Instrument air and service compressed air — compressed air systems found in health-care facilities — are often an afterthought as they are not considered life safety systems. Yet they are critical in operating rooms and sterile processing areas.

Creating our building codes includes much research and documents from subject matter experts across the building industries. It is important to learn how these different standards affect each other. Read on to discover how the new earthquake protection codes can impact water-based fire protection systems.

Municipalities across the country are moving to new policies to decarbonize buildings. In Part 3 of this series, learn how sanitary waste energy exchange systems (wastewater heat pumps) can increase DHW efficiency and reduce carbon emissions.

Technical Information Report 34 is a standard published by the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation. It details the importance of the sterile processing of medical devices and the effects of poor water quality on these processes. 

An efficient project can save time and money. Coordination efforts during the design phase of the fire protection system can reduce the number of conflicts in the field, keep the project budget in line and construction progress on schedule by minimizing delays.

A geo-exchange system either extracts energy from the ground for heating or pumps it back into the ground for cooling. Energy companies and large construction firms can use this technology to help decarbonize our buildings and remain profitable. BF Nagy describes a few such North American projects in this month’s column.

Ginger Scoggins, P.E., Fellow ASHRAE, took office as the 2023-24 ASHRAE president.

A Call for Abstracts for this highly respected event has been issued and is available for download.

Max Rohr will cover the key criteria to consider when installing heat pump water heaters in new and existing buildings at the next Coffee with Caleffi webinar on Thursday, July 27, from 12 noon – 1:00 p.m. CDT.