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Setting a New Standard in Sustainable Building Design

The 200,000-square-foot Credit Human Federal Credit Union project aims to establish new benchmarks for efficiency, comfort, and sustainability.
February 3, 2023
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The 200,000-square-foot Credit Human Federal Credit Union project aims to establish new benchmarks for efficiency, comfort, and sustainability.


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What a Long, Strange Trip it’s Been

While not as warm as South Beach, it’s time to take my talents to a new locale.
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Herb Woerpel
February 1, 2023
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While not as warm as South Beach, it’s time to take my talents to a new locale.


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Design Engineering: Practice What You Preach

The design and construction teams cannot continue to wear blinders when drafting the owner’s project requirements, construction budget, and job’s timeline.
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Howard McKew, P.E., C.P.E.
January 31, 2023
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The design and construction teams cannot continue to wear blinders when drafting the owner’s project requirements, construction budget, and job’s timeline.


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New Arena Boiler Plant Using Design-Build Project Delivery

The final boiler system selection is based on methods to furnish and install heat systems to serve a new 150,000-seat arena in an existing office park.
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Howard McKew, P.E., C.P.E.
January 30, 2023
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The final boiler system selection is based on methods to furnish and install heat systems to serve a new 150,000-seat arena in an existing office park.


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Bryan Cordill

The Blueprint: Propane Education & Research Council’s Bryan Cordill

Bryan Cordill, director of residential and commercial business development, PERC, provides an update on the state of the propane industry, offers his insight on inflation, and much more.
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Herb Woerpel
January 16, 2023
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Bryan Cordill, director of residential and commercial business development, PERC, provides an update on the state of the propane industry, offers his insight on inflation, and much more.


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The Advantages of Using Haystack

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James Regan
January 13, 2023
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Haystack, at its core, is an attempt to standardize the way a point is identified and categorized.


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Looking Back to Look Forward

My first 'Energy Engineering' column was published in Engineered Systems in January 1992.
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Howard McKew, P.E., C.P.E.
January 12, 2023
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My first 'Energy Engineering' column was published in Engineered Systems in January 1992.


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Evaporation’s role on human health

IAQ Without Proper Humidity Will Not Support Occupant Health

Do we even know what ‘doing the right thing’ is anymore?
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Stephanie Taylor, M.D., M. Arch, CIC
January 11, 2023
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Do we even know what ‘doing the right thing’ is anymore?


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Commissioning Lead/Lag Pumping Operations: Part I, Identifying a Designer’s Intent

If a system was designed to operate in lead/lag, but lead/standby was implemented, it would not be able meet the flow requirements during the highest load periods.
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Miles Ryan P.E.
January 9, 2023
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If a system was designed to operate in lead/lag, but lead/standby was implemented, it would not be able meet the flow requirements during the highest load periods.


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Conference Center Filter Upgrades Using Performance Contracting Project Delivery

An IAQ audit of the existing central air systems will access multiple space temperature, humidity, particle count samples, and other data.
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Howard McKew, P.E., C.P.E.
December 28, 2022
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An IAQ audit of the existing central air systems will access multiple space temperature, humidity, particle count samples, and other data.


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