The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) on downtown Los Angeles’ Grand Avenue required extensive mechanical upgrades to preserve its collection, maintain visitor comfort, and gain tighter control of humidification levels.

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Balancing relative humidity plays a key role in not only comfort but the health of occupants.

The provision of adequate ventilation is an essential factor in maintaining patient wellbeing in a health care setting; therefore, maintaining acceptable IAQ has become a huge challenge for health care facilities.

Size and configuration are important, but don’t overlook other key factors that can help provide the best return on investment and total cost of ownership over the life of the system.

After reading my September column about using the heart as a guide for energy efficient HVAC design, a forward-thinking ES reader asked about using the respiratory system to think about air handling strategies.

The Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, TN is a 77,000-sq-ft facility perched on an 80-ft bluff overlooking the beautiful Tennessee River.

With nine terminals totaling several million square feet of floor space, Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is one of world’s busiest airports.

While they sometimes fall under the radar, these small systems can provide big gains.