Facilitating such mechanical upgrades, one must focus on all factors, including identifying critical loads, electrical system sizing, load shedding, and more.

The provision of adequate ventilation is an essential factor in maintaining patient wellbeing in a health care setting; therefore, maintaining acceptable IAQ has become a huge challenge for health care facilities.

This month’s B2B will focus on an 800,000-square-foot existing in-patient health care facility committed to recommissioning its boiler room operation and maintenance management to maintain a highly performing, safe boiler plant environment.

The same mechanisms that keep humans warm do not serve the same purpose in the built environment.

Why is it important to define the physical architecture (or simply “architecture” in this column) in the design?

Over the next three months I’ll be taking you on a walking tour.

Polypropylene-random (PP-R) piping played an important role in the completion of a refrigeration project at an Ohio beef and pork processing plant.

Behind every good man, there’s a great woman. Or, so the saying goes. In HVACR engineering; however, the numbers insist that mantra simply is not true.

Hot, steamy summertime indoor temperatures and skyrocketing utility bills were not a “fun” cost of doing business for the Charleston Fun Park, a five-acre indoor/outdoor family entertainment center.

The Marlton, a large nine-story building located in the heart of Greenwich Village in New York City, has a storied history. It has served as home to some of the most famous and influential artists and writers of the modern era, such as Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady.