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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Institutional and commercial facilities are full of technology that produces important benefits, from energy savings and sustainability to productivity and efficiency. Few products, however...

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...

“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 ...

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....

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...

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...

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...

Environmental Benefits of Sustainable Building Are Priceless, Says Texas Community College Sustainability Officer in Green Buildings & Green Technology, HVAC Dr. Johnette McKown, Executiv...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

"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 ...

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...