Introduction to Water Source Heat Pump Systems Part 2: When and Where to Use Them

Introduction to Water Source Heat Pump Systems Part 2: When and Where to Use Them

Water source heat pump (WSHP) systems can be successfully and advantageously applied in a wide variety of commercial, institutional, and multi-unit residential buildings. The commonality that makes any of these potentially suitable for WSHP design is the need for simultaneous heating and cooling with individualized zone control. But WSHPs can be useful in meeting other requirements….

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ASHRAE Introduces Guide for Reopening Schools

ASHRAE Introduces Guide for Reopening Schools

School is back in (sort of) and the ASHRAE Epidemic Task Force is doing everything it can to help school districts and university campus environmental health managers, facility managers, administrators, technicians, and service providers navigate through these unprecedented circumstances. Most notably….

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Reducing the Transmission of Viruses with Humidification Part 1: Optimum RH Range

Reducing the Transmission of Viruses with Humidification Part 1: Optimum RH Range

Who would have imagined less than a year ago that our collective daily lives would be so greatly impacted by a single, air-borne virus? Yet here we are, recalibrating “normal” in the wake of COVID-19 (SARS- CoV-2). And while social distancing and masks dominate much of the public conversation, building humidification is the….

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