Streamlining Your Workflow with the Price Engineer Toolkit
A variable air volume terminal unit, or VAV box, provides space-specific heating, ventilation or air-conditioning to individual zones within a larger indoor environment. The most common VAV box is a single-duct terminal unit, which regulates the volume of air that each space requires by adjusting a damper with an automated controller and actuator. VAV terminals often include additional components such as hydronic or electric heating coils and fans equipped with variable-speed motors.
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Terminals,
HVAC Fundamentals,
HVAC,
Engineering,
Design Engineering,
Training,
Tech Tip,
Software
Reducing overall energy consumption with Chilled Beams
In modern buildings, the heating, cooling, and ventilation systems consume a large portion of the total energy use. This creates an obvious target when looking for areas where improvements and optimizations can reduce annual energy consumption. Costs associated with these improvements can be reduced year over year. Within the HVAC system, the largest consumer of energy will typically be fan energy. Using hydronic systems to transport heating or cooling energy throughout a building is a great way to dramatically reduce the overall energy consumption of the entire HVAC system.
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Topics:
Beams,
System Efficiency,
HVAC Fundamentals,
HVAC,
Engineering,
Design Engineering,
Tech Tip
A Flexible, Localized Air Handling Solution
The fan column is a vertical fan unit designed to discharge air into a raised access floor plenum. The unit may be likened to an air handler as it mixes filtered, cooled return air with pre-treated outside air typically from a dedicated outdoor air system (DOAS) to achieve the design supply air temperature, then discharge the mixed air into the raised access floor plenum.
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Topics:
Underfloor,
HVAC Fundamentals,
Engineering,
Design Engineering,
Tech Tip
Dirt Deposits around Ceiling Diffusers
Smudging is more commonly known among First Nations as a ceremonial burning of one or more medicines gathered from the earth. In the world of HVAC, smudging is a term used to describe dirt being deposited on the ceiling around a supply diffuser, a common problem in all types of buildings.
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GRD,
Diffusers,
HVAC Fundamentals,
HVAC,
Engineering,
Design Engineering,
Tech Tip
Application of Fan Filter Units as Part of an HVAC System
Fan filter units can be applied in a variety of ways to best suit your application. This blog post provides an overview of the best practices for designing a system with Fan Filter Units.
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HVAC Fundamentals,
HVAC,
Engineering,
Design Engineering,
Training,
Tech Tip,
Critical Environments
