Top 5 Consulting-Specifying Engineer articles: September 24-30, 2021

Read the best articles from the past week. Hydraulic systems, circuit coordination, COVID-19 mitigation, chilled water plants and automated fault detection.

By Chris Vavra October 1, 2021
Courtesy: ESD

Consulting-Specifying Engineer‘s top 5 articles online over the past week covered hydraulic systems, circuit coordination, COVID-19 mitigation, chilled water plants and automated fault detection. Were you out last week? Catch up with a link to each article below.

1. Designing hydraulic systems on high-rise, large buildings – Know how making correct decisions in the initial hydraulic plan helps the facility operate more efficiently and effectively.

2. Circuit coordination: reliability, personnel safety or both?As electrical power systems become more complex, system coordination and protection of a facility becomes increasingly important for safe and reliable operation.

3. Personal environments to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 How personal environment style air purifiers can mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in the built environment, and create healthier spaces in the future.

4. Understanding chilled water plant performanceChilled water plant optimization strategies can be deployed through traditional programmed sequence of operations.

5. Engineering with automated fault detection and diagnosticsBuilding engineers and commissioning professionals can use automated fault detection and diagnostics, which has been more commonly used to save building energy and facilitate predictive maintenance.


Author Bio: Chris Vavra is web content manager for CFE Media and Technology.