Ted Craig

Engineered Systems’ Commercial Comfort Products (CCP) award recognizes products that can be conveniently designed, specified, installed, and maintained across six categories: cooling equipment, heating equipment, IAQ and ventilation, motors and drives, pumps and flow controls, and rooftop units (RTUs).

This week, our readers were interested in finding out how to rise to the challenge of designing a central utility plant.

Building projects seem poised to continue growing despite higher interest rates and higher costs, but signs of growing unease appear in one industry survey.

What are engineers making time to read?

The latest readings on building projects show continued uncertainty, but some reasons to expect continued growth in the near term.

Deal activity continues in the commercial HVAC market. The latest news involves one of the industry’s largest manufacturers expanding its refrigerant portfolio.

There’s been a push to increase outdoor air since the pandemic, but the recent Canadian wildfires show the health benefits of doing so are more complicated. 

Contractors keep on hiring and they are spending more on wages for those workers. However, it appears demand is slowing in some sectors.

Uncertainty pervades the economy these days and the construction industry reflects that with unemployment lower, varying strength among sectors and constant concern about the rate of interest rate increases and the soundness of the banking system.

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