Wade Conlan, P.E., CxA, commissioning discipline manager, Hanson Professional Services Inc., recently met with Herb Woerpel, editor-in-chief of Engineered Systems, to discuss how commissioning can curb the COVID-19 pandemic, his role on ASHRAE’s Epidemic Task Force, the upcoming Associated Air Balance Council (AABC) Annual Meeting, and more for the publication's Mechanical Marvels series.
The scientists developed nanoscale copper wires with specially shaped surfaces to catalyze a chemical reaction that reduces greenhouse gas emissions while generating ethylene — a valuable chemical simultaneously.
Although advanced M&V has not yet been widely and fully accepted and used, it promises to achieve better energy savings with less time and cost for facility managers.
This funding opportunity will provide up to $80 million for projects that enhance energy demand flexibility across buildings and the electric power grid.
Even though the majority of facility managers (80%) believe that the demand for data will be greater over the next five years, many of them are not fully or regularly using data to improve their situation.
With revolutionary smart building concepts, building automation over IP is the case where building automation and IT merge completely over IP-based systems.