Codes & Standards: HVAC
HVAC energy-saving strategies
Learn about multiple energy-saving strategies — such as temperature and pressure reset and valve strategies — achievable through the use of a building automation system
What’s so special about office buildings? Learn about codes and standards
Office buildings are complex structures containing automated features, energy-saving designs, high-tech equipment and other components as advanced as you’d find in any other state-of-the-art project; it is vital to understand codes and standards
What’s so special about office buildings? Learn about HVAC and plumbing
Office buildings are complex structures containing automated features, energy-saving designs, high-tech equipment and other components as advanced as you’d find in any other state-of-the-art project. Read this for details on HVAC system and plumbing, piping and pumps
Codes and standards keep the wheels turning
Unlike a hamster wheel, on which the rodent goes nowhere, codes and standards can take engineers anywhere and everywhere
Lab, research facility design: Codes and standards
Learn tips on how to design labs and research facilities — some of the most high-tech buildings around
Top 5 Consulting-Specifying Engineer articles: November 15-21
Read the best articles from the past week. Specifying electrical systems, demand-controlled ventilation in HVAC, pipe systems and materials, NFPA 110-2019 and introduction to boilers.
Ask an expert: Hospitals, health care facilities: Codes and standards
Health care facility designers are expected to keep pace with increasingly complex, advanced engineered systems and features
Chiller plant cooling
How to reduce the heat load inside a chiller plant
Learning how to engineer colleges, universities better: HVAC and plumbing
Read about emerging trends in college and university buildings, and learn about the emerging trends impacting their design
Using demand-controlled ventilation in HVAC
Mechanical engineers should consider the many factors that go into designing buildings for indoor air quality and indoor environmental quality