This month’s Facility File will focus on the B2B December test for the energy retrofit of a commercial office building hot water heating system conversion from a utility company steam system to a new, high-efficiency condensing boiler system.

Editor’s Note: Every successful project starts with a framework. A vision statement. A blueprint.

This month’s B2B will focus on an 800,000-square-foot existing in-patient health care facility committed to recommissioning its boiler room operation and maintenance management to maintain a highly performing, safe boiler plant environment.

Over the next three months I’ll be taking you on a walking tour.

For new installations and annual maintenance, the combustion analyzer has become a critical tool for HVAC professionals. Used for both furnaces and boilers, the basic hand-held device measures carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, oxygen, and stack temperature.

This month’s Facility File will focus on a new central, high-efficient, hot water boiler plant to replace an antiquated remote high-pressure steam boiler plant serving a campus setting.

Retrofitting a commercial HVAC system to accommodate an existing building can be challenging.

This month’s Facility File is based on a 1,000-kW cogeneration unit with hot water energy recovery to an existing health care campus process heating system and the domestic hot water heating system that serves this health care campus.

Properly caring for a boiler pressure vessel and its associated refractories is important to ensure the longevity and reliability of the system.