The ABP Panel Fan from this company is ideal for belt drive applications.

The 2013 version of ASHRAE’s residential indoor air quality standard has been published with one omission and one new requirement.

In which the author lays out the path from earlier data center design to a more recently discovered airflow challenge. Read on for his insights on how to keep positive differential pressure from being a negative for your facility’s energy budget.

A recently expanded Ventilation Products Brochure available from Tjernlund Products, Inc., includes highlight descriptions and specifications of 11 product groups of problem-solving ventilation equipment for residential and light commercial applications.

New Titus displacement ventilation software is designed to maximize energy efficiency and comfort.

REHAU’s ECOAIR™ ground-air heat exchange systems promote improvedIAQ.

So Charles Dickens, Ferris Bueller, a chicken, and a pig walk into an HVAC article … and try to sort out proper use of outdoor air in data centers. As you might imagine, it’s not simple. But if you remember these three design absolutes and consider your client’s specific perspective, the resulting efficiencies might have you singing Wayne Newton at the prospect of repeat business.

University of Chicago has combined an underground library with a domed reading room. Throw in a restoration room for work on rare and sensitive materials, and you have a three-tiered engineering challenge for ventilation, humidification, dehumidification, and filtration.

Public comment sought on a proposed additional default value for the IAQ standard.

Forget high-tech or high-expense fixes for a minute. Have you tried to bump efficiency by looking for the  next aisle over, deploying a Trim and Respond strategy, or trying the soon-to-be-famous Paper On A Stick approach? Some of the biggest names in the data center universe think that you plant the seeds of real savings with some mighty simple steps.