This month’s issue of Engineered Systems is focusing on innovative hvac designs. It is a very ambitious venture to be innovative, and it is certainly worth noting when such a design achieves that goal.
Quite often, this pursuit to achieve a unique system performance or energy efficient benchmark will draw a design engineer straight to some computer software and/or equipment manufacturer’s performance data. They quickly begin to look at the “big picture” results without necessarily thinking through some engineering basics such as startup, commissioning, and maintainability, as well as controllability of this innovative system.