My firm recently completed the design of an off-campus student housing project. This project converted a 21-story, high-rise office building into an apartment-style student housing facility with one to five bedrooms per apartment.

When designing a kitchen ventilation system, there are a number of factors that should be considered, such as project budget, building layout, surrounding buildings, system maintenance, operational cost, fire risk from grease buildup, and more.

Restaurants and commercial kitchens are notoriously one of the largest consumers of energy per unit of floor area. Moreover, the kitchen ventilation system is often the largest energy-consuming component in a food service facility.

In the 1970s VAV (Variable Air Volume) systems replaced CAV (Constant Air Volume) systems. Concurrently, the 8-bit microprocessor with 4500 transistors was introduced. In the field of commercial HVAC systems, VAV systems became the first choice and were used as baselines for energy standards.

The Air Movement and Control Association (AMCA) International has revised ANSI/AMCA Standard 500-D, Laboratory Methods of Testing Dampers for Rating.

Skip Diamond has joined Mestek as the new technical resources manager for the Sterling HVAC, SpacePak, and Koldwave brands.

Imagine this scenario: You decide to buy a car for your family. Deciding on a certain model, you carefully read the safety specifications.

Samsung has launched a ventilation product line, Fresh Access™, designed to bring fresh air into commercial buildings.

Fresh-Aire UV has purchased a 25,000-square-foot facility on a three-acre site in Jupiter, Florida.

Examining the similarities between evaporative cooling equipment and human skin.