Read the best articles from the past week. Smart building essentials, electrical power quality, metal-clad cable and busways, electrification and chilled water system design.
Consulting-Specifying Engineer‘s top 5 articles online over the past week covered smart building essentials, electrical power quality, metal-clad cable and busways, electrification and chilled water system design. Were you out last week? Catch up with a link to each article below.
1. Top smart building system essentials – These three critical considerations, three best investments and three common pitfalls will help in the design of a smart building.
2. Electrical power quality and system harmonics: Practical options exist – Harmonic distortion resolution of variable frequency drive motor applications will provide the most beneficial actions for IEEE 519 compliance.
3. How to specify metal-clad cable and busways – Wiring methods like metal-clad cable and busways, using premanufactured components, can offer significant labor savings, but their limitations should be understood before specifying them.
4. Combatting the climate crisis through building electrification – What exactly should we first do with our buildings to combat the climate crisis?
5. Video: Chilled water system design with Henderson Engineers – Two mechanical system design experts take a holistic view of chillers and chilled water systems.
