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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.
Topics: Acoustics, Noise Control, Acoustic Louvers, Acoustic Panels, Engineering, Design Engineering
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.
Topics: Noise Control, HVAC Silencers, Pressure Drop, Velocity Profile, Terminals, HVAC, Engineering, Design Engineering
Since starting operations in 2019, Price’s Crestridge factory in Georgia has become the US base for production of many HVAC products, including chilled beams, underfloor air diffusers, fan columns and other products for Sustainable Systems; plenums for GRD; and silencers and acoustic panels for Noise Control.
Topics: Noise Control, GRD, Underfloor, HVAC Fundamentals, HVAC, Engineering, Design Engineering, Tours
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: Steven Berg.
Topics: Noise Control, Employees, HVAC, People of Price
Public schools play an important role in the communities they serve. More than just a place for students to learn, schools offer valuable extracurricular programs for young people and their families. They help foster a connection between the students and the world around them, and the best schools continually rise to the needs of their neighbors. That was the case in Minneapolis, MN, when Ella Baker Global Studies and Humanities Magnet School (formerly Jefferson Middle School) realized its HVAC system was causing too much noise.
Topics: Acoustics, Noise Control, Noise Solution, HVAC, Engineering, Design Engineering
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