While it seems like just yesterday, it is now 21 years since the BACnet standard, ASHRAE 135, was approved and published.

Full-scale commissioning always starts in the design phase and includes at least one design review cycle.

Engineers face multiple options for providing hydronic heat, along with additional decisions regarding whether that design should also serve other components such as domestic hot water.

Radiant HVAC — what is it? Heating is done in three ways in buildings — convection, conduction, and radiation. Heating and cooling with air is common in most building HVAC systems.

Packaged Multizoneasaurus thrived primarily between 1960 and 1980 A.D.

According to the United States Department of Energy, motors in homes and commercial buildings consume more than one-third of all the electricity used in these buildings.

The Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center (ARTIC) in Orange County, CA, is being called the Grand Central Station of the future. 

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP-Columbia) is increasing its chiller plant performance — and reaping big savings — with the use of weather forecast-based analytics. 

This month’s B2B will focus on a hospital’s offsite data center as described in the 2015 ASHRAE Handbook — HVAC Applicationschapter 19.

This past May I wrote in the Back2Basics column about the design intent of a small city school system that chose to invest in an annual contract for a temporary air-cooled chiller for special events and emergency crisis shelter center.