Top 5 Consulting-Specifying Engineer Articles, August 15-21: HVAC, MEP Giants revenue shifts, LED lighting specifications, more

Consulting-Specifying Engineer’s Top 5 most read articles online, for Aug. 15-21 covered HVAC, MEP Giants revenue shifts, LED lighting specifications, efficient data centers, and LED for retrofit project. Link to each article below.

1. HVAC codes and standards: cooling and energy efficiency

Codes and standards dictate the design of HVAC systems; however, there are ways to improve the design of nonresidential buildings to achieve maximum energy efficiency.

2. MEP Giants revenue shifts

The 2016 MEP Giants gross revenue increased compared to last year, most likely due to company mergers and larger and more varied projects. MEP/FP design revenue decreased.

3. Your questions answered: LED lighting specifications

Additional information from the July 28 Lighting: LED specifications webcast includes details about color shift, American Medical Association recommendations, and lighting controls. Presenters Haley Darst and Richard Vedvik tackle multiple questions.

4. Planning and designing resilient, efficient data centers

Evolving technologies have developed into best practices to create secure, reliable, highly available, and adaptable data center spaces.

5. Is an LED right for your next retrofit project?

Building owners are asking lighting designers and electrical engineers to help them save on energy costs, and replacing fluorescent, HID, or other lights with LEDs is in high demand.

The list was developed using CFE Media’s web analytics for stories viewed on csemag.com, August 15-21, for articles published within the last two months.

Ksenia Avrakhova, production coordinator, CFE Media, kavrakhova@cfemedia.com.

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