Richard Theron, product line manager, MSA Safety, defines edge computing, discusses its cost and usefulness, explores applicable applications, and more.

Beth Splittgerber, product manager for the small diesel product line, Kohler Power Systems, North America, introduces hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO), discusses its role in the company’s present and future, and much more. 

Ebru Arslan, global senior business development manager for renewables and energy storage for Honeywell Process Solutions, discusses the company’s latest battery energy storage services solutions. 

Alex Lee, vice president of channel business at Delta Electronics (Americas), discusses the company’s 50^th anniversary, its commitment to the RE100, its activity on the acquisition front, and more in the latest installment of the Blueprint.

The current ASHRAE president discusses the present and future of the world’s largest engineering association. 

Every successful project starts with a framework. A vision statement. A blueprint. The editors of Engineered Systems are proud to present The Blueprint — a monthly Q&A interview with HVACR engineering’s leading voices. 

Charlie Black, executive director of sales and marketing, Ruskin, discusses modern-day ventilation, the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the industry, what the company has cooking in research and development, and much more in the latest installment of the Blueprint.

Christian Weeks, CEO, enVerid, discusses the decarbonization movement, introduces us to the company’s “Clean First” approach, defines the effectiveness of sorbent filtration technologies, and much more in the latest installment of the Blueprint.

Tom Dowling, vice president of commercial business, METUS, introduces the industry to Hybrid VRF and discusses the codes and standards dictating its use as well as the market and the best applications it’s suited for in the latest installment of the Blueprint.

Kevin Herreman, principal acoustic scientist at Owens Corning, discusses the problems posed by industrial noise and shares some research on models to more accurately predict insertion loss in the latest installment of the Blueprint.