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What Is an Application-Specific Controller?

Posted by Brad Cole on June 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM

A Range of Devices for Precise Control and Simplified Installation

In the HVAC industry, an application-specific controller is a device that comes preprogrammed with a sequence of operations for the equipment it’s intended to control. This could be anything from a boiler or air handler to a rooftop unit or terminal unit.

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Topics: Terminals, Controls, HVAC Fundamentals, HVAC, Engineering

People of Price: JP Pelletier

Posted by Price Industries on May 20, 2025 at 9:00 AM

Building Foundation and Overcoming Challenges

Price’s ever-growing team is made up of extraordinarily talented individuals from different backgrounds. We periodically profile a “person of Price” to give you a glimpse at the person behind all those emails or the voice at the end of the phone! This post: JP Pelletier.

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Topics: Employees, HVAC, People of Price, Critical Environments

Designing Schools That Achieve ‘Valedictorian of Air Quality’ Status

Posted by Ryan Johnson on May 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM

Promoting Healthy Indoor Air Quality in the Classroom

As HVAC professionals, one of our primary goals is to promote healthy indoor air quality in all spaces, and there are fewer applications where this is more important than in classrooms. It is estimated that approximately half of public school districts need to update or replace the HVAC systems in their schools.1

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Topics: Displacement, HVAC, Engineering, Design Engineering, Tech Tip, ASHRAE 62, Filtration

Acoustical Enclosure in Downtown Calgary

Posted by Mauricio Salinas on April 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM

Bringing Design to Reality

Back in 2022, a mixed-use building in the Downtown East Village neighborhood of Calgary, AB, managed by the Calgary Housing Corporation, was identified as violating the city’s noise bylaws due to excessive noise emitted by its air-conditioning condensers. To address the issue, the city had initially planned to purchase and relocate new low-noise variable refrigerant flow (VRF) condensers.

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Topics: Acoustics, Noise Control, Acoustic Louvers, Acoustic Panels, Engineering, Design Engineering

Mitigating the Risks of Close-Coupled Silencers

Posted by Mauricio Salinas on April 15, 2025 at 9:00 AM

System Testing to Optimize Terminal Unit Acoustics

In many commercial HVAC systems, engineers pair VAV boxes, fan-powered boxes and fan coils with duct silencers to meet the acoustical requirements of a space. While all the components are tested to industry standards – AHRI 880 and AHRI 260 for terminal units and fan coils and ASTM E477-20 for silencers – the combination of these two categories in real-world installations isn’t always straightforward.

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Topics: Noise Control, HVAC Silencers, Pressure Drop, Velocity Profile, Terminals, HVAC, Engineering, Design Engineering

At Price, when we say “the sky is the limit,” we actually mean it.

Our customers have come to count on a consistent and ever-increasing stream of new products and enhancements.  Price has a large team of experienced and talented engineers who are consistently working on breakthrough ideas.  We are not afraid to move into whole new product categories if we believe we have a contribution to make.

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