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January 18, 2012 Jennifer Kovacs Silvis, Editor-in-Chief
What do you do with an energy audit report once it's completed? Jim Kelsey, P.E., principal at kW Engineering and a principal author of ASHRAE's recent update to its energy audit guide, answers this and other common energy audit questions.
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July 26, 2011 Timothy Angerame
In today’s difficult economic climate, when financial savings are critical to every institution, healthcare facility managers demand even more from their energy systems.
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June 8, 2011
Applications to enable automated ongoing commissioning for buildings
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May 3, 2011 Fred Jaeckle and Brian Nuehring
The electrical distribution room with UPS system at the Community Health Network data center in Indianapolis.
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April 30, 2011 Richard L. Peck, Contributing Editor and Barbara Horwitz-Bennett, Contributing Editor
If this truly is the Age of Communications, no institution knows it better than the modern healthcare facility. On top of the traditional intense
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April 30, 2011 Barbara Horwitz-Bennett, Contributing Editor
UC Davis Medical Center's new Surgery and Emergency Services Pavilion doubles its treatment space to better serve inland northern California as the region's level I trauma center.
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March 1, 2011 Dan Draper
With an increasing dependency on technology amidst cautious budgets, it's no surprise that Emerson Network Power's recent survey of hospital IT
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March 1, 2011 Richard L. Peck, Contributing Editor and Shannon Powers-Jones, Contributing Editor
It is difficult to believe the sheer complexity of the decision making involved in so mundane-seeming a topic as flooring for healthcare facilities.
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March 1, 2011 Richard L. Peck, Contributing Editor
The idea of commissioning-“test driving” a new building's key operational systems before the official opening-makes intuitive sense. Who wouldn't
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March 1, 2011 Michael Vanden Berg, PE
The replacement of a 60-year-old central plant and aging infrastructure on the campus of a healthcare facility in St. Louis gave the owners the
