At some point in time, most school building committees are given the responsibility to establish a building program to expand their city or town school building assets.
Critical facility HVAC and indoor air management is not all alike! In doing my homework for writing this column on critical facilities, I have been struck by the precision of IAQ monitoring in data centers.
This month, I am continuing my recent exploration of situations where building systems do not pass their commissioning functional performance tests at the end of construction.
To this day, the greatest surprise of my life occurred when I was a young student at Berkeley Junior High. At the year-end assembly, unexpectedly, I heard my name called as they announced the recipient of the Seventh Grade Citizenship Award.
Industry change reveals not just different talents but varying levels of ambition, too.
April 1, 2015
Over time, many if not all employees eventually become comfortable in their work environment. I don’t think this can be helped, be-cause with routine comes contentment.
Last month’s column (February 2015) addressed the potential situation where the design engineers specify a change to a system which has already passed its commissioning functional performance test.