Exceeding High-Performance Expectations
Homeowners and consumers are becoming more familiar with performance construction concepts and how product choices impact comfort, health, efficiency and ...
Posts tagged ‘indoor air quality’
This Fourth of July, Evaluate Your HVAC System!
After celebrating the Fourth of July each summer, consider checking on your home’s HVAC system to make sure you can ...
Prevent Indoor “Scare” Quality this Halloween!
Unbeknownst to you, there may be a host of scary “monsters” lurking in your home. What are they you ask? ...
The New MLZ One-Way Ceiling Cassette Provides Comfort and Installation Flexibility
Mitsubishi Electric introduces its MLZ Series One-Way Ceiling Cassette. An expansion of our M-Series line, the product features a sleek, ...
Moving Beyond Accessible Design
Recently, Google pledged to make their workspaces “ADA-plus” compliant. Their goal was to exceed the building accessibility standards ...
Project Profile: Olsen Residence
Gregg Olsen is a partner with Larry March in Eagle Services, Gilbert, Arizona – a business that offers plumbing, electrical and air conditioning. That experience meant that when it came time to design his new, 3,450-square-foot house, Olsen designed not just the overall layout, but also the actual systems behind its walls.
Project Profile: Primrose School of South Tampa
Primrose Schools provide early childhood education at over 300 franchised locations across the country. One Florida location – the Primrose ...
Specifying With Thermal Comfort in Mind
It’s common knowledge that thermal comfort ranks among the most common occupant complaints in hotels. As a result, thermal comfort ...
How VRF Addresses Educational Facilities’ IAQ Challenges
Indoor air quality (IAQ) is especially important in educational facilities. Viruses, bacteria, allergens, dust, gases and other contaminants circulate inside, ...
Project Profile: The Covenant School
The Covenant School was founded 30 years ago in Charlottesville, Virginia. The lower school, for students in pre-K through ...
Project Profile: Simpson Hall – University of Florida
For University of Florida alumni and residents, the city of Gainesville is affectionately referred to as ...
Projects From Our Colleagues: Morgan & Associates, Kansas City
Our colleagues in Kansas City, Kansas, Morgan & Associates, Inc., have been doing some meaningful work specifying our Variable ...
Project Profile: Garland DOE Zero Energy Ready Home
Wade Griffith Photography For homebuilder Steve Brown, working around the renovation constraints of a 51-year-old home in Garland, Texas, ...
Project Profile: Jesuit Spirituality Center at Saint Charles College
Most retrofits are challenged by the difficulty of replacing old, cumbersome ductwork, but imagine retrofitting a building designed before ...
ASHRAE and IAQA Join Forces
The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) and the ...
Is Duct Leakage Testing Really Just Smoke & Mirrors?
Of the ...
Ductless on Every Job: Hot and Cold Spots
Our Ductless on Every Job campaign is in full swing, so we’re ...
Project Profile: Green Acres Barn, Eden Prairie, Minn.
“If it was a 90 degree day, you just couldn’t be in there,” said Craig Schumacher, president of ...
Ductless on Every Job: Allergies
We’re back again to educate contractors on another situation where they could consider ductless as an answer to a sales ...
The Not-So-Obvious Comfort Factor
The thermostat is set at 68 degrees Fahrenheit and it feels like 80, the outdoor unit is louder than ever, ...