Project Name: Equinox Fitness – Chestnut Hill Owner: Equinox Fitness Mechanical Engineer: RDK Engineers Mechanical Contractor: Cox Engineering Company Equipment: Pool Dehumidification Unit Manufacturer: Seresco Size: 8 Ton Compressor Dehumidifier DAC Sales Engineer: Jim Shiminski Equinox Fitness – Chestnut Hill, MA Equinox Fitness is a luxury fitness company with its national headquarters in New… Read more »
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Project Snapshot: Central Maine Medical Center | Custom Air Handling Units
Project Name: Central Maine Medical Center – Emergency Dept. Addition/Renovation Architect: MorrisSwitzer Environments for Health Mechanical Engineer: BVH Integrated Services Mechanical Contractor: Ranor Mechanical Equipment: Custom Energy Recovery Air Handling Units Manufacturer: Ingenia Size: Two (2) units & service vestibule – 40,000 & 55,000 CFM DAC Sales Engineer: Pat Will Project Highlights: Dual tunnel… Read more »
7 Reasons to use ECM Motors
It’s the buzz. Everyone is asking about ECM Motors and Fans. There are a lot of good reasons to consider them in your HVAC designs. Here are 7. High Efficiency: A big advantage of ECM motors is that they are significantly more efficient when compared to AC motors. ECM motors maintain a high level (65 to… Read more »
Ask Rick: Freeze stat location?
Q: Does a freeze stat always go after preheat coil and before chilled water coil or is it OK putting it on the leaving side of chilled water coil? A: You should use a freeze stat to protect your water coils from freezing. Rooftop units with water coils should always have freeze stats, even if using… Read more »
Indoor Pool Design: Part 2 of 4 – Load Calculation
Ralph Kittler, VP Sales, Co-Founder Seresco Technologies Inc. presents the A to Z of indoor pool design in a series of short segments that focus on key issues for engineers and architects. Here is Part 2 in a series of 4 videos. Part 2: Controlling humidity to provide a stable dew point condition year… Read more »
Ask Rick: Chilled Beams | Are drain pans required?
Q. As I read the Mechanical Code, Paragraph 307.2 Evaporators and cooling coils: “Condensate drain systems shall be provided for all equipment and appliances containing evaporators or cooling coils.” I am not aware of any exceptions for chilled beams. What is the latest on this? This is a good question that is being asked… Read more »
Ask Rick: Enthalpy Wheels in Labs?
Q. I’m working on a new science building. As you have written on your web site, it’s gotten harder to use wheels. You wrote a while back about a proposed Addendum K to 62.1 – did that ever go anywhere? As you might know, the Konvekta system is proposed as an alternate, yet it seems… Read more »
Chilled Beams | Now with Demand Controlled VAV
Chilled Beams vs. Variable Air Volume (VAV) Boxes. This is a debate that is still raging here in the US. We have seen a number of applications that use both. In the cases, where a VAV box is installed with a active chilled beam, the designer needs to be careful to set a minimum turndown… Read more »
Project Snapshot | Dartmouth College – Konvekta System
The new existing Burke Hall Chemistry Building was built in the 1950’s. The mechanical systems were renovated in the early 1990’s. A state of the art Konvekta energy recovery system was retrofitted into the system in 2012 to save energy from the 120,000 cfm of exhaust from the labs. Project Name: Dartmouth College – Burke Hall Science… Read more »
Pool Unit Design: WebSentry – 24/7 Factory Monitoring
Dave Lucas, President and Co-Founder Seresco Technologies Inc. presents WebSentry – 24/7 Factory Monitoring & Protection. This is an awesome feature. In today’s world, if we can remotely turn on and off our home HVAC system, why can’t we connect factories directly with their equipment? The technology is coming; these guys are way ahead… Read more »