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During the summer of 2005, The General Theological Seminary began renovating three of its buildings in New York's historic Chelsea neighborhood to house...More

Times have changed and so have the buildings in which we live, work, and teach. They have become more energy-efficient because of better facades and more sophisticated HVAC, electrical, and automation systems. But what about the central plants that produce the heating and cooling delivered to these buildings? How have they evolved over the years? Are they serving us in an efficient, sustainable manner?...More

Located in Cary, N.C., Colonial Baptist Church consists of five multipurpose buildings (Figure 1) that employed a combination of standard and programmable...More

The control of all-variable-flow chilled-water systems is thought to be so complicated and, thus, difficult for operators to understand that many engineers and designers resist converting their primary/secondary systems, even though the return on investment of such a conversion is measured in weeks, rather than years, with chilled-water-plant energy consumption reduced by at least 10 percent and often by 20 percent or more....More

The one constant about technology is that it always is changing. Two major categories of technology in health-care facilities are information-technology (IT) and procedure rooms. This article will discuss the cooling of IT facilities and highlight some of the differences between IT facilities and procedure rooms....More

Owned and operated by Share Foundation, a not-for-profit public charity, Life Touch Hospice in El Dorado, Ark., opened its 16-bed John R. Williamson Hospice...More

APC by Schneider Electric has announced it was selected as a winner in the Energy Efficient Products category of the 2009 Green Enterprise IT (GEIT) Awards, presented by the Uptime Institute and co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy....More

Flood! A few friends came over for a dinner party. With the first hot weather of the season, the air conditioning was especially welcome. Cleaning up,...More

The HCFC phaseout means that new equipment will be designed to work with refrigerants other than R-22, and therefore, it is important that building owners receive heating and cooling systems that are compliant and affordable to maintain....More

The air conditioning in a tanning salon had not worked correctly all summer. That was not good: Tanning customers want to look like they have spent all...More

Completed in 1967 and maintained by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), the 32-story, 1.5 million-sq-ft Anthony J. Celebrezze Federal Building...More

I occasionally meet students who perform maintenance in less-developed countries. They often tell intriguing stories of resourceful local technicians...More