Blog Tag Archives: Mechanical
Reheats Review - Another look at Reheats to Fight Building Humidity
Posted by Stuart Heisey on Friday, June 28, 2024
In 2021, Entech hosted a roundtable webinar bringing together a panel of experts in the fields of facility management, engineering, and mechanical contracting to discuss the challenges and some...
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Categories: Buildings & Campus
Tagged: Mechanical | Engineering | Building Humidity
Controlling Building Humidity Roundtable: Dews & Don'ts
Posted by Entech Engineering on Saturday, August 21, 2021
Humidity can be a fickle thing in buildings, especially ones that have seen their fair share of summers. And seemingly small operational changes can have a disproportionate impact on humidity. ...
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Categories: Buildings & Campus
Tagged: Mechanical | Engineering | Building Humidity
Ceiling Fans: Summertime Savior or Super-Spreader?
Posted by Stuart Heisey on Friday, May 21, 2021
With the warm temperatures arriving in the northeast, you may be thinking about turning on those ceiling or box fans, to bring some much-needed relief. But does that additional air movement and...
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Categories: Buildings & Campus
Tagged: Mechanical | Health & Safety | COVID-19
Maximizing COVID Mitigation Projects on Campus
Posted by Stuart Heisey on Monday, April 26, 2021
Use data-driven strategies to tackle urgent challenges with long-term vision Are you trying to upgrade your spaces to get your students and instructors back to full-time in-person learning...
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Categories: Buildings & Campus
Tagged: Mechanical | Budgeting & Funding | Facility Planning & Management | Engineering | Health & Safety | COVID-19
COVID-19 & HVAC: How to Reduce Your Risks
Posted by Stuart Heisey on Thursday, August 13, 2020
Aerosol spread of COVID-19 has been confirmed by the CDC as a transmission source. There are things that can be done with HVAC systems to reduce risk in occupied spaces. Additionally, every one of...
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Categories: Buildings & Campus
Tagged: Mechanical | Health & Safety | COVID-19
Building Humidity: Issues, Problems, & Causes
Posted by Stuart Heisey on Friday, July 31, 2020
Why is humidity suddenly such a common problem?Are you a building owner or facility manager that has experienced high levels of relative humidity in your buildings or high volumes of complaints about...
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Categories: Buildings & Campus
Tagged: Mechanical | Building Humidity
Preventing Humidity Issues in Vacant Buildings
Posted by Stuart Heisey on Friday, April 3, 2020
During these unprecedented times, schools, offices, restaurants, hotels, and many other businesses and organizations are shut down. One of the biggest questions now faced by facilities staff: what to...
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Categories: Buildings & Campus
Tagged: Mechanical | Engineering | COVID-19 | Building Humidity
Financing Campus Central Utility Energy Projects: Your Goose That Lays Golden Eggs
Posted by Bryan Haag on Thursday, February 4, 2016
It isn’t any secret to facility managers that campus central utility projects can offer quick paybacks and sizeable annual savings for your campus, through energy reductions. Furthermore, those...
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Categories: Buildings & Campus
Tagged: Energy Planning & Management | Environmental | Mechanical | Engineering
Advancing the Condensing Boiler’s Outdoor Linear Reset
Posted by Bryan Haag on Wednesday, March 25, 2015
When it comes to condensing boilers, the lower the water temperature, the more efficiently the system will run, with some systems 96% efficient and above, under optimum conditions. Today’s...
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Categories: Buildings & Campus
Tagged: Energy Planning & Management | Mechanical