Facility and IT Integration
As energy costs continue to increase in this challenging economic environment, so does the responsibility of building owners and managers to address energy...
Energy-Management Systems
An energy-management system (EMS) is used to control energy-consuming equipment, primarily that related to HVAC and lighting control. Ensuring that these...
The Outlook for BACnet
The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Standing Standard Project Committee (SSPC) 135 met in Atlanta on...
Better Management Through Technology
A best practice for managing the installation and integration of complex systems is emerging. Known as technology contracting, it involves assigning a...
Proper Placement of Pressure Transmitters
In air- and water-distribution systems employing variable-frequency drives and utilizing closed-loop control with pressure feedback for fans and pumps,...
Greater Efficiency Through Energy Audits
Hotels seeking to improve their energy profiles seem to fall into several broad categories: Low- to mid-rise facilities, often one-design hotels, with...
Intelligent Middleware Infrastructure Aids Automated Demand Response
Consisting of seven buildings totaling 1 million sq ft, including data-center, office, and laboratory space, the corporate headquarters of NetApp, a provider of storage and data-management solutions, in Sunnyvale, Calif., has an annual utility bill of $7.7 million, 89 percent of which goes for electricity....
System Provides Centralized Control of Cleveland Office-Tower Complex
Consisting of one 18-story building and two five-story buildings connected by a glass atrium, North Point Towers in Cleveland is home to insurance companies,...
BAS/CONTROLS
Rooftop-unit controllers RTU-MP is a factory-installed direct-digital-control, multiprotocol controller available on Carrier's Weather Series small rooftop...
Converging BAS With IT Architecture
Building-automation systems (BAS) have made strides toward embracing connectivity and interoperability standards in recent years. These efforts have given...
DDC Energy-Management System Controls Plant's New Rooftop Units
In 2005, the HVAC equipment serving its 60,000-sq-ft facility in Plainville, Conn., outdated and in disrepair, Gems Sensors & Controls formulated a plan...
Wireless: The Evolution of Building Control
We all have them Blackberries, laptops, maybe even a Bluetooth-enabled global-positioning system for a car. Wireless technology has become a pervasive...
Speaking the Same Language
The demand for building performance and efficiency is increasing. As a result, projects are becoming more complex, and newer buildings have more automated...
Just What the Doctor Ordered: Fully Integrated Control System
In 2006, Ministry Health Care and Marshfield Clinic joined forces to build the $92.5 million Weston Regional Medical Center in Weston, Wis. The 56-acre...
Facility's Upgrades Keep Product Fresh
The Anheuser-Busch sales and distribution center in San Angelo, Texas, is part of one of the largest beer wholesalers in the United States. In one year,...
The Disney Approach to Energy-Management Systems
Although maintaining a competitive procurement process with only one energy-management-system (EMS) vendor may sound impossible, Walt Disney Parks and...
Veracruz Exhibit Hall
With more than 1,900 guest rooms and 220,000 sq ft of meeting and exhibit space, Coronado Springs Resort at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla., is among...
The Joy of Writing Control Sequences
A well-thought-out, detailed operating sequence can make a building and its systems sing, while a bad one can turn even the highest-quality equipment...
BAS Service Contract Helps Chemical Maker Save on HVAC Operation and Maintenance
Dissatisfied with the costs of maintaining equipment and controls at its corporate headquarters in Memphis, Tenn., Buckman Laboratories International Inc., a manufacturer of specialty chemicals used in the pulp-and-paper, water-treatment, leather, coatings-and-plastics, wood, and agriculture industries, invited Johnson Controls Inc. to submit a proposal for maintenance of its building-automation system. The resulting service contract will save Buckman approximately 18 percent in HVAC operation and maintenance costs, protect assets, and provide a path to migration to newer technologies....
New Developments in BACnet Integration
When the Building Automation Control Network (BACnet) committee was formed in 1987, its members had a vision of integrating all elements of building automation...
Best Practices in BAS/Controls
In an effort to reward best practices in the design and ownership of building-automation systems and controls, HPAC Engineering is proud to present, for...
New Equipment & Resources
Communications module The SlotServer ControlLogix BAS communications interface is a flexible communications module that can be configured to communicate...
Networked Controls Leadership AWARDS
Last November, in the 2006 edition of its annual Networked Controls supplement, HPAC Engineering announced the creation of the Networked Controls Leadership...
With Ethernet Switches, New BAS Helps Keep Efficiency Under Control
In an effort to reduce energy, facilities-maintenance, and personnel costs, a plan to upgrade a 500,000-sq-ft building in downtown Chicago was implemented. A return on the investment was achieved by installing a dedicated building-automation network using Contemporary Controls’ industrial-grade Skorpion Ethernet switches, eliminating the structure’s hard-to-maintain, outdated direct digital-control system....
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