After selecting or investing in high-efficiency equipment, the last thing you want to do is give that savings away. Careful attention to sizing and piping can keep your system configured for success. Does Humidification In Office IDF Rooms Still Warrant Concern? Some variables in this environment are reducing the need for added humidity, while others are reducing the need to worry over the moisture you do add. Read more stories in January Issue 2018.
After selecting or investing in high-efficiency equipment, the last thing you want to do is give that savings away. Careful attention to sizing and piping can keep your system configured for success.
Owners, engineers, and contractors are increasingly understanding the advantages of designing new hydronic heating plants using high-efficiency condensing boilers.
You may be underestimating how many energy-saving steps you can take right now for that data center, no approvals required. And why are so many people still in there, anyway?
After 20 years in data centers, you might think I hang out on the bleeding edge with liquid-cooled chips, servers immersed in mineral oil, and computers singing “Daisy Bell” in three-part harmony.
Complex space/pressure relationships, grease management issues, and outside consultants represent just part of the recipe that the mechanical engineer must master.
Commercial kitchen ventilation (CKV) has been a challenge to mechanical engineers for years. Part of the challenge comes from the fact that the mechanical engineer is normally not the “kitchen consultant.
In the commissioning specification, the owner made the general contractor responsible for the cost of retesting required due to deficiencies discovered during initial functional performance testing.
In May 2017, this column addressed additions to existing BAS. It recommended that most building owners should sole-source these projects using the base-building’s BAS manufacturer.
This month’s B2B will focus on a new 12-story patient tower located at a health care campus. This month’s test will address the design intent of an engineered zoned smoke control of return air, supply air, and exhaust air system serving the patient floor common corridors.
What is the value of a healthy and productive human being in a building? If you go to work with a cold, work slowly, and perhaps infect your co-worker, how much money has your employer lost? What are the unseen influences of your office building, hospital room, classroom or home on your health and performance?
For the past 20 years, the Wilkes County Courthouse in Wilkesboro, NC, has depended on its chiller system. The courthouse had been reliably cooled with a Daikin ALS170A screw compressor chiller, but the unit was beginning to show signs of aging.
“Insulation systems appear to be simple, but doing them correctly can be complex,” says John Puskar, president of Prescient Technical Services and an expert on codes and standards related to piping, furnaces, and boilers.