There are two stages of indoor air quality improvement during the warmer season: the spring duct cleaning and the summer HVAC/R system blast.

Al Ward, vice president of Global Sales for Daikin Applied, explains the role of HVAC systems in helping buildings reduce their carbon footprint.

Among the more obvious reasons for the use of round duct on rooftops, such as preventing rain, snow and ice buildup, ease of wind passage is perhaps the most overlooked. PhenoliDuct, a new closed-cell insulated round duct solution from Spiral Pipe of Texas (SPOT), is engineered with all those considerations in mind, plus ease of installation.   

When it comes to ‘green HVAC,’ it doesn’t get more green than copper ductwork. Cobre29 founder and Polar Air Supply owner Jon Bell, with the help of his son, Jeff, is building a network of ‘healthy buildings’ as one of few copper duct producers in the HVAC industry.

Carrier's world headquarters, the UTC Center for Intelligent Buildings, is the first commercial building in Florida to earn Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) Platinum v4 certification. 

enVerid's HLR technology reduces the heating and cooling load of outside air, making its case as a vital addition to any HVAC system. 

ASHRAE announced the winners of its 2018 ASHRAE Student Design Competition and Setty Family Foundation Applied Engineering Challenge. The competitions recognize outstanding student design projects and encourages students to become involved in the design of energy-efficient HVAC systems. 

Mayor Muriel Bowser was presented with the honor by Mahesh Ramanujam, president and CEO of the council, at an event on the steps of Dunbar High School, the highest rated LEED-certified school in the United States.

Registration is now underway for the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers’ 2018 annual conference June 23-27 in Houston.

There are dozens of data center cooling methods. But multitenant, shared location data center operator Involta LLC said it believes its HVAC design team has developed one of the industry’s most efficient concepts.