Gary L. Berlin is president of Humidity Consulting LLC and a member of ASHRAE 62-1, SPC-164.1, SPC-164.2, SPC-164.3, TC-5.11. He was a member of the AHRI Humidifier Section from 1972 until 2012. He has also been a long term contributor to the U/L and CSA humidifier standards program. Berlin has over 48 years of experience in the design, installation, sales, and marketing of humidification systems. He is also a well known industry lecturer on humidity and humidifier design and applications.
The research is consistent over the years, and the cost of low humidity continues to rise. Even our increasingly computer-oriented lifestyle exacerbates the problem.
Industry leaders realized hundreds of years ago that their processes and machines operate best when the indoor relative humidity is maintained at an optimum level for their process
