Built in 1983, One Logan Square is a 32-story office tower in Center City Philadelphia. The building was recently renovated, and the last remaining need was replacement of the original cooling tower.

Facilitating such mechanical upgrades, one must focus on all factors, including identifying critical loads, electrical system sizing, load shedding, and more.

A. O. Smith introduced the Product Preservers™ Powered Anode System. The new anodes, which are designed to provide maintenance-free protection for all water types, are available as an upgrade to replace the sacrificial anodes that come as industry standard equipment on tank-style heaters.

The YORK® Mission Critical Direct Evaporative Cooling (DEC) AHUs from Johnson Controls are designed to meet the specific needs for data centers. The units are offered in two sizes (250 kW and 500 kW) and in perimeter and rooftop configurations.

State Water Heaters has launched the new iCOMM Connectivity Platform. The platform is available via the State Water Heaters app on iOS- and Android-ready mobile devices. All State ULTRA FORCE® SUF® models now come standard with onboard Wi-Fi, which allows for remotely connecting and interacting with ULTRA FORCE water heaters.

SPX Cooling Technologies Inc. has expanded its Marley MD line of factory-assembled counterflow cooling towers. New to the MD line are models with exclusive anti-fouling, low-clog film fill types, which the company says provides a higher degree of resistance for dirty water applications and expands the suitability of the Marley MD for process cooling and heavy industrial uses.

Noritz has expanded its line of combination boilers with the new Noritz Residential Combination Boiler (NRCB), which the company says allows for simultaneous residential domestic hot water and space heating and performs at a 95% AFUE.

Automated Logic Corporation (ALC) has expanded its suite of optimization solutions for the WebCTRL® building automation system to include a new chilled water system optimizer. The new WebCTRL chilled water system optimizer minimizes the energy use of the entire chilled water system in a commercial building, including AHUs, fan coils, and other chilled water distribution equipment.

Lochinvar LLC has released the NOBLE™ Fire Tube Combi Boiler. With three models ranging from 110,000 to 199,999 Btuh, the company says the Noble boiler offers easy installation and serviceability, true instantaneous response time, and a user-friendly interface. In addition to 10:1 turndown and 95% Annual Fuel Utilization Efficiency (AFUE), the Noble Fire Tube Combi Boiler is designed, engineered, and assembled in the USA.