This controller provides the necessary redundancy for critical facilities while providing optimization that reduces the energy consumption of the HVAC equipment.
Cathy Crowley, mechanical director, Mason & Hanger, shares a list of best practices her firm developed to provide the safest environment for employees returning to brick-and-mortar work locations.
Advances in the reliability and tolerance to environmental conditions of data center equipment have led many large-scale data centers to take full advantage of the outdoor ambient conditions to provide cooling for the servers and other critical network equipment to lower the PUEs for these facilities.
The WSE, providing what is commonly known as "free cooling," uses outdoor air to naturally cool water and other process fluids, reducing compressor work and increasing chiller efficiency.
The ZIP with BACnet provides building management system (BMS) operators flexibility with economizer logic and control parameters now available over the buildings’ communication bus.
Underground cooling towers and controls with graphics custom-designed to complement the facility engineers’ operational expectations? These are just two aspects of the Moscone Center’s expansion strategy to stand out and stand up to unusual demands.
Air Monitor has released its OAM II Airflow Measurement System. The company says the system provides reliable airflow measurement without straight duct runs and is accurate when wet.
This design environment keeps moving, but the performance and cost pressures remain. Weigh air-side and water-side economizers carefully: not just one or the other, but the options within each approach.
Modern data centers are evaluated not just on reliability but also on the efficiency of the cooling plant that supports them, so the cost to cool data center space is a key issue that must be addressed during design and system selection.
One of the most important factors in the efficiency of any HVAC system is the selection and implementation of the proper control sequence of operations.