November 1, 2009
Articles
In July 2006, HPAC Engineering published a guest editorial titled A Historic Opportunity, written by Edward Mazria, AIA, founder of Architecture 2030,...
Engineers, contractors, and other building professionals gathered in Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 23-26 for the first-ever HVACR Week. Consisting of HPAC Engineering's...
John Ehlen and Randy Jeter are HPAC Engineering's new Central/West sales representatives. Ehlen and Jeter represent HPAC Engineering and all of its supplements/special...
The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) is accepting proposals for a user's manual for ANSI/ASHRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1-2010, Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings. ...
Building Sustainability From the Inside Out” is the theme of the technical program of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers' (ASHRAE's) 2010 Winter Conference...
Three facilities a warehouse, forge plant, and paint-preparation area had complaints about excessive heat in working areas. I recommended that air be...
Energy-recovery ventilators Energy-recovery ventilators (ERVs) help meet the demand for improved indoor environmental quality (IEQ) by satisfying requirements...
Burners brochure A brochure from Babcock & Wilcox describes the company's AireJet low-nitrogen-oxide burner, which was developed for use with overfire...
Editor's note: The following article is based on the session Sustainable Design and Energy Retrofits: A Collaborative Digital Workflow, presented by the...
Variable-frequency-drive- (VFD-) generated harmonics largely is a perceived, rather than real, issue. In 27 years of applying VFDs in HVAC and other applications, this author has experienced only a handful of actual harmonics problems, with all but one stemming from high levels of voltage distortion, not the current distortion that has been getting so much attention lately. ...
At Emory University in Atlanta, motors on two cooling towers that had been in service for approximately 20 years were becoming a maintenance headache....
Contactors Motor-control products, TeSys D 40A, 50A, and 65A contactors feature Everlink termination technology, which provides a direct connection to...
As part of a plan to reduce the energy consumption of the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn., to 25 to 30 percent below the criteria set forth in ANSI/ASHRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1, Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings, Genesys Engineering was hired to conduct an energy audit. ...
During the late 1990s, as networks formed the backbone of businesses and Web browsers became the default means of accessing new applications, it quickly...
Forward-thinking health-care facilities see patients as their No. 1 priority; therefore, their facility-automation systems should support a agenda. Integrating...
BUILDING-AUTOMATION APPLIANCES Sedona Framework has been added to Contemporary Controls' BAS Remote to provide controller capability. Able to be configured...
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