As time ticks on, building owners and managers alike in New York City need to assess their carbon footprint. The year 2024 is right around the corner, and without appropriate action, legislators will hit building owners’ wallets with emissions fines.
I’m lucky to work with dozens of excellent people across the efficiency projects I help sell and develop.
While no two HVAC efficiency projects are the same, energy optimizations often encounter the same four, primary mechanical functions.
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.
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? Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning systems are complex and custom-engineered to serve their own facilities.
50 miles north of Chicago, a manufacturing facility creates products designed to improve performance and protection on job sites, in the US and around the world. A leading manufacturer in their sector, the company has dozens of locations in the US.
One of the most cost-effective energy efficiency upgrades available to facilities, LED lighting has a longer lifespan and higher lumen output than its predecessors.
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 HVAC system.