As scientists continue to study ways the coronavirus can be spread, one question involves aerosol droplets that people exhale while breathing. Can those droplets circulate in the air long enough to be picked up by a ventilation system and recirculated through building ducts? There has not been a clear answer.
The new design relies on a gear mechanism to create the orbiting motion of a scroll wrap within another stationary scroll wrap to compress a refrigerant.
Helpful information for school district facility managers, administrators, and maintenance technicians as they prepare to re-open school buildings after an extended period of shutdown.
COVID-19 left more than a few people with openings on their summer calendars. That gave some students, faculty, and staff at the University of Virginia’s School of Engineering an idea.
Successfully navigating toward the “next normal” will require holistically evaluating the interrelationships between people, education, and research delivery processes; the physical environment; the use of technology; and financial realities.
The advance shows practical pathways for designing paints that, if used on rooftops and other parts of a building, could significantly reduce cooling costs beyond what standard white ‘cool-roof’ paints can achieve.
Built in 1921, A.K. Suter Elementary School in
Pensacola, Florida — like many older public
schools in the state — used a retrofitted
patchwork of packaged and split system air conditioning equipment to keep students comfortable in a warm, humid climate.
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