skills can go a long way.

This month’s B2B will focus on a 1,000-kW cogeneration unit with hot water energy recovery to a domestic hot water and process heating system on an existing health care campus. The pre-packaged cogeneration unit shall be located directly outside the central plant electrical room and connected to the existing electrical system.

There was a time when HVAC consulting engineering firms had a stand-alone HVAC department with a registered professional engineer as the department head.

Make sure the women in your company have equal pay for equal work.

The smart way to take details, sequences, and checklists into the future today.

This month, we continue our discussion on simplifying system specifications.

Quite often, design engineers choose decentralized HVAC systems because of first-cost benefit, packaged equipment, simplicity of design, and the repetitiveness of the installation, to mention just a few of the features.

A set of inspection guidelines can go a long way in eliminating HAIs.