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The 2016 Sustainability Benchmark Report released by GreenHealth showed that sustainability is rapidly becoming a design requirement of most health care organizations.

The editors of Engineered Systems are proud to introduce The Blueprint — a Q&A interview with HVACR engineering’s leading voices.

In my July 2019 column, I mentioned that this month I’d be talking about a technology that could help you to create a reoccurring line of revenue in your consulting and engineering business.

Whether it’s new construction commissioning or existing building retro-commissioning, “commissioning” is about entire systems and their performance.

Back in July 2007, I wrote in this column on how troubleshooting can be a niche business, and it certainly has been for me over the years.

Despite being led by a brainless, heartless, and gutless entourage, one may presume that Dorothy could have eventually stumbled her way to the Wizard of Oz’s doorstep with or without the assistance of the yellow brick road.

The International Society of Automation (ISA) announced the first founding members of its new Global Cybersecurity Alliance (GCA): Schneider Electric, Rockwell Automation, Honeywell, Johnson Controls, Claroty, and Nozomi Networks.

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Old manufacturing facilities bite the dust every year in the U.S. Artificial intelligence (AI) and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) have provided opportunities for newer “smart plants” to replace stodgy, old manufacturing systems that aren’t worth rebuilding.

Variable refrigerant flow (VRF) systems are popular options in both residential and customer facilities.