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  • May 22
  • In: General
  • By: Alpesh Mistry
  • Date: May 22, 2014
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GREEN BUILDING 101: Indoor Environmental Quality

Feeling good in our homes or offices isn’t just a matter of having a beautiful space: No matter how fabulous your furnishings, a poorly designed indoor environment can literally make you sick. Building green means considering not only the environmental impact of materials and construction, but ...
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  • May 13
  • In: General
  • By: Alpesh Mistry
  • Date: May 13, 2014
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The history of air conditioning

Sometimes it is useful to think about the history of our industry.  Eighty-five years ago, Willis Carrier gave an interview to a magazine that became today’s, “Heating, Piping and Air Conditioning” magazine. The year was 1929, and commercial air conditioning was essentially celebrating its 2...
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  • Apr 16
  • In: Engineer's Notebook , General
  • By: Lee Wilkins
  • Date: April 16, 2014
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What does a MERV Filter rating mean to me?

One Day, some years ago, I fell asleep and the world changed on me…well, this happens often to me as I’m getting up there in age and the HVAC world evolves. This happened to me on the filter efficiency ratings as one of our younger engineers corrected me on filter efficiency to MERV ratings and ...
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  • Apr 07
  • In: Technology
  • By: Samy Arbid
  • Date: April 7, 2014
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Server Environments: In-House vs Cloud – Revisited

If you were considering moving your small or medium business to the cloud, the last two weeks have been a three-way boxing match between Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. Each announcing significant price drops in their cloud storage prices. Google’s 68% price drop announcement: http://techcrunch.com...
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  • Apr 07
  • In: General
  • By: Lee Wilkins
  • Date: April 7, 2014
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How efficient is your building?

If you’re serious about saving money, conserving energy, reducing water consumption, improving indoor air quality, making better building material choices, and driving innovation, then LEED is the best choice. Bar none. Third-party certification verifies that your project is designed, built and op...
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  • Mar 28
  • In: Controls
  • By: Alan Slabodkin
  • Date: March 28, 2014
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Time for a Leap-frog in HVAC Control System Technology

It’s been 15 years since the last major jump in HVAC control system technology. Back then it was the advent of open protocols that promised to revolutionize the industry. In many ways it did  but in recent years we seem to have been falling back into some of the “old ways”, to the benefit pri...
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  • Mar 24
  • In: Technology
  • By: Samy Arbid
  • Date: March 24, 2014
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SSL Encryption Everywhere

We live in a digital world where almost all communication is done electronically. And more and more, users of “this internet thing” are becoming very educated. Education in this case means 2 things: They ask for more sophisticated ways to communicate (sharing via cloud file storage, i.e. Google ...
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  • Mar 06
  • In: General
  • By: Matt Calabrese
  • Date: March 6, 2014
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Economizers = Free Cooling

              It’s no secret that running air conditioning equipment costs money. In fact, if you operate a typical commercial office building in Southern California, air conditioning comprises 30-40% of your monthly energy bill.  The primary energy users in pac...
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  • Jan 21
  • In: Controls
  • By: Alan Slabodkin
  • Date: January 21, 2014
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Echelon to Introduce and Demonstrate Building Industry’s First Multiprotocol System-on-Chip at 2014 AHR Expo

What: Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ: ELON), the world’s leading control networking platform provider, will introduce and demonstrate at the 2014 AHR Expo its multiprotocol FT 6050 system on chip (SoC), the first to support both LonWorks® and BACnet® protocols over IP on a single chip. The FT 605...
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  • Jan 08
  • In: Technology
  • By: Samy Arbid
  • Date: January 8, 2014
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Server Environments: In-House vs Cloud

By now many of us have probably heard about “the cloud” in one way or another. However, most of us don’t fully understand what it means and the reason is “the cloud” really doesn’t really refer to anything specifically. This article will not only enlighten you on what this mysterious tec...
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