October 1, 2009
Articles
Last week was all about firsts. It was the first presentation of HVACR Week, a live seminar and trade-show event combining three meetings: the Engineering...
Central utility plants While Carl C. Schultz, PE, LEED AP, makes a number of very good and valid points in his two-part Engineering Green Buildings column...
Across the United States, owners are looking to have their existing buildings certified under the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System without bankrupting their operation-and-maintenance budgets. The only way for them reach that goal is to meet the requirements of LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance (O&M) 2009. ...
Air Movement and Control Association (AMCA) International Inc....
As health and school officials deal with a second wave of the H1N1 virus (swine flu), new information on health consequences of exposure to airborne infectious diseases and implications for the design, installation, and operation of HVACR systems is available from the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)....
HPAC Engineering Advisor Establishes New Firm Longtime HPAC Engineering Editorial Advisory Board member Gerald J. Williams, PE, LEED AP, is co-founder...
ASHRAE The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) recently announced that Addendum r to ANSI/ASHRAE Standard...
Building monitoring system The USE Manager 6.0 monitoring system features fully integrated real-time status and enables building control via the Web,...
Airborne-diseases document ASHRAE has released a position document on the health consequences of exposure to airborne infectious diseases and the implications...
Editor's note: The following article was adapted from the paper “Busting the Myth That Green Costs More Green,” presented during HPAC Engineering's sixth annual Engineering Green Buildings Conference and Expo, held Sept. 24 and 25 in Nashville, Tenn....
Much has been written about controlling the minimum-outside-air quantity in variable-air-volume (VAV) air-handling systems. However, instead of debating the merits of various control methods, this article will discuss how to apply the mixed-air-plenum pressure method and why it works. ...
Like all materials, pipe experiences dimensional changes as a result of changes in temperature, expanding when heated and contracting when cooled. The key to accommodating thermal expansion and contraction in a piping system is to allow predictable and controlled piping-system movement....
The Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami is committed to becoming one of the country's leading bioscience research institutions. It also...
Boiler-system efficiency is one of the most documented and published topics for plant engineers and utility managers in commercial and industrial facilities....
Packaged boiler rooms A brochure from AAON describes the company's BL Series of packaged boiler mechanical rooms, available in capacities from 500 to...
During the summer of 2005, The General Theological Seminary began renovating three of its buildings in New York's historic Chelsea neighborhood to house...
Founded in 1891, The Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Conn., consists of 50 buildings over 810 acres. In addition to more than 30 residential buildings...
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