Engineered Systems magazine’s August 2019 issue examines the sustainable strategies behind a successful health care design, how to achieve variable condenser flow using VFDs, tips to help engineers prepare for the unexpected, an overview of NFPA 99, and much more.
A high-performance health care facility incorporates sustainable strategies from the ground up, from wall to wall, from floor to ceiling, and across the operational enterprise.
The 2016 Sustainability Benchmark Report released by GreenHealth showed that sustainability is rapidly becoming a design requirement of most health care organizations.
Variable frequency drives (VFDs), also known as variable speed drives (VSDs), are used to modulate the speed of motors in various applications, from hydronic water pumping to VAV fan units to vacuum systems.
Picking up from my last article in the June 2019 issue, I will explore some context for real-world life safety applications. In this article, I’ll focus on complying with NFPA 99 (Section references to 2018 ed.) and its referenced standards as resources for your health care facilities’ HVAC designs.
A devastating event doesn’t always originate from a natural disaster. At any moment during construction or operation, something could go wrong — and it will.
This month’s Facility File will focus on the Back2Basics test on a hospital capital project to furnish and install a combined heat and power (CHP) co-generator of electricity and use of engine coolant heat rejection directed to the facility’s new pre-heat domestic hot water storage tank.
During ASHRAE’s June 2019 annual meeting in Kansas City, I became optimistic that the society is truly expanding its horizons to include occupant health as an important building performance metric.
In my July 2019 column, I mentioned that this month I’d be talking about a technology that could help you to create a reoccurring line of revenue in your consulting and engineering business.
Despite being led by a brainless, heartless, and gutless entourage, one may presume that Dorothy could have eventually stumbled her way to the Wizard of Oz’s doorstep with or without the assistance of the yellow brick road.
Since the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) first opened its doors in 1883, the school has grown to employ more than 3,000 professors, enroll 51,000 students, and has garnered an impressive global reputation.
Xcel Energy, an electrical energy provider in Colorado, was in need of refrigerant monitoring updates for its chilled water building in downtown Denver.
Fresh Venture Foods (FVF), a joint venture between Babe Farms and Gold Coast Packaging, provides processing, packing, and shipping of fresh food in Santa Maria, California.