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Due to the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) program, Department of Defense facilities across the country were consolidated to improve efficiency and reduce operating costs.

This month’s Facility File will focus on the B2B November test for HVAC applications to replace an existing cooling tower at a pharmaceutical facility.

With a continuous pressure to decrease turnover time while also providing the medical staff with utmost flexibility, the design of the HVAC systems for today’s operating rooms requires not just special attention but also complex analyses.

Today’s operating rooms are inefficient and overcrowded, and the turnover between cases is often lengthy and variable.

Saint Vincent College, located on a 200-acre campus just 40 miles outside of Pittsburgh, places environmental stewardship as a top priority.

This month’s Facility File will focus on the B2B August test for the retrofit of an iconic 1950s building’s steam-to-hot water heating system.

A new Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study involving 196 cooling towers nationwide found that 84% contained Legionella DNA, indicating that the dangerous bacteria was present or had been at some point.

Designing a VRF system for competitive bid is challenging due to each manufacturer’s unique implementation of the VRF system technology.

Hospitals consume approximately 5% of the total energy use in the United States.

There is no escaping the fact that fouling is going to take place on the heat transfer surfaces of refrigeration machines.