Patten CAT is a fourth-generation Caterpillar sales and service organization that began back in 1933.

During construction of the 190-unit, 15-story JeffJack Apartments building in downtown Chicago, the owner sought an effective method to prevent snow and ice build-up on the building’s parking garage ramps during winter.

Hydraulic modeling is seldom used in the day-to-day design of closed-loop or open-loop heating and cooling systems.

This month’s Facility File will focus on the B2B April test for an HVAC application within a high school facility, with the existing field house HVAC system being retrofitted to serve as an emergency shelter building with its associated locker rooms and toilet facilities.

Engineers who pull out the 2015 ASHRAE Handbook HVAC Applications or 2016 HVAC System and Equipment Handbook will not find the topic of temporary HVAC systems.

For those who design in BIM/CAD, manufacturer-provided content is widely viewed as being superior to generic, out-of-the box content when planning and designing a project.

The town of Portsmouth, RI, had four schools (two elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school) with outdated, inefficient gas-fired hot water boilers that were becoming expensive to maintain and operate.

Changing laws, advanced technologies, and an aging population are just a few factors driving the cost consciousness of the healthcare industry today.

This month’s Facility File will focus on the B2B March test for an existing three-story private office building energy retrofit.

Famous mathematician Edward Lorenz coined the phrase “The Butterfly Effect,” which is the belief that some small occurrence could create devastating results in another location far away.