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ERVs to the School HVAC Rescue!
In an earlier article, we discussed how schools can take advantage of the American Rescue Plan to retrofit and green up their HVAC systems. (Can the American Rescue Plan Help Public Schools Make the Grade?) As we've pointed out, the best way to achieve healthy Indoor...
Can the American Rescue Plan Help Public Schools Make the Grade?
The American Society of Civil Engineers’ 2021 Infrastructure Report Card gave the United States’ public school building stock (K-12) a D+–the same grade garnered in 2017. With many buildings aging past fifty years, vital facility repairs are many and corrective dollars are often few. With accounts of decay ranging from eroding floors and crumbling walls to HVAC systems that deliver poor ventilation and uncomfortable temperatures, it seems a miracle is in order if we want our public school system to offer a sound, modern education.
Install: Building Performance Engineering for High-Performance Energy Recovery
This install of a BPE-XE-MIR-2000 unit provides 500 to 2,250 cfm of healthy indoor air quality for your commercial or industrial space. With 70% to 95% percent thermal efficiencies, thermal comfort is never in question.
COP26: We must do more.
The United Nations’ COP26 has begun in Glasgow where two hundred countries were invited to present their plans to cut emissions by 2030. With an end date of November 12th, there is much left to consider. Still, people from the highest levels of government down to the average Joe or Josephine have differing opinions on the initiative’s purpose, its progress, and how effective the conversation will be toward keeping the global temperature increase below 2°C—preferably 1.5°C.
Installing a BPE Energy Recovery Ventilator
Not since the 1980s has there been such a desperate cry for ventilation help. Back then, sick building syndrome became a concern thanks to tighter building standards designed to save energy. Suddenly packed into the likes of a sealed milk container, home and building inhabitants began suffering the health effects of recirculating stale air, pollutants, and pathogens. The solution was to add a Dedicated Outdoor Air System (DOAS) to pretty much act as a straw popped into the container!
In-Line Heating and Cooling Solution
One of the tenets of BPE’s philosophy on indoor comfort is customization. Due to floor plans, square footage, occupancy, geographic area (climate), and budget, different spaces may require special consideration for achieving optimal indoor air quality, comfort, and...
Prioritize Cybersecurity Issues While Building the Clean Energy Industry
When an invisible enemy attacked Colonial’s Pipeline’s oil distribution system, your average person on the East Coast noticed. It affected their plans, their budget, their time. Suddenly, people want to know how and why hackers gained access to the central system that digitally monitors pumps, flow, pressure sensors, thermostats, and pretty much everything else. Justifiably, many folks might ask, “Well, why are such sensitive controls not kept offline?”
Homebuilders! Let’s Talk About Millenials!
Remember the push to educate kids on environmental issues and ‘green’ concepts over the last couple of decades? It hasn’t been in vain. Today’s home buyers, particularly millennials (ages 21-38), are keen on keeping a low environmental footprint.
The Beauty of Spiral Ductwork
Installing spiral (round, tubular) ductwork throughout your HVAC system is like discovering that awesome health supplement guaranteed to cure a slew of ills—except tubular ductwork lives up to the hype. Choosing it over rectangular ductwork for medium- and high-pressure systems results in practical, healthy, aesthetic, and financial advantages. In fact, ASHRAE recommends spiral ductwork be used wherever possible.
A Particulate-ly Concerning New Study
We’ve known for years that natural and man-made particulates no larger than ten micrometers can settle in lung tissue to cause discomfort, allergies, asthma, and disease. And if you haven’t heard by now that indoor air can be twice as polluted as outdoor air, you would have to live under a rock, true? Well, here’s something you might not have heard: A new study from the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland claims the harm caused by particulates may be worse—more prevalent–than we thought.