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HVAC Mechanic Job Description
The HVAC Mechanic job description template includes the following job summary: To operate, maintain, and repair heating, ventilating, and air conditioning equipment necessary for the building's operation. Additional information available includes essential job functions, additional responsibilities, and education and experience requirements.
Tags: Job, HVAC, Recruitment & Selection, Construction, Human Resources, Workforce Management
Tools & templates 2007-09-09
Commissioning of Building HVAC Systems for Improving Energy Performance
The demands of building users regarding the environment are growing. There are increasing requirements for comfortable and healthy indoor environments with no excessive use of natural resources and pollution of the outdoor environment. The heating, ventilation and air conditioning industry seeks solutions to fulfill these requirements. The management of this...
Tags: HVAC, Performance, Environment, Construction
White papers 2004-12-13
HVAC Modeling for Cost of Ownership Assessment in Biotechnology and Drugs Manufacturing
This paper highlights the importance of HVAC Modeling for Cost of Ownership Assessment in Biotechnology and Drugs Manufacturing. Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning HVAC systems used in the clean room environment of biotechnology and drug development and manufacturing, are extremely energy and water intensive and represent a significant operating cost...
Tags: Construction, Manufacturing, Biotechnology, HVAC
White papers 2004-10-10
Protecting Your Property From Flooding: Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning Equipment
Heating, ventilating, and cooling HVAC equipment, such as a furnace or hot water heater, can be damaged extensively if it is inundated by flood waters. The amount of damage will depend partly on the depth of flooding and the amount of time the equipment remains under water. Often, the damage...
Tags: HVAC, Equipment, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Construction
White papers 2004-09-17
10 Things You Should Know About HVAC Refrigerants and the Phase-out Schedule
The age of a building's air conditioning system, the cost to maintain it, and the cost to replace it are all factors to weigh as HCFC refrigerants are phased out. The best preparation for the future is to take an inventory of the types of refrigerants your HVAC systems use,...
Tags: Construction, HVAC
White papers 2004-08-30
Training Spotlight: HVAC Systems
Managers seeking to improve technicians' inspection and troubleshooting skills must make tough decisions related to worker training. Maintenance and engineering managers know that worker training is critical in protecting organizations' investment in facilities. And of all such investments, managers often rank HVAC systems as the most critical area of operation....
Tags: Human Resources, Construction, Workforce Management, Worker, Training, HVAC
White papers 2004-08-01
BMS or PLC? Controlling the Regulated Environment
In the ever-changing world of pharmaceutical facilities delivery, there appears to be a growing interest in the utilization of programmable logic controller PLC technology and process systems to control HVAC applications. Until recently, HVAC equipment and building management systems BMS were thought of primarily as non-impact or indirect impact systems...
Tags: Environment, Advanstar Communications, HVAC, Construction
White papers 2004-08-01
ARI Guideline V - Characterizing the Efficiency of Energy Recovery Ventilation and Informing the Design of HVAC Systems
This document presents a rigorous methodology for determining the efficiency of energy recovery ventilation systems. This is based on the standard calculation of useful energy delivered by a process divided by the energy consumed in that process. To distinguish it from similar calculations of energy efficiency ratio or EER for...
Tags: Construction, HVAC, Energy
White papers 2004-04-08
Reducing Mold Growth in HVAC Equipment
Mold growth in buildings and HVAC systems has been implicated as a contributor to poor Indoor Air Quality IAQ and the so-called Sick Building Syndrome. While HVAC, themselves are not the cause of mold proliferation in buildings, the very nature of HVAC system design and their typical operating limits may...
Tags: Construction, HVAC
White papers 2004-02-04
HVAC Sizing Methodology for Insulated Concrete Homes
This article describes about HVAC sizing methodology for insulated concrete homes. Insulated concrete walls are increasingly being utilized as an alternative to wood frame walls in residential construction. Insulated concrete walls include insulating concrete form ICF walls, cast-in-place insulated concrete walls, insulated precast concrete walls, autoclaved aerated concrete AAC walls,...
Tags: Construction, Energy Efficiency, Wall, HVAC
White papers 2004-02-01
Clever Climate Control
This article briefs about two companies from Sweden and Germany, which met through the IRC network, and are together making 'smarter', smaller HVAC units to meet this growing market. More and more people expect to live and work in comfortable indoor temperatures and clean air all the year round. As...
Tags: Construction, HVAC, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Internet, Climate Control
White papers 2003-11-27
The How and Why of Your High Performance HVAC System
This paper answers a concern, which is often raised by owners of high performance HVAC equipment. It states that when a tight thermal envelope is built, one gets to build in a smaller HVAC system, whether it is a furnace, a A/C compressor, or a air handler (this is basically...
Tags: Construction, Leadership, High-performance, HVAC, Management
White papers 2003-12-01
Acoustics: HVAC Design for Lower Classroom Noise Levels
Creating an acoustically favorable classroom environment requires a properly defined acoustical goal, accurate sound data, acoustical analysis, detailed specifications, and careful construction. HVAC equipment is one critical element to consider during this process. This document explains how HVAC equipment can be located in the classroom itself, near the classroom, or...
Tags: HVAC, Construction, HVAC Equipment
White papers 2003-10-23
HVAC for Schools: How to Purchase an HVAC System That Meets Your School's Unique Requirements and Stays Within Your Budget
The purpose of any school's heating, ventilating, and air conditioning HVAC system is to provide a comfortable, appropriate environment that is productive for the students. To do that, the HVAC system must manage temperature, humidity, indoor air quality, and sound. In addition, the HVAC system has to be cost effective...
Tags: Construction, HVAC
White papers 2003-10-06
Small HVAC Field and Survey Information
This report provides supplemental information to the Integrated Energy Systems: Productivity and Building Science Program's final report within the Integrated Design of Small Commercial HVAC Systems research area. The products and outcomes presented in this report are part of the Integrated Design of Small Commercial HVAC Systems research project. The...
Tags: HVAC, California Energy Commission, Survey, Report, Construction, Marketing Research, Marketing
White papers 2003-10-01
Understanding Open Protocol Standards - How to Leverage LonWorks Technology to Your Advantage
The LonWorks protocol allows HVAC manufacturers to use LonWorks technology as an "automation tool kit" to support device level communication and provides many off-the-shelf products with a high rate of interoperability. Functional profiles created by the LonMark organization provides an additional level of interoperability by defining communication of specific pieces...
Tags: Productivity, LonWorks Protocol, Standards, Construction, HVAC, Profile
White papers 2003-05-01
Appplying the Principles of Six Sigma to HVAC Design
The article is made through the presentation. It discusses the HVAC Life-Cycle costs and its different features. The six-sigma approach is described through its different utilities. The DMAIC process is described and at last the application of six sigma principles for the system improvement.
Tags: Process Improvement, Construction, Quality, Business Operations, It Operations, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Six Sigma, Article, HVAC
White papers 2003-01-01
Benchmarking: The First Step In Reducing Utility Costs
The recent slow down in the domestic economy, coupled with the increase in fossil fuel costs, have given new emphasis to utility costs. Facility managers are becoming increasingly aware of the impact that electric utility deregulation and higher energy prices can have on the bottom line. HVAC energy use is...
Tags: HVAC, Fossil Fuel, Benchmarking, Construction
White papers 2003-01-01
Costs & Benefits of Utilizing Mechanical Dehumidification Systems for Treating Ventilation Air
During the past few years there has literally been an explosion in the HVAC industry of new technologies from companies trying to capitalize on the indoor air quality IAQ dilemma of the 1990's. This paper focuses on tried and true methods of dehumidification that are proven and have been used...
Tags: HVAC, Human Resources, Benefits, Construction
White papers 2002-11-14
Multi-carrier Signal Transmission Through HVAC Ducts: Experimental Results for Channel Capacity
In this paper, experimental results on channel capacity of heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning HVAC ducts based on multi-carrier transmission technique and measured channel frequency responses in the 2.4 GHz Industrial, Scientific, and Medical ISM band is cited. Experiments using actual synthesized signals through a building HVAC duct system demonstrate the...
Tags: Construction, HVAC
White papers 2002-10-19
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