Keeping tabs on your HVAC assets can be a real pain. With different systems, manufacturers, install dates, and repair priorities, it’s a lot of data to track. If you manage a large portfolio of facilities, this challenge gets amplified with every...
3 Common Concerns for Your HVAC Units Going into Spring HVAC systems regulate and move heated and cooled air throughout residential and commercial buildings, from homes, to offices, to indoor stadiums. With spring around the corner, it is important...
After years of working on Midwest HVAC systems, sometimes it’s good for facility managers to remember two basic truths regarding equipment: it all eventually fails, and most HVAC equipment have limited lifespans. While no two facilities are the...
While no two HVAC efficiency projects are the same, energy optimizations often encounter the same four, primary mechanical functions. For the third and final blog in our three-part series on the four fundamentals of HVAC equipment, we wrap up the...
Heating and cooling buildings (excluding electric heating) usually involves a fluid (liquid or gas) flowing through ducts or piping. Understanding fluid movement in HVAC systems is part II of our series, HVAC Overview. Roof Top Units (RTUs) and Air...
Ever explain HVAC systems to someone and watch their eyes glaze over? Ever try to wrap your head around HVAC and what makes it important? HVAC, or Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning systems are complex and custom-engineered to serve their own...
Sitting in your office in the winter, do you ever feel a little sleepy? Ever think to yourself, "why am I tired at work?" This might be due to shorter days, overindulging during the holidays or not enough coffee. Or it could be something else. Turns...
Sleeping with the fan on ensures the movement of air, in your bedroom and on your rooftops. But how do you know the fans in your air handling units (AHU) and rooftop units (RTU) won’t fail overnight? If equipment starts to fail or you’re spending a...
The humble Variable Frequency Drive, or “VFD” is an operations team’s best friend. Fundamentally, the VFD HVAC solution allows you to control motor speed. Pumps and Systems Magazine explains that “Variable frequency drives (VFDs) convert constant...
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A custom-engineered hot water boiler upgrade is saving one of our Cambridge, MA-based customers over $140,000 annually. Energy services – like LED lighting upgrades, data center mechanical optimization or building management system improvements –...
The ability to control and automate building systems, including HVAC, is an obvious gain for a facility manager. HVAC systems form a critical component of any facility’s purpose and are responsible for several key functions, several of which are...
What’s both central to the HVAC system and a large consumer of energy costs for your facility? The Air Handling Unit (or AHU). Air Handling Units condition and circulate air in a building or facility as part of the heating, ventilating, and...
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Winter means colder temperatures, especially in locations across the U.S. like the Midwest and Northeast. And with those colder temperatures and shorter daylight hours, it can take a lot of energy to keep buildings warm, comfortable, and well lit....