Last month, I described how the air and water testing, adjusting, and balancing (TAB) contractor is brought into a typical construction project. 

The NEBB Procedural Standard Ninth Edition-2019 for Testing Adjusting and Balancing (TAB) of Environmental Systems (Procedural Standard) is now available.

The National Environmental Balancing Bureau (NEBB) is currently seeking speaker abstracts for the organization’s annual conference in Greenbrier, West Virginia, April 2-4, 2020.

This month’s Facility File will focus on the B2B May test for an existing datacom room located within a 50,000-square-foot medical records office building.

This month’s Facility File will focus on the B2B April test for a K-8 school temporary heating project in sync with a utility rebate to furnish and install a new 120 boiler horsepower (BHP) condensing boiler application.

This month’s Facility File focuses on the March Back2Basics retrofit of a campus-wide hot water boiler system covering 40 buildings with primary-, secondary-, and tertiary-pumping based on a performance lease agreement to retro-commission the system with a guaranteed operating savings. The university will hire an owner representative to work with a design-build-operate-maintain performance contractor (PC).

Somerville, Massachusetts-based Carbone Associates LLC is offering professional development courses starting March 18.

The NEBB board of directors has chosen Donald Hill, NEBB CP, as the 2017-2018 NEBB president.

The National Environmental Balancing Bureau is seeking speaker abstracts for its 2018 annual conference, April 26-28.

Years after an HVAC engineer starts to design closed-loop water systems and then progressively moves up the ladder of engineering success, he can forget and/or overlook many of the issues, concerns, details, opportunities, etc. associated with engineering these systems.