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Mauricio Salinas

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Acoustical Enclosure in Downtown Calgary

Posted by Mauricio Salinas on April 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Acoustical enclosure on the rooftop of a building in a congested downtown area

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
A shared workspace showing a silencer close coupled to a terminal unit

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

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