“The Most Famous HVAC Contractor on the Planet”
“The Most Famous HVAC Contractor on the Planet” in HVAC Want to hear about “the most famous HVAC contractor on the planet”? That’s the title Construction Week gave to Alan Givens, CEO of ...
Specifying Effective Portable Cooling Equipment
Institutional and commercial facilities are full of technology that produces important benefits, from energy savings and sustainability to productivity and efficiency. Few products, however...
Fundamentals of Excellent HVAC Maintenance
Fundamentals of Excellent HVAC Maintenance in HVAC We’ve highlighted articles written by James Piper, P.E., for FacilitiesNet in the past. See, for example, “Action Steps for HVAC Pros an...
Solving Cooling Challenges
Given the complexity of the cooling challenge in such spaces, managers might consider working closely with the manufacturer or distributor to specify the most appropriate unit....
Power Monitoring: HVAC Overload Prevention
Power monitoring to discover and rectify potential overloads, poor power quality and source loss all constitute proper approaches to effectively maintaining data centers. Using infrared sca...
Who Does What? An Overview of HVAC System Roles a...
Who Does What? An Overview of HVAC System Roles and Controls in Green Buildings & Green Technology, HVAC Reed Construction Data has published a technical overview of the types of HVAC con...
A Short History of Air Conditioning – Part 1
A Short History of Air Conditioning – Part 1 in HVAC As you know, our subject here at Just Venting is HVAC. As in, news, information, and advice about everything to do with the industry i...
Retro-Greening on a Grand Scale: Big News for the...
Retro-Greening on a Grand Scale: Big News for the Empire State Building in Green Buildings & Green Technology, HVAC If this isn’t big news – both literally and figuratively – for the ener...
New Report Identifies $400 Billion Market Opportu...
New Report Identifies $400 Billion Market Opportunity in Energy Efficient Commercial Building Retrofits in Green Buildings & Green Technology, HVAC A new white paper from Pike Research, w...
Chiller Replacement Creates Operational Challenges
The arrival of the four new chillers affected a number of different areas within the department and the facility. First and foremost for the department was the impact on staff....
Four HVAC Gains With No Budget Pains
It's hardly news that buildings use 40 percent of the natural resources and more than 70 percent of the electrical energy in the United States. And facility managers know there are plenty o...
Use Your System Wisely: 10 Air-Conditioning Syste...
Use Your System Wisely: 10 Air-Conditioning System Tips for Spring in HVAC Utah Business magazine, Utah’s only monthly statewide business publication, offers a helpful article at their Ut...
Energy Saving Tip #4: Consider Retro-commissionin...
Energy Saving Tip #4: Consider Retro-commissioning Your Building in Green Buildings & Green Technology, HVAC The National Conference on Building Commissioning (NCBC) defines building comm...
Action Steps for HVAC Pros and Facility Managers ...
Action Steps for HVAC Pros and Facility Managers in a Tough Economy in HVAC First, the bad news: The economic crisis is continuing to unspool in what economist and journalist Robert Kuttn...
Multi-tenant Buildings A Complicating Factor In H...
In a multitenant building, "one of the higher barriers is, who benefits?" says Charles Culp, a professor in the architecture department at Texas A&M. Tenants would see energy savings, but t...
Efficient HVAC Goes to School: Two True Stories
Efficient HVAC Goes to School: Two True Stories in HVAC We positively love meaty, detailed articles about HVAC systems in large-scale business, government, educational, and other environm...
Chiller Replacement Creates Equipment Issues
The department has undertaken a number of chiller replacements in recent years, Arnold says, and has tried to standardize the units to streamline maintenance activities and training, as wel...
Determining Facility Cooling Needs
One of the first steps for managers looking to install or upgrade their portable cooling for server rooms is to understand the impact of servers and IT equipment on the cooling load....
Good HVAC-Related Publications for Keeping Up wit...
Good HVAC-Related Publications for Keeping Up with the Times in HVAC The March 2009 issue of Consulting-Specifying Engineer (CSE) features two articles of interest to HVAC pros and facili...
Facing HVAC Demands to Protect Critical Systems
Computer servers and data-storage requirements are expanding in institutional and commercial facilities, thanks to increasing amounts of data, as well as growing demands for access to criti...
Regular HVAC Maintenance Vital for Efficiency — B...
Regular HVAC Maintenance Vital for Efficiency — Both Human and Mechanical in HVAC We usually avoid referring to material published at EzineArticles since it’s a service that is mainly mea...
Dependable Power Sources
Depending on the level of uptime dictated by the information technology manager, reliability of the system might require multiple dependable sources of power that could include dual electri...
Maintain Your HVAC System to Head Off the High Co...
Maintain Your HVAC System to Head Off the High Cost of Poor IAQ in Green Buildings & Green Technology, HVAC Summer is upon us, and that means it’s time to seal the building and crank up t...
Field Museum Benefits from an Ice Age
On the shore of Lake Michigan, the Field Museum houses one of the world's premier collections of anthropological and biological artifacts, with a central collection comprising over 20 milli...
Replacing Chillers With a High School In Session ...
Replacing one chiller is difficult enough. Replacing four chillers while the facilities they serve remain open and operational is a challenge most maintenance and engineering managers might...
HVAC Maintenance: Preventive Is Best
HVAC Maintenance: Preventive Is Best in HVAC So when’s the last time you visited ACCA’s website (that’s the Air Conditioning Contractors of America) and checked out their page titled “Pre...
Trending Electrical HVAC Power Consumption
As computing power has increased, so has the density of the power and the associated heat gain related to the equipment. Server racks that once were nearly empty now are filled, and they pu...
Keeping a Clean HVAC System: Practical Advice for...
Keeping a Clean HVAC System: Practical Advice for Powerful Benefits in Green Buildings & Green Technology, HVAC In this post we’ll let other people do all of the talking (with some judici...
Sustainable HVAC Operations: ASHRAE Guideline Sho...
Despite what senior managers tend to think, "utilities are not a fixed expense," says Bill Harrison, past ASHRAE president and the CEO of Harrison Energy Partners. Almost any building can c...
Energy Efficiency: Beyond Chiller Replacement
"It also included an extension of the thermal lines," McNicol says. "As we're growing, particularly with this new chemistry and computer science building, the lines that were going in that ...
Environmental Benefits of Sustainable Building Ar...
Environmental Benefits of Sustainable Building Are Priceless, Says Texas Community College Sustainability Officer in Green Buildings & Green Technology, HVAC Dr. Johnette McKown, Executiv...
What Effect does the Economic Recovery Act Have o...
What Effect does the Economic Recovery Act Have on HVAC? in Green Buildings & Green Technology, HVAC Contracting Business magazine, “the leading business-to-business magazine for commerci...