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IAQ / DATA CENTERS
Cutting Costs vs. Creeping Copper:
54 The Data Center Airside Economizer
Conundrum
So Charles
Charle Dickens, Ferris Bueller, a chicken, and a pig walk into an HVAC


article … and try to sort out proper use of outdoor air in data centers. As you
might imagine, it’s not simple. But if you remember these three design abso- LIFE SAFETY
lutes and consider your client’s specific perspective, the resulting efficiencies
might have you singing Wayne Newton at the prospect of repeat business.

— BY KEVIN DICKENS, P.E.

76 Commissioning Fire Alarm Systems
This mont
month, our life safety coverage arrives from the commissioning side. From design
phase to titips on navigating a seemingly untenable number of observations, and on to
post-testing tasks, here’s one consultant’s solid reference to keep you and your client


from getting unnecessarily alarmed.
BIM — BY TIM THATCHER, P.E.

JBA Consulting Engineers Embraces

60 Technology To Power Growth DEPARTMENTS 
Follow on
one firm’s path from committing to BIM to climbing a learning curve in Advertiser Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
using it to
t serve clients, and even on to taking an unusual step to fill what it
sees as a need in the market.
Back2Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Building Automation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
— BY DWAYNE MILLER, P.E., R.C.D.D
Case In Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Commissioning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20


PROJECT TRENDS Editor’s Note. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Third-Party TAB Consulting In Sync Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
64 With Third-Party Commissioning Issues & Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
The people
peop in the industry don’t necessarily make a loud argument for it, but
Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
the results
result often do. How to get this ball rolling, sell it, and see it through from Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
design to occupancy? Look ahead by looking below.
The Facility Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
— BY HOWARD MCKEW, P.E. Tomorrow’s Environment . . . . . . . . . . . 90


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Editor’sNote
BY ROBERT BEVERLY
NEW YEAR,
NEW THINKING
How can the conventional wisdom get a little wiser?

Really, sometimes I don’t know
how you people do it. This month,
Steve Liescheidt raises enough
questions in the span of two paragraphs
about specifying motors to work with
VFDs to make your head spin.
But the start of a new year is the best time
to make some time for that kind of examina-
tion, isn’t it? The holidays are behind us, the
calendar is replaced, and with all 12 of those
pages in front of us, why not take a fresh look
at some thorny issues or nagging inefficien-
cies? I’m not talking about reinventing the
wheel, but perhaps some wheel designs or
manufacturing procedures could use a little
tweaking for a smoother, faster ride.
Factors like association
standards and type of
data center client can
complicate an already
complex assignment.
The last thing to add to
that mix is adherence to
outdated guidance when
it isn’t needed.
This theme emerges throughout our issue
this month. Howie McKew finally gets a
feature platform to lay out his case for third-
party commissioning and third-party TAB
and their proper roles in the project process.
Ghosts of his columns past also pop up upon
reading this month’s “Building Automation”
column by Paul Ehrlich and Ira Goldschmidt
— you’ve seen the idea of investing more in
full-time BAS expertise in these pages before
— but this column breaks down what types
of knowledge might be worth the effort.
This nudging toward next-level perfor-
mance (it might read a little more like a push
sometimes)(OK, perhaps every now and then
it resembles something closer to a shove)
also appears in Kevin Dickens’ article about
IAQ and design parameters for data centers.
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This is an area where factors like association
standards and type of data center client can
complicate an already complex assignment.
In the pursuit of smart performance, the last
thing to add to that mix is adherence to out-
dated guidance when it isn’t needed.
Even our BIM-related feature looks at a
firm who is now embracing the technology
not only as a design tool but an entirely dif-
ferent business opportunity.
I don’t usually spend much of this
space rehashing the issue’s contents, but
my point is: The definitions of some of the
most basic processes and organizations in
this industry remain open to revision and
improvement — if people dare to ask the
right questions and imagine possible solu-
tions. I’m proud that ES can help a few of
those people reach a broader audience.
Speaking of our readership, I had a recent
e-mail exchange with a reader who men-
tioned that he enjoyed the magazine, and
that he agreed with some parts of it, but put
other parts of it to the side. I got the sense he
might’ve been tempted to feel bad about tell-
ing me that, but in my opinion, that’s exactly
the idea. We can’t pretend all of this will be
useful to you, or that you’ll agree with all of it.
In some cases — e.g., the proper approach for
facility BAS personnel — we have intention-
ally provided contradictory opinions.
We’re not here to necessarily tell you The
Way To Do It on all subjects. We do want to
show you how some ideas have worked (or
not worked) for others, complemented by
some knowledgeable, insightful opinions. Get
one decent idea per issue that applies to your
own professional situation, for use either now
or down the road, and we’re happy.
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Beyond these pages, we are also glad to be
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Conference, presented by Carrier. Taking
place at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas, the
event combines keynotes, workshops, and
other opportunities to “rethink, restore,
and regenerate,” as Carrier president Ger-
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this page’s whole top-of-the-year theme,
it’s still a good way to put it.
DRIVING FUTURE COVERAGE
Back to where we started: in his own casual
conversations, Steve Liescheidt got a huge
variety of feedback about what exactly
needed to be addressed in the world of
motors and drives working in harmony.
What areas do you think need the most
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Based on Cx-3 ATC/FPT and TAB-3 software
Refer to the October, November, and December Back2Basics
series for the initial three-part test of K-12 school building energy
retrocommissioning application. This month’s B2B is a continua-
tion of the previous series and will focus on the addition of a dedi-
cated outdoor air system (DOAS) to work in sync with the existing
unit ventilator and individual classroom exhaust system.
Our goal for this B2B series is to provide methodology and
guidelines by which you can increase unit ventilator application/
system performance, save energy, and improve the environment.
As an extension to the previous three-month series, we are going
to focus on the commissioning of the alterations to the existing
unit ventilators now having had direct outdoor air ducted to each
unit ventilator. We will retrocommission this application for the
air conditioning (this month) and heating seasons (March). In
addition, we will complete the testing, adjusting, and balancing
(TAB) airside balancing of the new DOAS at peak supply air
demand in February’s B2B test.
The energy retrocommissioning team consists of the DOAS
design engineer, installing HVAC contractor, retrocommissioning
engineer, TAB engineer, facility operator, and the ATC operator.
As in the past, the energy retrocommissioning team should have
collected three years of utility bills (gas and electricity) for this
facility. Going forward, utility bills, along with sub-metering, will
allow the team to identify the anticipated savings and to begin to
document the ROI. Because the unit ventilators will be electri-
cally powered from various electrical panels, the primary electri-
cal meter monthly readings (kWh and kW demand) will also be
needed to benchmark the overall electrical energy savings for this
energy retrocommissioning application.
DATA COLLECTION
The discussion on auditing of the existing systems was discussed in
the October and November B2B. For this three-part test, the data
collection will be the actual commissioning of the new DOAS instal-
lation along with the air balancing of this system. Water balancing is
required, too, but will not be part of this three-month series.
The retrocommissioned installation now has the following:
• Replacement of all three-way valves and head pressure pump
control with VFDs.
• Addition of direct connected outdoor air two-position air termi-
nals to the unit ventilators. Control is via occupied-unoccupied
cycle along with individual CO2 room detectors and individual
room occupancy sensors.
• Addition of energy recovery water coils with filters upstream of
each coil and their associated exhaust fan.
• DDCs replacing a mixture of antiquated pneumatic controls and
electric/electronic controls with a BACnet BAS and open proto-
col to the city’s BAS computer.
BASIS OF DESIGN DOCUMENT
Referring to “The Facility Files,” this document is the updated HVAC
systems basis of design (BofD) document along with design parameters.
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BY HOWARD MCKEW, P.E., C.P.E.
This month’s test requires the energy retrocommissioning team
to commission the new DOAS installation. While only three
sequences of operation shall be commissioned on page two of this
test, the new system shall have the following sequences of operation:
1. System off – fail safe verification
2. System on – 100% room occupancy and maximum cooling
3. System on – 50% room occupancy and nominal cooling
4. System on – minimum room occupancy and minimum cooling
5. System on – minimum heating (occupied and unoccupied
cycles)
6. System on – nominal heating (occupied and unoccupied cycles)
7. System on – maximum heating (occupied and unoccupied
cycles)
8. Safeties (freeze-stat and smoke)
9. Alarms (dirty filter, no-flow heat recovery system)
10. Energy monitoring and measuring (utility meters, CO2 levels,
energy recovery performance)
11. System on - chiller plant at maximum cooling
12. System on - chiller plant at minimum cooling
13. System on - chiller plant on waterside economizer
14. System on- boiler plantt at minimum heating
The sequences of operation for this month are the first three
sequences of operation on the airside of the HVAC application.
The energy retrocommissioning team shall document the each
sequence of operation on page two of this B2B. The ATC system
will be demonstrated using the functional performance test (FPT)
Cx-3 software, with the reaction device-by-device embedded into
the system flow diagram below the associated device. The HVAC
installing contractor will demonstrate the DOAS installation with
the school’s ATC operator and the retrocommissioning engineer
facilitating the process. Each sequence shall be confirmed via
each control device passing per the specific ATC reaction to con-
firm the DOAS ATC/FPT is operating per the design intent. The
answers can be found at www.esmagazine.com.
When the energy retrocommissioning team has completed the
ATC/FPT process, all failed device reactions will have automati-
cally been inventoried into the Cx-3 software’s corrective action log,
requiring further action by the technician for those failed reactions.
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  Energy Retro-Cx
Month 1- The Energy Conservation Opportunity:
K-12 School Building With New DOAS and
Existing Unit Ventilator System Application

EF-1 EF-Typical EF-Last

CO-1st CO-Typ SH-Typical CO-Last

DE-1 DE-Typ DE-Last

ERC-1 ERC-Typ ERC-Last RT-1st RT-Typical RT-Last

FDP-
F-1 F-1
Last

Exhaust From Associated

Room Unit Ventilator heating coil Note: Each UV to be retrofitted to have
ERSP-1 UV-1st UV-Typ return air damper open 100% and existing UV-Last
ERSWTT cooling coil
ERRWTT outdoor air damper also open 100% to
DOA- DOA-
accept DOA as provided via 2-position air
DOA-
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F-1 ERC- RA RA
D-1 DOAS PHC-1 CC-1 SAF-1
Outdoor Air DOAS Direct Outdoor SD-1
TT-3
OAT TT-1 TT-2 air Supply
VFD

HWP-1
Hot Water Supply from the Boiler

VFD
BAS Computer

CHWP-1

Chiller Water Supply from the Air-Cooled Chiller

VFD

Month 1: Energy Retro-CX Airside Mode: Off-Fail Safe Condition On-100% Occupancy & On-50% Occupancy &
Max Cooling Nominal Cooling
- New ERU and DOAS Application
Status: 1 2 3
Device Tag Description Reaction Status Result Status Result Status Result
BAS BAS Interface Monitoring X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail
Computer Normal power X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail
Emergency power X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail
Alarm indication X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail
Occupied cycle X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail
Unoccupied cycle X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail

D-1 2-Position OA Damper Closed X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail

D-1 Open X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail

SAF-1 SAF-1 Supply Air Fan On X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail

Off X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail
VFD Modulating X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail

F-1 F-1 DOAS Filter Differential Pressure No signal X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail
DOAS Monitoring X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail
High static- dirty filter X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail

UV-1ST 1st Unit Ventilator On X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail

UV-1st Off X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail

UV-LAST Last Unit Ventilator On X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail

UV-Last Off X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail

UV-TYP Typical Unit Ventilator On X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail

UV-Typ Off X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail

CC-1 Cooling Coil With 2-way ATC Closed X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail
CC-1 Valve Open X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail
Modulating X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail

PHC-1 Pre-Heating Coil With 2-way ATC Closed X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail
PHC-1 Valve Open X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail
Modulating X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail

RHC-1 Reheating Coil With 2-way ATC Closed X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail
RHC-1 Valve Open X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail
Modulating X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail

ERC- ERC-DOAS Energy Recovery Coil No flow X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail

DOAS Full flow X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail

CHWP-1 CHW Pump VFD On X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail

CHWP-1
Off X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail
Modulating X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail X Pass/Fail
VFD

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CaseInPoint
Linkage lessens load of damper
installation
 Andy Cummings of Southland Industries has suffered
through his share of cumbersome damper actuator installs.
With over 30 years of experience in the sheet metal industry, he
knows that the process is not only time-consuming, it can yield
disappointing results if the connections are in any way unstable.
Damper blades can become twisted or bent, linkages can bend or
even break, etc. Meanwhile, the last thing a busy design, build, and
maintenance firm like Southland Industries wants is to revisit a
failed installation that was already labor-intensive to begin with.
Unfortunately, the industry has not served up many solutions
for this universally recognized problem; at least not until the
2010 release of the ZG-JSL jackshaft linkage from Belimo.
Cummings and his associates at Southland first learned of the
new jackshaft linkage in 2009. The company was so intrigued by
the possibilities of this revolutionary new connection tool that
they made arrangements to purchase the first 200 pieces Belimo A new jackshift linkage helped Fort Belvoir Hospital save money on
released even though it would be months before the linkages labor costs.
were available.
The ZG-JSL’s release in late 2010 just happened to coincide MINUTES VS. HOURS
with a fast-track military project of Southland’s. The contractor Southland was banking on the durability of the ZG-JSL applica-
had already installed a 20 x 40 bank of dampers (and actuators) tion, but would it be the time-saving solution that the contractor
in the generator room at the new Fort Belvoir military hospital in had hoped for?
Virginia. However, these dampers proved unsatisfactory for the “No doubt about it,” said Cummings, who had the hindsight
generator application because they did not provide the 100% seal of the previously installed dampers and actuators with which to
that the Army Corp of Engineers desired to minimize heat loss compare his experience. The original actuator installation took
from the generator room. Because of this, Southland would have two workers a full week to complete. Installing the actuators on
to remove and replace all of the existing brand new equipment — the new dampers using the Belimo jackshaft linkage took two
pushing the project’s already tight schedule to the limit. men only a day and a half to complete.
It was the perfect opportunity to try out the new Belimo link-
age and see how much time it really saved. Since Southland had
already installed the exact same project using conventional angle Mak keup p aiir is reqquirired
ed for the
plates and rods, it would also provide a perfect apples-to-apples
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part of a jackshaft and allow easy installation of specific Belimo inst
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removal of bearings or the use of ball joints and pushrods to gene
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allows the linkage to be used with any jackshaft from 0.5 to 1 in.
in diameter. An adjustable anti-rotation plate means it can be Cummings g was hesit itantt to use
positioned for a variety of Belimo actuators. standard methodology.
It is a one-piece solution for demanding applications like the
generator plant at Fort Belvoir Hospital, which must be able to
deliver full power to the hospital in just 6 seconds. Makeup air “What would have taken hours, took minutes,” said Cummings.
is required for the hospital generators to leap into action, which The generator room went so smoothly that the same linkages
means the dampers must open rapidly to instantaneously deliver were used to install Belimo actuators throughout the hospital.
up to 100,000 cfm to each of the two generators per room in the While the linkages may cost a bit more, said Cummings, the sav-
plant. Given the challenging application, Cummings was hesitant ings in labor more than offsets the cost. It’s also an investment
to use standard methodology. in serviceability since the linkages make the actuators far more
“When a damper is on the receiving end of 120 volts of power accessible for servicing and replacement, which is important to
like these are, damper blades can easily twist if the actuator is Southland since they set up service contracts for many of the
mounted directly to the blade. These new linkages eliminate that projects they install.
scenario and the associated instability,” said Cummings.

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and industrial sales for Johnson Air Products, echoed that de-
livery and dimensions were “mission critical.” In business since
1948, Johnson Air Products is one of Portland, Oregon’s larg-
est suppliers of commercial and industrial HVAC systems. They
specialize in providing innovative, energy efficient solutions and
knowledgeable application support. Johnson Air Products is the
sales territory rep for two Unison Comfort Technologies busi-
nesses, Innovent® and Valent®.
Glumac, the consulting engineering firm for the project, se-
lected Innovent as the basis of design for the unit under the 747,
which serves the plane body and the two glass stairwells. Upon
entering the body of the plane, waterpark guests choose from
four exciting waterslides which exit the plane, skim the roof line,
and then dip back into the park. They anticipated the conditions
in the waterslide “starthouse” in the plane body would pose ex-
treme challenges to maintaining comfort.

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in order to meet this waterpark’s unusual design challenges.
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 The middle of Oregon’s wine country is an unlikely setting

for the campus of a world-class aviation museum, housing
the Howard Hughes “Spruce Goose” and many historic aircraft.
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roof of a lively waterpark. and adjust anything on that unit.”
Evergreen Wings & Waves Waterpark includes ten waterslides, a
wave pool, and a children’s museum dedicated to teaching students
about the power of water. Its distinguishing architectural feature is The firm’s focus on sustainable engineering also led them to seek
a massive B747-100 aircraft on the top of the building. As anyone an energy efficient solution. As a supplier of custom air-handling
familiar with building construction and mechanical systems might equipment, Innovent offered the design flexibility for an atypical
assume, this posed substantial challenges. A committed team was configuration where the condenser fans exhaust heat out of the rear
able to answer these unique challenges, and Unison™ Comfort of the air handling unit vs. the more traditional top, where the close
Technologies HVAC units were a key part of their solution. proximity of the plane’s body would not allow proper heat rejection.
“Hoffman Construction (the waterpark’s general contractor)
is concerned that everything we do on this campus supports the A UNISON SOLUTION
vision of the foundation, which is to inspire and educate,” said Johnson Air Products provided an Innovent custom AHU and
Ben Wiley, project engineer, Hoffman Construction. two Valent packaged rooftop units, all part of the Unison Com-
fort Technologies product line. Speaking to the advantage of a
UNIQUE CHALLENGES common source for these different types of HVAC solutions, Brey
The unusual demands of this project made close teamwork es- noted the comfort level and confidence that comes from “work-
sential for those responsible for the waterpark’s HVAC units. Hal ing with people you trust, such as Hoffman Construction and
Brey, project manager with Temp-Control Mechanical, notes the Johnson Air Products.” Engineering and rigging the plane onto
importance of an established, trusted working relationship on a its perch atop the building is a story in itself. But installing the
complex project such as this. Innovent unit posed substantial challenges as well.
“To Innovent’s credit, the delivery happened as promised,” Brey said. Brey recounts, “Two-thirds of the building was built up with
This was crucial to the tight construction schedule. Because of the structural steel. Part of the building was left out to provide
the close tolerance of the space, the unit’s height, footprint and a space for the crane to lift the airplane. The plane was then set
airflow also had no margin for error. on top in a careful, painstaking process. Subsequently, our team
“Dimensionally, it was built exactly as it was drawn,” said Hal took the opportunity to bring in the Innovent unit. Working
Brey, “…which doesn’t happen too much anymore these days.” with Hoffman, we were able to get the steel structure for the stair
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low, below the roofline. We set up rigging so that we could move
the unit in on rails.” Brey continued, “Normally that early in a
project, installing HVAC is not critical. But with this project we
would never have been able to do it had we waited any longer. Be-
ing able to meet the commitments that were made was crucial.”
Hoffman’s Wiley underscores this from his general contractor’s
perspective, “The Innovent unit was moved in shortly after the
plane lift. The timing was critical; we had rigging equipment and
mobile cranes onsite. This was definitely not a typical installation.
We had to hit the time slot because we had to build the stairs up to
the plane, so that we could start all the work following that.”
As guests enter the plane, they can view the forward section of
the plane through a glass wall, around which the air distribution
is mounted. Hoffman, Temp-Control Mechanical, and Johnson
Air Products collaborated to devise a ring of special diffusers
which complimented the aviation-themed architecture — an-
other example of the team’s synergy solving design challenges.
ENTER VALENT
As the building planning progressed, the Evergreen leadership be-
gan to envision possibilities to further their mission to inspire and
educate beyond the basic waterpark. They stretched the building
size to incorporate party rooms and a children’s museum.
Glumac selected two Valent VPR 310 packaged rooftop units
to serve these areas, locker rooms, and to provide makeup air for
the waterpark’s kitchen and snack bar. These units are located
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in a mechanical yard behind the facility. True to the educational
mission, there is signage on a window overlooking the yard and
icons on the HVAC and mechanical units explaining their func-
tion to potential future engineers.
THE RESULTS
The waterpark has proven to be a big attraction in the Portland
area and welcomed over 50,000 visitors in the first few months of
operation. From a consulting engineering perspective, Glumac
states that the Innovent unit has performed to the expectations
of their design criteria and that Innovent should be proud of
their role in a uniquely demanding application. Hoffman main-
tains an ongoing presence on the campus and Ben Wiley reports,
“The Innovent unit has performed very well in one of the most
challenging conditions on the project. That unit serves the plane
and the stairwells which are above the roofline. Because it’s the
topmost point in the building, hot, humid air rises up those
stairwells and gets into the plane; that is where guests experience
wait time prior to getting into the slides. So the performance of
that unit is critical to guest comfort. We’ve been here onsite and
only had one time when we had to come in and adjust anything
on that unit, which is quite a testament.”
Looking ahead, future plans include adding a lodge to the
campus to make it even more of a destination. And it’s clear the
team will remain just as committed to creating comfortable and
energy-efficient environments that inspire and educate. ES
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Commissioning
BY REBECCA ELLIS, P.E.

PUBLIC ART GALLERY

AHU Trend Analysis
The $4,000/yr problem was not on display for, or even noticeable
by, visitors and staff.


This column is the continuation of a series in which I
demonstrate examples of systems performance informa-
tion that can be gleaned from trend log analysis. In these
columns, I introduce a system or subsystem, show a trend graph,
and then leave it up to the reader to discover the operational “issue”
illustrated in the graph. The answer will be given at the start of the
subsequent month’s column.

DECEMBER 2011 TREND LOG ANALYSIS

Last month’s trend graph was for an AHU serving a museum’s
below-grade unoccupied art storage vault in a northern climate.
This was a constant volume, single zone system with a mixing
box, chilled water coil, heating hot water reheat coil, humidi-
fier, and supply fan. The museum’s art conservators expected to
maintain 70°F and 40% to 50% rh year round. There was no air-
side economizer, but there was a minimum outside air damper
open at all times.
The trend graph shown in last month’s column indicated that
the control system was doing a great job of maintaining space
temperature at a very steady 70°. The heating hot water coil
pump and the heating hot water valve were called into play for
dehumidification reheat purposes a few times during the 10-day
trend period. Otherwise, the heating hot water valve was fully
closed.
When not dehumidifying, the chilled water valve was modu-
lating between 30% to 40% open to maintain the space tem-
perature setpoint. There was a direct correlation between the
discharge air temperature fluctuation (up and down around an
average of approximately 70°) and the chilled water valve modu-
lation. This all seemed to make sense.
The anomaly, however, was the fact that the mixed air tem-
perature was consistently about 65°, which was 5° lower than the
discharge air temperature. How was the air temperature increasing
from 65° to 70° if the hot water valve was closed and the chilled
water valve was partially open? The fan will always add some
heat to the airstream, but this was not a big enough fan/motor to
account for the greater-than-5° temperature rise illustrated in the
graph. The steam humidifier, although not active during this trend
period, may also have accounted for a slight temperature rise.
The only other potential source of heat between the mixed
air sensor and the discharge air sensor was the heating hot water
valve, and this trend data proved that hot water was leaking past
the closed valve into the heating coil. The chilled water valve
compensated for this failure by opening to remove the excess
heat introduced by the leaking valve. As such, the failure did not
manifest itself in loss of environmental control in the art storage
vault, and no one at the museum was aware of a problem.
Repairing the hot water valve resulted in over $4,000/year in
cooling and heating energy savings by eliminating the unneces-
sary simultaneous heating and cooling.
FIGURE 1.
NEW SYSTEM
This month’s trend graph is from the same museum as last
month’s art storage vault. This is a large constant volume air
handler delivering constant 55° supply air to terminal reheat
coils serving multiple temperature control zones. These tempera-
ture control zones are primarily art galleries open to the public
during the day. The AHU consists of a mixing box with airside
economizer, heating hot water preheat coil, chilled water coil,
humidifier, and supply fan. This trend was created as part of a
retrocommissioning project looking for low cost/no cost energy-
efficiency measures.
TRENDS
The BAS was used to trend the following sensor and device data
at one-minute intervals for a single day in the fall of 2006:
• Return air temperature (brown)
• Outside air temperature (green)
• Mixed air temperature (orange)
• Discharge air temperature (black)
• Discharge air temperature setpoint (purple)
• Chilled water valve signal (blue)
• Heating hot water valve signal (red)
• Outside air damper signal (yellow) ES
Ellis is president of Questions & Solutions
Engineering Inc. (Chaska, MN). E-mail her at
rteesmag@qseng.com.

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BuildingAutomation
BY PAUL EHRLICH, P.E., AND IRA GOLDSCHMIDT, P.E.

IN-HOUSE BAS Expertise

Should your facility step up its staff? Consider these tiers.


A few weeks ago, we received an e-mail from a facility Many
Many y bel
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manager at a large community college asking an intrigu-
ing question about the economics of creating an in-house
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group of BAS technicians. He went on to propose that this could be owne
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similar to an IT group, allowing for the college to find and retain woul
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tafff sh
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department is a challenge and may be the topic of a future column BAS
BA S exexpe
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job
b
or article. But the more interesting question for this month is what
skills should owners look for to better support their building sys- desc
de scriript
ptio
ionn.
tems especially controls and BAS.
There are a series of skills required to properly manage a BAS. • Modify or develop and populate a system graphic or report.
These range from the ability to readily understand mechanical sys- • Add a new controller or integrated system to the BAS.
tems and to use the BAS as a tool for effective building management, • Analyze communications issues.
on to the ability to readily troubleshoot and program these systems.
Many believe that there is a minimal level of BAS expertise that The skills in tiers I and II are essential for any organization
every owner needs on staff; however, we would take this further and to have in house. Those of Tier III are also essential but can be
say that the majority of the facility management staff should have provided either contractually or internally. Why are these skills so
some amount of BAS expertise, depending on their job description. important? Well, controls are a key element in achieving high-per-
These would include: formance building operations, and it is an element that needs to be
applied daily in order to achieve this “high performance.” Providing
Tier I this level of attention has many benefits, including reduced energy
• Familiarity with the BAS: how to access the system and navigate. costs through improved efficiency as well as improved support for
• Ability to utilize system graphics and tables to evaluate the opera- the facility’s mission (including uptime, comfort, and productiv-
tion of key systems including air handlers, VAV boxes, chiller, and ity). ES
boiler plant.
Paul and Ira first worked together on a series
Beyond these skills come those that every advanced technician or of ASHRAE projects including BACnet com-
supervisor should have. mittee and “Guideline 13 – Specifying DDC
Controls.” The formation of Building Intelli-
gence Group provided them the ability to work
Tier II together professionally providing assistance to
• Be able to make setpoint changes (either temporary or permanent) owners with the planning, design and develop-
in response to problem. Examples of setpoints include space tem- ment of Intelligent Building Systems.
peratures, box flow setpoints, schedule start/stop times, and air Building Intelligence Group provides ser-
handler and plant operating parameters. vices for clients worldwide including leading
• Utilize reports and trends to track system operation and identify Universities, Corporations, and Developers.
potential problems. More information can be found at www.build-
• Utilize the system logs (alarms and events) to deal with a of range ingintelligencegroup.com. We also invite you
problems including parameters, communications failures, etc. to contact us directly at paul@buildingin-
telligencegroup.com or ira@buildingintelli-
• Be able to back up and restore controllers.
gencegroup.com.

Finally, there is an advanced set of skills. Tier III skills are skills
which owners may choose to provide in house, or they may rely on
a servicing contractor to assist in providing them. These include:

Tier III
• The ability to troubleshoot and tune a PID loop.
• View, analyze, and modify the programming logic in a controller.

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MONTH 1 - THE ENERGY CONSERVATION OPPORTUNITY:
K-12 School Building with New DOAS and Existing Unit Ventilator System
Application – Basis of Design Document
BASIS OF DESIGN – ORIGINAL 1971
Application: Original design intent – Four-pipe hot water heating and chilled water cooling serving 200,000-sq-ft K-12 school

System Capacity Months On-Line Hours of Operation ATC Controls

Chilled water 650 tons May 1 - Oct. 15 24 hrs/day Three-way valve, fixed CHWS temperature
Hot water 350 bhp Oct. 15 - May 1 24 hrs/day Three-way valve, HWS temperature
Pumps Flow GPM/Unit Pump Head Balancing Valve Motor Pump Flow
Chilled water 1,560 2.4/Ton 95 ft 70% open Original Constant
Hot water 1,200 3.4/bhp 70 ft 70% open Original Constant
Unit Ventilators Total CFM Outdoor Air CFM Hours of Operation Remarks
Through-the-wall 1,200 600 6 a.m. to 7 p.m., 7 days/wk 600 cfm exhaust

Chilled Water Temperatures Hot Water Temperatures Remarks

45˚F CHWS and 55˚ CHWR 190˚ HWS and 170˚ HWR

ENERGY RETROCOMMISSIONING REPORT/RECOMMENDATION/IMPLEMENTATION

New Design Intent – Disconnect existing outdoor air connections to unit ventilators and open the individual unit ventilator outdoor air dampers
to accept the new DOAS connection to provide outdoor air to individual rooms based on room occupancy and CO level within the room. In
2
addition, add water-to-water energy recovery by capturing individual room exhaust energy and transferring the recovered energy to the new
DOAS unit. Energy recovery application is estimated to be approximately 50% efficient with 12-yr ROI.
New DOAS unit shall be 100% outdoor air system with energy recovery coil, preheating coil, cooling and dehumidification coil, supply fan,
and reheat coil for dehumidification sequence of operation. Individual exhaust fans shall have filters and energy recovery coils and shall be in
sync with associated CO control.
2
Supply fan shall operate with VFDs responding to individual room occupancy schedule and CO sensors.
2
All existing three-way valves shall be replaced with two-way valves. Refer to December 2011 B2B for more information.

System Capacity Months On-Line Hours of Operation ATC Controls

Chilled water 650 tons May 1 - Oct. 15 13 hrs/day, 5.5 days/wk Two-way valve, reset CHWS temperature
Hot water 350 bhp Oct. 15 - May 1 13 hrs/day, 7 days/wk Two-way valve, reset HWS temperature
Pumps Flow GPM/Unit Pump Head Balancing Valve Motor Pump Flow
Chilled water 1,560 2.4/Ton 55 ft 100% open High efficiency and VFD Variable flow
Hot water 1,200 3.4/bhp 40 ft 100% open High efficiency and VFD Variable flow
Unit Ventilators Total CFM Outdoor Air CFM Hours of Operation Remarks
Through-the-wall 1,200 Refer to DOAS Individual room occupancy schedule
DOAS Unit ERU Coil Preheat Coil Cooling Coil SAF Fan CFM Reheat Remarks
100% OA 0˚ to 35˚ 0˚ to 60˚ 90˚ to 55˚ 14,000 55˚to 60˚ 10 DOAS units

Chilled Water Temperatures Hot Water Temperatures Remarks

45˚ to 50˚ CHWS and 55˚ to 60˚ CHWR 190˚ to 170˚ HWS and 170˚ to 150˚ HWR

NOTES:
• Final heating and cooling of the individual rooms will be by the unit ventilator serving the room, along with its associated exhaust fan.
• Other considerations could be to eliminate the individual DOAS unit reheat coils and design the individual unit ventilators to do the reheat
within each room based on how the unit ventilators are zones.
• In the dehumidification sequence of operation, space humidistats located throughout the facility will have the capability to reset the DOAS
supply air from 60˚ supply air temperature down to 55˚ temperature to remove excess moisture from the outdoor air. On other occasions,
the DOAS unit may deliver 60˚ to save outdoor energy consumption.

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 COMPILED BY ES STAFF
The activities around the Expo continue to increase, but the miles and miles of exhibit space still sits
in the center of the action. Here’s our annual glimpse at what’s new from the companies who hope
to draw you to their booths this month.

I
n case you weren’t sure, McCormick
Place hasn’t gotten any smaller.
It won’t be any less packed with
equipment and people ready to talk
about that equipment, either. Every year,
we try to help you do a little scouting to
see where you might want to plan a stop
or two along the way. As usual, a bevy of
companies responded to our request to
participate (at no charge) in this article.
Look for their booth numbers below, get
more info at www.ahrexpo.com if you’d
like, and if you see something interesting,
use the summaries they provided below
as springboards for meaningful questions
and conversation.
HEAT EXCHANGERS
Spirax Sarco (#1436) will introduce
its Spirax EasiHeat DHW. This new
heat exchanger, incorporating Spirax
Spirax Sarco (#1436) will introduce its
Spirax EasiHeat DHW.
Intelligent Monitoring System (SIMS)
technology, is a compact, instantaneous
heat transfer package that not only helps
facilities achieve savings, but decreases
waste, mitigates environmental impact,
and helps achieve sustainability goals. This
system enables monitoring, diagnostics,
and status communications. Information
can be accessed in a number of ways:
remotely over the internet, through onsite
communication systems, or via mobile
devices such as SMS text messaging, e-mail
and smart phone applications.
COOLING
LG Electronics USA (#5149) is
showcasing its new Multi V III Variable
Refrigerant Flow (VRF) commercial air
conditioning system for large-scale facilities,
such as commercial office buildings, hotels,
hospitals, and schools. The third-generation
in LG’s popular Multi V series uses innovative
VRF technology that enables improved
energy efficiency by allowing occupants to

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Floored!
LG Electronics USA (#5149) is showcas-
ing its new Multi V III Variable Refriger-
ant Flow (VRF) commercial A/C system
for large-scale facilities.
choose whether to air condition or heat
only the zones in use. The system delivers
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key benefits including an inverter scroll,
compact footprint, AHRI 1230 certification,
and longer piping distances.
The MovinCool CMW30 provides
29,400 Btuh of cooling, designed for
protecting server rooms and other heat-
sensitive equipment. It offers a high sensible
cooling capacity, a 17-IEER rating, variable-
speed inverter compressor, and inverter
fan motors. Additional environmentally
friendly features include R-410A refrigerant
and RoHS compliance. The CMW30 comes
standard with a state-of-the-art, wall-
mounted controller that offers advanced
communications, monitoring, and self-
diagnosis capabilities (#5336).
BOILERS
The new VERSA IC™ fully integrated boiler
control from Raypak is a giant leap beyond
currently available control platforms.
Features include modulating or stage fire
operation, integrated temperature control,
cold water protection, and individual fault
monitoring. The VERSA IC is field upgradable
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and includes Modbus communications port
standard for continuous remote supervision,
trending, and troubleshooting. The control
platform will be phased into all Raypak
DHW and hydronic products during 2012,
starting with XFyre. See the VERSA IC at
booth 5327.
Hydrotherm KN Series condensing cast
iron boilers are available in sizes ranging
from 200 MBh to 3,000 MBh, with ultra-
high efficiencies of up to 99%. KN-Series
boilers feature HeatNet, a proprietary boiler
management system. Environmentally
responsible KN Series boilers are engineered
to provide extremely low CO2 and NOx
emissions — all in a small footprint with
minimal moving parts (#4269).
HeatNet was developed and manufactured
by Mestek Technologies as an
onboard control platform for Hydrotherm
KN Series boilers, RBI Water Heaters,
and Smith Cast Iron Boilers 28HE units.
HeatNet communicates with all types of
boilers including mixed configurations of
condensing, non-condensing, or base load
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Each Data Aire product is custom manufactured and is
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gForce, with its unique combination of ecology and
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applications. Capable of operating boilers as
single units or multi-boiler master/member
networks of up to 16 boilers, HeatNet can
provide constant communication to a
building management system to enable multi-
function control of boilers, pumps, valves,
louvers/dampers, hot water storage tanks, and
outdoor reset (#4569).
Commercial HVAC Filter Products
Showing at the AHR Expo 2012 in Chicago, 3M’s new
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✓ Factory installed gaskets for consistent
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Fulton (#2136) has expanded its line
of popular Vantage series condensing
hydronic boilers to include a 6,000,000
Btuh input model. The new Vantage
6,000,000 Btuh model features thermal
efficiencies up to 99% when firing on
natural gas. The introduction of the
Vantage 6,000,000 Btuh input model
Fulton (#2136) has expanded its line
of popular Vantage series condensing
hydronic boilers to include a 6,000,000
Btuh input model.
into the hydronic heating market creates
opportunities for the reduction of energy
usage and overall environmental impact
of systems with large energy requirements.
The 6,000,000 Btuh model joins Fulton’s
proven product line of Vantage 2,000,000,
3,000,000, and 4,000,000 Btuh units.
WATER HEATERS
RBI Water Heaters will showcase
its expanded product offering, which
includes two new sizes in the Futera XLF
product line. These high-efficiency, near-
condensing, copperfin boilers are now
available in four sizes ranging 2,500 to
4,000 MBtuh with full modulation, a 5:1
turndown, and efficiencies to 88%. The
Futera XLF utilizes HeatNet technology,
an on-board digital monitoring and
control device, which allows for units to
be linked together (or to a BMS) and be
fully integrated into a network of up to 16
individual boilers (#4269).
Lochinvar’s new Strato-Therm+
integrates three appliances into one by
functioning as a solar thermal storage tank,
an indirect water heater, and a buffer tank
for hydronic applications. Strato-Therm+
leverages solar energy as well as the natural
buoyancy of heated water to efficiently
1 stratify the hydronic heating water. This
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and cooling towers through 500 HP. The Z1000 features an easy-to-read LCD keypad that provides
Hand-Off-Auto interface and a real time clock. It also protects against drive and motor faults to
maintain uptime and conforms to the BACnet communication protocol standard.

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HIRE THE PRO.
Goodway RamPro™ –
Faster, easier chiller
tube-cleaning! process results in the hottest water rising to the top of the tank,
which allows domestic hot water to be generated instantly. It also
allows for the space heating system to access the most appropriate
temperature, while the cooler water in the bottom provides
enhanced solar thermal heat generation. Strato-Therm+ is available
ranging from 125 to 900 gal capacities (#6712).

PUMPS
The Patterson Pump Company (#5185) will feature its

FEATURING:
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NEW! EnviroFlo™ horizontal split case pumps, which offer a high-
efficiency design that minimizes energy consumption and provides
easy serviceability without disturbing piping connections.
Designed to deliver energy efficient flows to 6,000 gpm, with heads
to 160 ft tdh, these pumps offer standard case working pressure
at 175 psi with an optional 250 psi is available on select models.
Victaulic (#4135) will highlight its
Advanced Groove System (AGS), which
is the company’s strongest large-
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HUMIDIFIERS
At booth #4410, Nortec will showcase its MH Series evaporative
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s504/ media, which can evaporate more moisture in less depth and
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s./#!342%&2!#4/29 humidification system at booth #4753. The VapaVoid is specially
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limited. Its low profile cabinet includes a steam generator, a steam
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damage and motor downtime. The kit
provides a powerful tool for maintenance
personnel and testing contractors. The
result of a collaboration between Electro
Static Technology (#3717) and Fluke
Corporation (#5344) and available from
both companies, the kit includes a special
replaceable probe tip for highly accurate
voltage readings on rotating equipment.
SENSING AND POWER PRODUCTS
Standex Electronics will feature a
full line-up of fluid sensing and power
products at booth #3771. These products,
which include micro-reed switches, custom
electronic transformers, reed switch-based
fluid level sensors, custom electronic
components, and the custom connections
to make them all work properly and install
easily, are suited for the demanding needs
of the HVAC market.
Tasseron is showcasing the Qwik Mini
with Qwik Connects and tool-less snap-
on covers at booth #3446. The patent
pending Qwik Connect technology
Mold-Resistant, Fiber-Free Duct Insulation
Protects Indoor Air Quality.
Available 25/50 rated in
1-1/2" (R-6) and 2" (R-8)
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the GREENGUARD Environmental Institute. Made in USA. Patented AP Armaflex SA (self-adhesive) Patent pending AP Coilflex. ARMACELL LLC 7600 Oakwood Street Extension, Mebane, NC 27302
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and system controller for solar-powered
A/C applications. The new controller is
designed to work specifically with the
Masterflux Sierra compressor lineup, a
high-efficiency BLDC rotary offering
with a capacity range of 400 to 15,000
Btuh (114 to 4,440 W). The unit features
integrated evaporator and condenser
control, including fault and low voltage
protection, and it also protects electronics
Tasseron is showcasing the Qwik Mini
when used with a solar array so that
with Qwik Connects and tool-less snap-
on covers at booth #3446.
voltage will not exceed the rated values.
completely eliminates wire nuts, will not ROOF CURBS
rattle loose, and are designed to save Thybar Corporation will showcase
time and money on every installation. All its seismic/wind load-rated roof curbs
Qwik Series products come with a 5-yr at booth #4452. These rated curbs will
warranty, and are made from the highest resist the effects of site-specific forces
quality materials. determined according to the requirements
of the International Building Code or
COMPRESSORS other applicable codes. Curb walls are
At booth #5310, Tecumseh Products constructed of heavy gauge galvanized
Company will introduce its newest steel construction, and appropriate wall
addition to the Masterflux product line thickness is determined by project specific
— a Sierra variable-speed compressor analysis of curb wall stresses generated
When it comes to safe, quiet, cost-effective air delivery systems,
it’s what’s inside the duct that counts. That’s where AP Armaflex®
SA and AP Coilflex® elastomeric foam duct liners are the most
effective insulation for protecting Indoor Air Quality.
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 Introducing Raypak’s New

VERSA ICIntegrated Boiler Control

Raypak Leadership in Boiler Management

The new modulating or stage fire VERSA ICTM fully integrates
temperature control, ignition, safety and individual fault
monitoring. Field upgradable. Raypak’s unique Cold Water
Protection control function is now built in; simply add the
appropriate 3-way valve or variable speed pump. A Modbus
communications port is standard for continuous monitoring,
trending, and trouble shooting. This cutting edge VERSA ICTM
control platform will initially be incorporated into Raypak’s
XFyre modulating condensing Hydronic and DHW boilers, and
phased in to all product lines during 2012.

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smart phone to learn more
about the XFyre and Versa IC!

Visit Raypak’s completely new

website! It provides improved
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easier document access and a
fresh look and feel.
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life, without the high maintenance and

Thybar will showcase its seismic/wind
load-rated roof curbs at booth #3446.
by the seismic/wind load acting on the
roof top unit. Seismic/wind load-rated
curbs can be provided in insulated, non-
insulated and vibration isolated styles of
various heights for sloped or flat roofs.
COOLING TOWERS
The TM Series cooling tower from Delta
Cooling Towers (#2820) is available in
250 to 2,000 cooling tons. This engineered
plastic molded tower provides longer
downtime typically associated with
traditional metal towers. Features include:
molded seamless leakproof sump with
I-beam pockets, non-clog large orifice
spray nozzles, double-wall seamless high-
density polyethylene shell, premium
efficient direct-drive fans, and a 15-yr
warranty on tower casing. The modular
design allows various cells to be isolated
if required.
INSULATION
CertainTeed Corporation (#4362)
will introduce its WideWrap™ fiberglass
duct wrap product with 5-ft width.
WideWrap is a foil scrim kraft (FSK)-
faced flexible fiberglass blanket insulation
used to insulate the exterior of rectangular
and round HVAC ductwork to provide
enhanced thermal efficiency that reduces
unwanted heat loss or gain. When
properly installed in the correct thickness,
WideWrap virtually eliminates ductwork
condensation problems that can often
Uponor (#1836) will showcase its Radiant
Rollout™ Mat.
lead to mold and microbial growth. In
addition, WideWrap is GREENGUARD®
Certified, making it suitable for green and
LEED®-focused construction projects.
RADIANT HEATING
Uponor (#1836) will showcase the
Uponor Radiant Rollout™ Mat, a custom-
designed, prefabricated, pre-pressurized
network of crosslinked polyethylene (PEX-
a) tubing for large commercial radiant
heating and cooling applications. The
mat consists of Wirsbo hePEX™ (oxygen
barrier) or Uponor AquaPEX® (non-

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barrier) PEX-a tubing connected with HEAT PUMPS

ProPEX® engineered plastic (EP) fittings,
which are safe for burial in the slab and
offer fast onsite customization when
necessary. The mat can install about eight
times faster than conventional radiant
tubing installation methods, potentially
shaving weeks off an installation schedule.
AIR HANDLERS
McQuay International (#4522) will
feature its new Daikin McQuay Vision
Plus air handler system at the AHR show
in Chicago. This air handler system is for
applications requiring high static pressure,
low leak construction that are typically
encountered when advanced filtration and
energy recovery are required. The Vision
Plus option provides the ability to attain a
maximum of Class 6 leakage at up to +8 in.
of internal static pressure per ASHRAE’s
111 Standard. This new option further
expands the flexibility of the Vision line
and is an optimal solution for applications
requiring increased filtration.
The new Daikin McQuay SmartSource™
water source heat pump (WSHP) product
line will be previewed by McQuay
International during AHR. The new line
of WSHPs comes in a range of sizes and
a breadth of options that include smart
dehumidification, waterside economizers,
and internal electric heat. The SmartSource
platform is geothermal ready, including
an option for factory-mounted loop
water pumps. An optional 10-yr parts
warranty is also available. The SmartSource
inverter WSHP uses Daikin technology to
continuously adjust compressor speeds,
providing ultimate comfort to building
occupants and very high-energy efficiencies.
ClimateMaster (#1910) will feature
its Tranquility Compact (TC) Series heat
pump with a vertical cabinet. Available in
sizes 6 tons through 10 tons with belt-drive
blowers, multiple cabinet configurations,
and efficiencies to meet new ASHRAE ClimateMaster (#1910) will feature its
building standards, the TC Series has an Tranquility Compact (TC) Series heat
extended range refrigerant circuit, capable pump.

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of ground loop applications, ground water
applications, as well as water loop (boiler-
tower) applications. Standard features are
microprocessor controls, galvanized steel
cabinet, epoxy powder coat painted front
access panels, galvanized steel with epoxy
powder coat painted drain pan, and TXV
refrigerant metering devices.
PACKAGED SYSTEMS
Harsco Industrial, Patterson-
Kelley’s new fabricated system is meant
to provide customers with limited risk
while locking in outstanding performance.
All of the system components — from
pumps to controls to piping — are
engineered to work together and factory
skid-mounted to produce superior
performance in the field. Combining
space heating and domestic hot water in
a completely integrated package, these
modular skids can fit through a 36-in.
doorway. They can be positioned and
joined end-to-end, side-by-side, or even in
an “L” or “T” shape. Fabricated systems can
Harsco Industrial, Patterson-Kelley’s
new fabricated system will debut at
booth #2810.
be installed virtually anywhere, requiring
only a single-point electrical connection
and connection to utilities (#2810).
ENERGY MANAGEMENT / BAS
AspectFT-Nexus™ from American
Auto-Matrix® (#3410) combines
building integration and energy control
with mainstream technology. Energy data
reports can be emailed to your home, a
scheduled meeting adjusts the temperature
of the meeting room, and your building
can detect when you have left and turn
off the lights, all through conventional
automation. AspectFT utilizes web
applications such as Microsoft® Outlook®
2007, Apple® iCal®, Google Calendar™,
Twitter™, Google Latitude™, and RSS
feeds to accomplish these tasks and more.
Innotech Control Systems
(#3857) has released ATOM V2.0. ATOM
is Innotech’s acquisition and total
optimization management solution for
building services such as electrical, water,
gas, and thermal energy. ATOM ensures
early detection of system inefficiencies,
creates ongoing savings, and helps reduce
your total carbon footprint.
FieldServer Technologies (#3625)
is demonstrating its full range of products
at the AHR Expo Featured this year is
the new QuickServer, a cost-effective,
fully configurable, powerful gateway that
incorporates the power of FieldServer
backed by the proven FieldServer Technical
Support Team. QuickServer can utilize any
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 THE MOST RADICAL FIRETUBE
BOILER IN THE WORLD
DESERVES A LITTLE PIZZAZZ.
Introducing the new CBEX
When we decided to revolutionize the firetube, we challenged ourselves to build a completely new system
from the ground up. Our new EX technology is at the heart of a whole new way to experience efficiency.
We optimized the tubes for better heat transfer. We optimized the geometry of the furnace for near-perfect
combustion. Then we integrated the burner and the controls. Every core component has been designed
and built to work together, resulting in the most fuel-efficient and lowest-emissions firetube system ever.
Visit cleaverbrooks.com/EX or call 1.800.250.5883.

Be sure to stop by booth #4546 at the 2012 AHR Expo

to see the new CBEX Firetube system and discover how we’ve changed the game – again.

WHAT MAKES THE CBEX DIFFERENT FROM ANY OTHER BOILER IN THE WORLD?

Lighter Weight and Extended Pressure Highest Fuel Efficiency Lowest Possible NOx Quick Steam Up
Smaller Footprint Vessel Life resulting Maintains 3% 02 across can attain sub-5 ppm is 20% faster than
achieved through less from uniform furnace a 10:1 turndown range, without Selective traditional firetubes, due
heating surface for the temperature and achieving the highest Catalytic Reduction (SCR) to smaller footprint and
same BTU output as reduced turnaround gas operating efficiency of on select models. lower water volume.
traditional firetubes. On temperature. Industry- any firetube.
average, has a 15% leading 15-year pressure
smaller footprint and vessel limited warranty.
weighs 20% less than
traditional boilers.

©2012 Cleaver-Brooks, Inc.

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the extensive FieldServer driver library. Also featured this year

is the upgraded FS-B35 Series FieldServer, bringing together the
powerful FieldServer driver library with the latest in gateway
design. Upgrades include a new processing system, multiple ports,
and features that range from COV.

PIPING
Metraflex (#4246) now offers Revit files for virtually all of its
engineered piping products, including seismic joints, expansion
joints, valves, compensators, strainers, pipe guides, air vents, and
more. With features and important
information embedded in the files,
Metraflex Revit files help engineers
ensure the right products will
be specified and installed in the
engineered piping system. For your
free files, visit Metraflex.com/revit.
Metraflex (#4246) is offering
Revit files for virtually all of its
engineered piping products.

SENSORS
An integrated CO2 sensor joins the list of sensing options available
in KMC’s popular FlexStat, an integrated BACnet advanced
application controller and sensor. The device has been available
with temperature, humidity, and occupancy sensors. Newly
introduced models of FlexStat add CO2 sensors and demand
control ventilation sequences. Like other built-in programming,
the DCV sequences are available directly through the device menu
— no PC or software is needed for set-up. When using applications
with a modulating economizer option, the three types of DCV
configurations are available (#3735).
Honeywell Analytics (#3810) introduces the IAQPoint2,
a touchscreen, customizable monitor with ability to control
three IAQ parameters (CO2, VOCs, temperature and humidity).
The unit boosts energy efficiency, fresh air comfort, and the
alertness and performance of building occupants through its
on-demand ventilation activation, with relays triggering fans
locally or via a BAS.

FILTRATION
The National Air Filtration Association (NAFA, #1227)
has released the new third edition of its Installation, Operation and
Maintenance of Air Filtration Systems. The new text has two new
chapters, along with updates and revisions throughout the book
so that your technicians will have the latest
information on best practice in air filtration
service. This text will be the new text for the
NAFA Certified Technician program beginning
after April 2012. To get your copy, go to www.
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The National Air Filtration Association (NAFA,

#1227) has released the new third edition of
its Installation, Operation and Maintenance
of Air Filtration Systems.

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Transducers Conserves Rinse Water
The new ACR PowerBullet is a power
and energy transducer designed for
• Automatic Self-Cleaning
monitoring demand and consumption in
• Line Pressure Powered
residential, commercial and industrial ap-
• Screens down to 10 microns
plications. The outputs of this line-pow-
• 1 inch to 20 inch line sizes
ered, phase-to-phase unit are compatible
• Single Unit flow rates to 12,000 gpm
with the Voltage and Pulse inputs of most
measurement systems.
Orival, Inc.
ACR Systems, Inc. 201-568-3311 • FAX 201-568-1916
1-800-663-7845 800-567-9767 filters@orival.com
www.acrsystems.com
sales@acrsystems.com
WWW.ORIVAL.COM

CIRCLE NO. 803 / BOOTH NO. 3815 CIRCLE NO. 853 CIRCLE NO. 832 / BOOTH NO. 6440

CIRCLE NO. 821

HUMIDITY CONTROL FOR INDOOR

POOLS — THE PERFECT BALANCE OF WATER
& AIR IN ONE SIMPLE PACKAGED SOLUTION
FOR POOL ROOM DEHUMIDIFICATION
Environmental Pool Systems announces our new www.forstafilters.com
WR series with Hot Water Reheat. Lower head info@forstafilters.com
pressures, colder evaporators and 16-21% high 1-888-9-FORSTA
latent capacities provides major reduction in service
and maintenance costs for pool room dehumidifica- • Ideal for Equipment Protection CIRCLE NO. 846
tion systems. Along with the new WR Series, EPS • Stainless Steel Construction
continues to build our standard systems and the • Backwash will not Disrupt System Flow
only company to build DRY-AIR geothermal open/ • Filtration Grades from 5μ to 5,000μ
closed loop systems. Our turnkey packages include • Flow Rates from 15gpm to 8,000gpm
engineering, building design guidelines, air delivery design and more. Visit us at
our new website www.dry-air.com or call 800-514-7051
CIRCLE NO. 815 CIRCLE NO. 820
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ACR SmartReader Plus 2 – 4 Channel

Temperature and Relative Humidity
Data Logger with 10
Year Battery
The SmartReader Plus 2 is a self-contained data
logger that can monitor and record temperature
and relative humidity - right out of the box. The
on-board RH sensor is temperature compensat-
ed, permitting reliable, worry-free RH readings.
For remote sensing of temperature and RH, sim-
ply attach ACR's temperature/RH probe, or for
remote temperature sensing, attach ACR's thermistor probe.

ACR Systems, Inc. www.acrsystems.com

1-800-663-7845 sales@acrsystems.com
CIRCLE NO. 804 / BOOTH NO.3815

UNILUX ADVANCED
MANUFACTURING, LLC
Energy Efficient Heater
The unique UNILUX 5 pass flexible water tube boiler design is simply the finest in its Cambridge Blow-Thru® Space Heaters save
class. With standard operating efficiencies at 85% and a standard 20-year warranty energy and improve indoor air quality.
against thermal shock damage, UNILUX provides a built-in savings/insurance policy Direct-fired Blow-Thru Heaters with
with every boiler we manufacture. Size range from 20 BHP to 2000 BHP offers proprietary Cambridge burners of-
maximum application flexibility. fer 100% combustion efficiency, are
• Boilers available as factory packaged or field erected. ASHRAE 90.1 compliant and can qual-
• Outdoor installation? UNILUX has you covered. Custom enclosures a specialty. ify for EPAct Federal Tax benefits. Energy
• Highest quality. modeling and utility bills document 40%
• Fast delivery. to 70% energy savings. Applications include
Old enough to know more, young enough to do more. warehouses, manufacturing plants, parking ga-
rages, automobile service areas, indoor sports facilities,
UNILUX ADVANCED MANUFACTURING, LLC. aircraft hangars and other buildings with large open spaces.
TEL: 518-344-7490 Cambridge Engineering, Inc.
FAX: 518-344-7495 Chesterfield, MO
www.uniluxam.com www.cambridge-eng.com
800-899-1989 CIRCLE NO. 808
CIRCLE NO. 855 / BOOTH NO. 4173

Easy and Affordable Combustible Gas

POLYPROPYLENE FANS & BLOWERS
Quality and Reliable Systems for over 40 years worldwide
Applications:
• Chemical Hoods
• Waste Water Treatment
• Odor Control Equipment
• Industrial Washers Exhaust
• Chemical Storage Cabinets
Features:
• All Polypropylene Construction
• Seamless, High Density Housing
• 20 to 4,500 CFM, up to 12Ý SP
• Ease of Installation
• Low Noise Level
• Innovative Design
Leak Detection from TPI
The TPI 719 is easily operated with one hand. Gas leaks (30 ppm
methane and/or equivalent) are pinpointed using audio and visual
alarms. Adjustable “tic” rate offers ability to eliminate bothersome
background gases in contaminated environments. Leak checks
should be done before and after all service work involving gas fired
equipment. Learn more about the TPI 719, $99.95 limited time
price, and other gas detection instruments at www.testproductsintl.
com, or 1-800-368-5719.

Test Products International (TPI), 800-368-5719

www.testproductsintl.com

CIRCLE NO. 854 / BOOTH NO. 5727

JET Series In-Line or Laboratory Hood Airflow PLASTEC Series

Roof Curb Fan Monitors/ Control Centrifugal Blowers
Hydra-Zorb TRH Hanger System
Hydra-Zorb Co. has introduced their new TRH Hang-
er system for supporting a pair of insulated liquid and
suction lines. The hanger can be fitted or adjusted in
seconds and can also be used to secure lines to flat
surfaces. Designed for 5/16” and 3/8” rod. Hydra-
Zorb has been the leader in the strut-mounted clamp
STORM Series PSS Series market since 1966, offering a wide variety of solutions
STORM Series developed for low All 316 Stainless to shock, vibration and corrosion problems.
volume, and high Static Pressure Steel Construction
applications Call (248) 373-5151 or
visit www.hydra-zorb.com.

PLASTEC VENTILATION, INC., Bradenton, FL

Phone: (941) 751-7596 • Fax: (941) 751-7598 • www.plastecvent.net

CIRCLE NO. 836 / BOOTH NO. 6340 CIRCLE NO. 822 / BOOTH NO. 4771
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Cemline Corporation Plate Water
Heaters (BPH/PFH)
The BPH/PFH are a perfect solution for producing
domestic hot water heated by condensing hydronic
boilers. The BPH uses a brazed plate heat exchang-
er, while the PFH uses a plate and frame heat ex-
changer. The BPH/PFH heat exchanger allows the
boilers to operate more efficiently by lowering the re-
turn temperature of the boiler water to the hydronic
boiler than the traditional u-bend heat exchanger.
Finally, the condensing boiler can be operated at
lower temperatures still producing hot domestic wa-
ter. Cemline Plate Heaters (BPH/PFH) are completely
packaged and ready for use.
Cemline Corporation, Cheswick, PA.
www.cemline.com, 1-800-245-6268
CIRCLE NO. 809 / BOOTH NO. 2839
QuickServer Building Automation
Gateway from FieldServer Technologies
QuickServer a high-performance, fully-configurable
gateway packs the proven power of FieldServer into
a cost-effective package for the building automation
industry. It includes the robust FieldServer protocol
conversion software backed by the trusted, knowl-
edgeable FieldServer support team that integrators
have come to trust.
• Interface up to 250 points
• BACnet, LonWorks, Metasys by JCI, Modbus, SNMP
• BTL Marked
FieldServer Technologies
408-262-2299
www.fieldserver.com/QuickServer/
CIRCLE NO. 819 / BOOTH NO. 3625
3
Condensate Return, Boiler Feed,
Vacuum Return Systems
Bulletin HP-1 covers custom-built condensate re-
turn, as well as complete boiler feed systems. Sev-
eral 2’ NPSHR pumps available as standard selec-
tions. Three series of vacuum return or boiler feed
can accommodate special space requirements.
Our industry leading standard ratings range from
5 C.F.M. to 150 C.F.M. Also shown the multi-stage
condensate, or boiler feed systems, which can ac-
commodate discharge pressure to 250 PSI.
Skidmore, Benton Harbor, MI
www.skidmorepump.com
CIRCLE NO. 848
Bradford White’s Ultra-Efficient, Eco
Friendly eF Series® Line Continues to
Grow
Bradford White’s eF Series® commercial water heat-
ers offer incredible delivery and super fast recovery.
They are the perfect choice for building managers
and business owners that want to “Go Green”. Eco-
Friendly eF models offer remarkable efficiency ratings
– as high as 99.1%! The newest model, a 100 - gal-
lon, 399,999 BTU/Hr gives you the highest output with
521-gallons of hot water in the first hour of use. Other
models include 60-gallon capacities with 125,000,
150,000 and 199,999 BTU’s and in 100-gallon ca-
pacities with 150,000, 199,999, 250,000, 300,000 and
399,999 BTU’s.
Bradford White, Ambler, PA
www.bradfordwhite.com
CIRCLE NO. 807 / BOOTH NO. 2624
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Unique New Integrated Boiler Control New: Raypak Website Update
From Raypak
The new modulating or stage fire VERSA Raypak is pleased to announce the
IC™ fully integrates temperature control, ig- availability of its’ new, modernized
nition, safety and individual fault monitoring. website, launched November 1, 2011.
Field upgradable. Raypak’s unique Cold During November we’ve been Beta
Water Protection control function is now built Testing the website with our sales force.
in; simply add the appropriate 3-way valve or We had some excellent, constructive
variable speed pump. A Modbus communi- feedback that has been incorporated.
cations port is standard for continuous moni- To insure continuity over the last sixty
toring, trending, and trouble shooting. This cutting edge VERSA IC™ control platform years of product innovation, the previ-
will initially be incorporated into Raypak’s XFyre modulating condensing Hydronic and ous “Document Library” is still acces-
DHW boilers by December 2011, and phased in to all product lines during 2012. sible by link. General feedback from
our reps and customers has been extremely positive.
Please contact your local Raypak Rep, or visit www.raypak.com
Check it out at www.raypak.com
CIRCLE NO. 837 / BOOTH NO. 5327 CIRCLE NO. 840 / BOOTH NO. 5327

Raypak Announces a New Buffer Tank Professional Atmospheric

Application and Sizing Guide
High recovery boilers may need buffer tanks
when unusually small zones are in the system
design. These tanks seldom exceed 40 - 140
gallons. Our sizing formulas consider minimum
loop loads and retain the nimble response of
Raypak boilers. Adding system volume with
separate buffer tanks retains the boilers ability to
shut down during low demand, with no short cy-
cling. Minimal vent losses explain why Raypak
high recovery boilers afford ultimate seasonal
efficiency. 5 standard sizes, 40 – 139 gallons.
Visit the Raypak website at www.raypak.com.
CIRCLE NO. 838 / BOOTH NO. 5327
Digital Gas Heater
Raypak is pleased to announce our new line Pro-
fessional Series gas fired pool heaters. Created
specifically for smaller commercial properties
and high-end residential pools where esthetics
and durability are key. With its abundant use
of stainless steel inside and out, it’s perfect for
tough coastal weather conditions where salt air
is a problem. Offered in two model sizes, a 268
with 266,000 Mbtu input, and a 408 with 399
Mbtu input. All waterways are nonferrous with
cupro-nickel tubes, and bronze headers. Stan-
dard with ASME certification. Also included is a
pre-wired flow switch and T&P.
For more information visit our website at www.raypak.com.
CIRCLE NO. 841 / BOOTH NO. 5327

Raypak Water Heaters/Hot Water Temp-Tracker Mod+ Hybrid With

Supply Boilers Verified Low Lead Optional BACnet® BMS Link
Since January, all Raypak products manu-
factured to heat potable water have been The Hybrid control concept affords more opportu-
verified by an accredited third party test- nities to stay within budget guidelines, while main-
ing agency (CSA) to meet new low lead taining the total benefits of the condensing design.
requirements, pursuant to California For new and replacement installations as well as
AB1953. A weighted average maximum additions and retrofits, Raypak’s TempTracker
of 0.25% lead content for all wetted Mod+ Hybrid control is capable of integrating
surfaces where the water may be used all Raypak and most other major boiler platforms.
for human consumption is incorporated, with verification decals, into every Ray- There can be a mix of stage-fire and modulation,
pak water heater/hot water supply boiler sold in California after January 1, 2010. condensing and non-condensing, all with the new
Similar low lead requirements are also the law in Vermont. History has shown that optional BACnet® BMS link. Can be used on existing and retro-fit installations.
other states follow California’s lead. Federal Statues requiring the same lowered
lead levels will go into effect in just over two years. Visit the Raypak website at See the video at our website at
www.raypak.com. www.raypak.com
CIRCLE NO. 839 / BOOTH NO. 5327 CIRCLE NO. 842 / BOOTH NO. 5327

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6 Show Product Guide
ONICON F-3500 Insertion
Electromagnetic Flow Meter
ONICON’s F-3500 Insertion Electromagnetic Flow Meter
is engineered to excel in demanding water flow measure-
ment applications. With no moving parts, the F-3500 is
reliable even in challenging open loop applications. The
hand insertable hot tap design provides quick, easy in-
stallation, and every meter is individually wet calibrated
to N.I.S.T. traceable standards, programmed for your ap-
plication, and accurate to within 1% of rate.
Contact ONICON Incorporated at 727-447-6140 or
www.onicon.com for more information.
CIRCLE NO. 828 / BOOTH NO. 3429
ONICON F-5000 Series Thermal
Mass Flow Meter
ONICON’s F-5000 Series Thermal Mass Flow Meters provide ac-
curate mass flow measurement of natural gas, compressed air
and other industrial gases. The proprietary sensor design mea-
sures mass flow directly and does not require additional pressure
or temperature compensation to deliver accurate flow data. Both
the inline and insertion versions are provided with a bright, easy-
to-read multifunction display, and both include a 4-20 mA output
for flow rate, and a separate pulse output for totalizing flow.
Contact ONICON Incorporated at 727-447-6140 or
www.onicon.com for more information.
CIRCLE NO. 829 / BOOTH NO. 3429
Flash Economizer Continuous
Blowdown Heat Recovery System
Brochure F-1.25
Penn Separator’s newly designed brochure F-1.25 describes our
highly efficient Flash Economizer Heat Recovery System. The
new brochure is complete with specification, installation and siz-
ing chart information. This efficient heat recovery system recov-
ers up to 90% of all BTU’s and pays for itself in less than six
months. Call us at 1(888) PENNSEP for the nearest representa-
tive or visit our website at: www.pennseparator.com.
Penn Separator Corporation, Brookville, PA
CIRCLE NO. 835
ACR TRH-1000 Temperature and
Relative Humidity Data Logger with
5 Year Battery
ACR’s TRH-1000 is an economical and easy-to-use
temperature and relative humidity data logger. With
its precision calibrated internal temperature and rela-
tive humidity sensor, simply place the logger in the
field to record. Once the desired information has
been recorded, view the collected data with the in-
cluded TrendReader® Express software.
ACR Systems, Inc. www.acrsystems.com
1-800-663-7845 sales@acrsystems.com
CIRCLE NO. 805 / BOOTH NO. 3815
ONICON System-10 BTU Meter
ONICON’s System-10 BTU Meter is a highly accurate
microprocessor-based instrument designed to provide
energy, flow and temperature data via the front panel LCD
and optional serial/analog outputs. It is the ideal choice for
networking to building control systems via BACnet®, LON-
WORKS®, MODBUS®, Siemens P1 and Johnson N2 pro-
tocols. Differential temperature accuracy is within ± 0.15°F
over the calibrated range.
Contact ONICON Incorporated at
727-447-6140 or www.onicon.com for
more information.
CIRCLE NO. 830 / BOOTH NO. 3429
ONICON F-4000 Series Flow Meter
ONICON’s F-4000 Series Clamp-on Ultrasonic Flow
Meters offer an ideal solution for measuring liquid flow
in existing systems when it is impractical to install hot
tap insertion style flow meters. Utilizing the differen-
tial transit-time measurement approach combined
with proprietary algorithms, each meter is delivered
fully programmed for a specific application and of-
fers 1-2% of rate accuracy. Optional N.I.S.T. traceable
calibration is also available.
Contact ONICON Incorporated at
727-447-6140 or www.onicon.com
for more information.
CIRCLE NO. 831 / BOOTH NO. 3429
Energy-Saving EC Powered Fans
From Fantech
Fantech's EC powered fans give you a new
choice in energy-efficient ventilation. EC fans
consume 30-50% less energy than AC fans.
Choose from a series of Inline Fans (FG-EC) or
Roof/Wall Ventilators (DDU-EC). Inline fans are
available in duct sizes from 6" to 12" and are
Energy Star qualified. The new EC Roof/Wall
Ventilators are available in 10" to 18" and are
ideal for applications requiring demand control
ventilation. An exclusive modular controller is
included with all DDU-EC Series fans. UL 705 and UL762 Listed.
Fantech, Inc.
www.fantech.net
800-747-1762 CIRCLE NO. 818 / BOOTH NO. 6146
Parker Condensing Series
205 TC Hot Water Boilers
Parker Boiler, now offers its TC Series of Condensing Hot Wa-
ter Boilers. The Boiler is available in sizes from 399,000 up
to 5,443,000 BTU Input with stainless steel construction for
resistance to corrosion at low operating temperatures. This
offering is a proven European design built for extremely high
efficiency. Efficiencies to 99.7% have been witnessed and
verified by a Nationally Recognized Test Lab. The units are
available with conventional gas burners or Low NOx power
type burners. The units are ETL Listed as complete “Gas
Fired Boiler Assemblies” per UL 795. Units under 2.0 MM
BTUH input completing SCAQMD 1146.2 certification.
PARKER BOILER CO.
5930 Bandini Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90040
Ph. (323) 727-9800 Fax (323) 722-2848
CIRCLE NO. 833
www.parkerboiler.com sales@parkerboiler.com BOOTH NO. 1757
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NO-CLOG DRYER DUCT BOOSTER® ECONOMICAL ROOFTOP DRAFT

IMPROVES EFFICIENCY & SAFETY INDUCERS SAVE ENERGY WITH
Tjernlund’s residential capacity Dryer Duct Booster® is (COP) CONTROL
ideal for restrictive or long dryer exhaust duct runs over Up to 30% cheaper than competitors, RT-
25 equivalent feet. Saves energy by reducing drying times Series rooftop inducers for gas, oil, solid
up to 50%. Reduces lint build-up, dust and fire hazard fuel & general ventilation keep the entire
potential. The Dryer Duct Booster® maintains proper ve- vent system under a negative pressure.
locity in duct runs up to 100 equivalent feet. It features the Now available with the Constant Operat-
Lint Blitzer™ material handling blower wheel and a 5 year ing Pressure Control (COP) which enables
no-clog guarantee. Plugs into standard 115 VAC outlet the inducer to maintain a user set system
and is automatically activated by clothes dryer. 50 watt, pressure by modulating the inducer motor
permanently lubricated motor is not exposed to heat, lint speed to meet fluctuating draft and exhaust demands while reducing inducer motor
or moisture. power consumption by up to 70%. Self-cleaning backward inclined impeller repels
soot build-up and patented auxiliary cooling system protects motor from excessive
Tjernlund Products, Inc. • 800-255-4208 heat. Includes mounting kit for metal & tile flues.
www.tjernlund.com Tjernlund Products, Inc. • 800-255-4208 • www.tjernlund.com
CIRCLE NO. 850 / BOOTH NO. 4022 CIRCLE NO. 852 / BOOTH NO. 4022

RADON VAC™ SIDE WALL RADON ENHANCE PERFORMANCE OF DUCTLESS

EXHAUST SYSTEM REDUCES MATERIAL
& LABOR COSTS
The effective, affordable way to reduce radon
levels in existing homes by side wall venting. The
Radon Vac™ eliminates intrusive PVC pipe runs
vertically through living areas or ugly PVC runs on
home exterior. Engineered to reduce radon across
a variety of sub-slab soil types (dirt, gravel, etc.). It
features a sealed, galvanized housing and a PSC
permanently lubricated, quiet, low watt motor. The corrosion-proof Radon Vac™ Vari-
able Aspiration Control Hood dilutes the radon gas with infused outdoor air and propels it
away from the home. Airflow velocity is easily adjustable at the hood to accommodate the
length of pipe run and extraction point from a sump pit or below basement floor. Typically
installed between floor joists it only requires a 4” hole through basement rim joist.
Tjernlund Products, Inc. • 800-255-4208 • www.tjernlund.com
CIRCLE NO. 851 / BOOTH NO. 4022
HEATING/COOLING, PTAC & STOVES /
FIREPLACES
Ultra quiet, AireShare™ Room-to-Room & Level-to-
Level ventilators transfer heated/cooled air through in-
terior walls/floors to uncomfortable rooms. Move air to
rooms that are not directly served by ductless heating/
cooling, split system, PTAC & window A/C units. Also
great for electric baseboard, stoves & fireplaces. All
models move air up or down for application flexibility.
Helps to destratify stagnant air and improve ventilation
rates inside home for greater comfort. Hardwire and
Plug-in versions.
Tjernlund Products, Inc. • 800-255-4208
www.tjernlund.com
CIRCLE NO. 853 / BOOTH NO. 4022

CIRCLE NO. 823/BOOTH NO.4771

www.MONSTERDRY.com
www.MONSTERDRY.com
www.MONSTERDRY.com
www.MONSTERDRY.com
www.MONSTERDRY.com
CIRCLE NO. 816 CIRCLE NO. 817
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Hydrotherm KN Series Condensing Smith Offers HeatNet on

Cast Iron Boilers 28HE RTS Boilers
Hydrotherm KN boilers are available in sizes ranging Smith Cast Iron Boilers now offers the HeatNet Integrated
from 200 MBH to 3000 MBH with ultra high efficien- boiler control platform designed to provide Series 28HE RTS
cies of up to 99%. KN boilers feature HeatNet, an boilers with a state-of-the-art boiler management system.
on board proprietary control platform that constantly HeatNet utilizes digital communication to monitor multiple
monitors and adjusts boiler performance for maxi- system demands and regulate boiler firing rates to maxi-
mum efficiency. HeatNet can network up to 16 boilers mize the efficiency of any application including mixed boiler
and communicate with a BMS. KN Series boilers are configurations where both condensing and non-condensing
engineered to provide extremely low CO2 and NOx boilers are being utilized in hybrid boiler applications.
emissions – all in a small footprint.
Hydrotherm Smith Cast Iron Boilers
HeatNet is an honorable mention HeatNet is an honorable mention
260 North Elm Street winner of the prestigious 2012 260 North Elm Street winner of the prestigious 2012
Westfield, MA 01085 AHRExpo Innovation Awards Westfield, MA 01085 AHRExpo Innovation Awards
(413) 564-5515 (413) 562-9631
www.hydrothermkn.com www.smithboiler.com
CIRCLE NO. 824 / BOOTH NO. 4269, 4369, 4569 CIRCLE NO. 825 / BOOTH NO. 4269, 4369, 4569

RBI Futera XLF SpacePak Expands Product Line

Now Available in 2,500 and SpacePak, the original small duct high velocity (SDHV), expands their line comfort sys-
tem solutions to include zoning controls, air-to-water heat pumps and combi boilers.
3,500 MBH The new SpacePak Chiller Series reverse cycle heat pumps provides a condenser
RBI Water Heaters has expanded their product offering to
coil that is 30% larger than traditional units to provide a single source for heating and
include two new sizes, 2500 and 3500 MBH, in the popular
cooling with the comfort of hydronics. Thermapak, a 93% efficient condensing wall-
Futera XLF product line. These high-efficiency, near-con-
hung "combi" boiler and domestic hot water package is the ideal solution for all your
densing, copperfin boilers are now available in four sizes
domestic water needs.
ranging 2,500 to 4,000 MBH with full modulation and a 5:1
turndown. Ultra compact XLF units fit easily through stan-
SpacePak
dard size doors and feature HeatNet technology, an on-board
260 North Elm Street
digital monitoring and control device which allows up to 16
Westfield, MA 01085
units to be linked together or to a BMS for optimal system
(800) 465-8558
performance.
HeatNet is an honorable mention Fax (413) 564-5815
RBI Water Heaters winner of the prestigious 2012 www.spacepak.com
260 North Elm St. AHRExpo Innovation Awards CIRCLE NO. 826
Westfield, MA 01085 BOOTH NO. CIRCLE NO. 827
(413) 568-9671, www.rbiwaterheaters.com 4269, 4369, 4569 BOOTH NO. 4269, 4369, 4569

Energy Recovery Wheels ACR SmartReader Plus 4 Low

In today’s crucial energy climate it is impor- Pressure Differential Data Logger
tant to reduce the cost of heating and cooling
buildings. We can help with Green-Save™ with 10 Year Battery
energy recovery wheels for ventilation air
systems. Reduce boiler and chiller operating The SmartReader Plus 4 LPD (Low Pres-
costs. Now AHRI certified. Our exclusive Ion sure Differential) logger is a two channel log-
desiccant is designed for low co-adsorption ger with internal pressure and temperature
of non-water vapors. This provides extremely sensors. The low pressure sensor is built
low desiccant carryover of odors or cleaning into the logger and is capable of measuring
solutions. Installations include health care, of- low gauge and differential pressure. ACR’s
fices, research labs, universities, dormitories, SmartReader Plus 4 is capable of storing up
any building requiring ventilation for improved IAQ and comfort. Sizes to 75,000 cfm. to 21,500 readings.
SG America
507-214-2715 ACR Systems, Inc. www.acrsystems.com
Sales@SGAmerica.com; www.SGAmerica.com 1-800-663-7845 sales@acrsystems.com
CIRCLE NO. 847/BOOTH NO. 1743 CIRCLE NO. 806/BOOTH NO. 3815

Vertical In-Line HVAC

Pumps - Split-Coupled
Patterson EnviroFloTM vertical in-line pumps offer reliability
and full flexibility in a high-efficiency design that minimizes en-
ergy consumption and provides easy access for maintenance.
The split-coupled configuration is available above 5 HP and
is designed to deliver energy efficient flows to 10,000 gpm
with heads to 400 ft tdh. These pumps offer standard case
working pressure at 175 psi with optional 325 psi available
on many models.
Patterson Pump Company
Toccoa, Georgia, 706-886-2101, Fax: 706-886-0023
E-mail: marketing@pattersonpumps.com
www.enviroflopumps.com
CIRCLE NO. 834/BOOTH NO. 5185 CIRCLE NO. 857
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EcoFlex Flue Draft and CO Safety Monitor

The EcoFlex is the ultimate economizer system for commercial boiler and water
heater systems. The unique design consists of an inline power venter with an inte-
grated economizer unit with stainless steel tubes – very simple, in a compact design.
The system can operate in a condensing or non-condensing mode.
• Seven standard sizes
• Energy savings up to 5%
• Variable speed and direct drive
• Natural gas, LP gas and oil
• Ultra-quiet
• 316 stainless steel fin-tubes
• Simple construction – easy service
• Low profile – easy to integrate
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 So Charles Dickens, Ferris Bueller, a chicken, and a pig walk into an HVAC article … and try to
sort out proper use of outdoor air in data centers. As you might imagine, it’s not simple. But if you
remember these three design absolutes and consider your client’s specific perspective, the
resulting efficiencies might have you singing Wayne Newton at the prospect of repeat business.
BY KEVIN DICKENS, P.E.

A
lthough I’m writing this in December, you will likely
be reading it in January, and hopefully you will be at
McCormick Place where the 2012 AHR Expo is being
held this year. Every three years, the Big Show comes
to Chi-town. And while I love Chicago, you have to
admit that having your signature conference in the [Very Cold and]
Windy City in the throes of winter defies conventional wisdom.
In fact, as my wife pointed out the one year she came along,
leave it to a bunch of engineers to hold their most important
industry event during the coldest time of the year on the banks of
Lake Michigan when the beaches of any number of warm ocean
destinations beckon. I must confess I didn’t have a logical counter-
argument for my lovely bride.
And speaking of conventional wisdom, you might have your
very own Oprah-esque “ah-ha” moment as you briskly walk to your
shuttle bus, and conclude that a data center with a direct outdoor air
(OA) economizer would really make sense in a climate such as this.
But caution, my datacom compadres, there is a vocal “close that darn
window” chorus out there that has a logical counter-argument.
So in this article, we will take a moment to understand this
argument before, like Cubs fan Steve Bartman in that fateful Game
6 of the 2003 National League Championship Series, you become a
hapless victim of your own singular focus.
SOME DATA CENTER OLD-TIME RELIGION
Before we begin, I want to layout what I consider the givens of
modern data center operation and design. I have concluded that at
every opportunity, I must be an evangelist for common sense data
center design, and, for me, the data center design absolutes are:
• Recognize the recommended
• Advance the allowed
• Separate the streams
Recognize the recommended. The “recommended” are the
“ASHRAE Recommended Thermal Guidelines.” The recommended
ranges shouldn’t be a matter of debate any longer. If you are not
designing a new data center to operate within, or optimizing an
existing data center to eventually function inside, the latest absolute
dewpoint values of 42°F and 59° and temperature range of 64° and
81°, you’re just not being serious. Stop hedging your bets and go all
in already.
Advance the allowed. The new frontier can be found at the
limits set by the “ASHRAE Allowed Thermal Guidelines.” When
you can get to humidity rh levels of 20% to 80% and a maximum
dewpoint of 62°, along with temperatures between 59° to 90°, you
will have figuratively flung open the window of energy-saving
opportunities, and quite literally opened the free cooling window

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 Cutting Costs vs. Creeping Copper
FIGURE 1. Example of copper creep corrosion on a lead-free circuit
board. (Image courtesy of ASHRAE2.)
on almost the entire planet. This will be the genesis of truly net zero
(energy and water) data centers. So stop circling the wagons and be
a Sooner instead.
Separate the streams. And lastly, stop kidding yourself and
keep the hot air hot and the cold air cold by keeping the streams
separate. It doesn’t matter how you do it, but do it physically not
theoretically. Arrows on drawings are just lines on paper. The only
way to absolutely guarantee that airstreams won’t mix is to provide
a physical demarcation. And when air doesn’t mix, you can bank on
your systems’ efficiencies and avoid overdesign and wasteful safety
factors. Simply put, you can’t push the envelope unless and until
your envelope has edges. So embrace boundaries.
A TALE OF TWO STUDIES
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of
wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…,” so wrote Charles Dickens
in A Tale of Two Cities. And even though he was speaking of pre-
revolutionary France, the same can be said today about expanded
ambient conditions in the data center and the proposed use of 100%
OA economizers in the technical space.
On the one hand, we are given the expanded thermal guidelines
that make it possible to cool with OA even during the warmest times
of the year. But then we have another, much less referenced, white
paper from ASHRAE that throws a bit of cold water on the whole
economizer parade.
In 2009, ASHRAE issued guidance on particulate contamina-
tion within the data center that seemed to discourage the use of
excessive amounts of OA, implying that too much OA could lead to
equipment failures. Two common modes of IT equipment failures
due to environmental contamination are copper creep corrosion on
printed circuit boards and corrosion of silver termination in minia-
ture surface-mounted components (Figures 1 and 2).
In an almost teeter-totter fashion, these two seminal papers have
been issued and updated: Thermal Guidelines in 2008 and updated
in mid-2011, and the Contamination Guidelines in 2009 and late
56 En gi n e e r e d Sy stem s January 2012
2011. But what is even more interesting (and perhaps telling) is the
difference in the amount of hype and press the two have received in
the HVAC marketplace of ideas.
The thermal guidelines have been hawked like a traveling medi-
cine man’s elixir, with no fewer than a dozen related articles in the
major trade magazines and numerous conference presentations.
Heck, there was even advance hoopla leaked prior to its official
unveiling in May of last year.
The contamination guidance, on the other hand, was issued in
relative quiet. For some of us, if it weren’t for the “help” of filter
vendors and manufacturers of certain types of AHU technology
pointing it out, it may have been missed altogether. And I’m not
slighting the messenger here; these folks have a legitimate claim to a
legitimate paper. But it seems like the authors of the paper are treat-
ing it like a less substantial treatise.
To reinforce this observation, I refer you to an article in the
December issue of the ASHRAE Journal wherein the authors (both
associated with TC 9.9) tout the increased potential for economiz-
ers and then offer a seemingly innocuous yet ominous caveat two
pages later:
“Moisture may exacerbate corrosion problems in data centers where
corrosive gases are present. Different locations around the world have
different ambient levels of potentially corrosive pollutants, and the
designer must be cognizant of these pollution levels on a site-specific
basis. Even when ambient levels are known to be low, the potential
still exists for short-term transient conditions of potentially cor-
rosive pollutants of which the designer must be aware. [emphasis
added]”
I’ve got a challenge for you: try telling the data center opera-
tor you’re working with that your design may lead to “short-term
transient conditions” and see if you get a Christmas card next year.
BETWEEN A ROCK AND SOFT PLACE?
So what’s the deal? Is ASHRAE quiet because corrosion is a simple
matter that can be handled relatively easily? Or could it be there
aren’t enough hard data to back up the perceived threat, so instead
of picking a fight they do a soft pedal? Well depending on your OA
politics you can probably interpret it either way.
The 2011 Contamination Guidelines waffle a bit on easy vs. hard,
stating in part, “Data center contamination and its corrosive effects
can be identified by well defined and relatively easy means.” Then
it counters with, “…direct measurement of gaseous contamination
levels is difficult and is not a useful indicator of the suitability of the
environment for IT equipment.”
Then they go on to offer, “… a low-cost, simple approach to
monitoring the air quality in a data center…” using copper and
silver foil coupons (Figures 3 and 4). But then they reverse course,
restating one of the more controversial statements from the 2009
version. Specifically that, “…for data centers with higher gaseous
contamination levels, gas-phase filtration of the inlet air and the air
in the data center is highly recommended…”
So contamination is easy to identify but difficult to measure
directly? However, I can use a simple coupon approach to measure
it, but in data centers with higher levels I should still add gaseous
filtration, which at best is unfamiliar to most facilities designers and
at worst is an unknown.
And you have to ask: Do I carry out the
coupon protocol before or after I build
my data center and run the systems? And
if I need to determine the potential for
contamination before I design and build,
are there any credible data out there to
guide me?
LBNL thinks that ASHRAE got it wrong
and it’s all anecdotal evidence and con-
jecture and said as much in their white
paper, wherein they reached the following
conclusion:
or no. It all comes down to the weaseliest
of weasel words … it depends. So here is
this weasel’s advice based on clients I have
worked with and their risk aversion.
Internet-based service providers
(probably yes). The business model for
most of the operations on the internet is
based on maximized virtuality and server
utilization. Their success is based on speed
and uptime like everyone else’s, but their
model is unique in that they are light years
ahead of the rest of the IT market and their
redundancy is in the e-ether, not necessar-
ily the bricks and mortar. In the simplest
terms, when they lose a server, they shift
the application to another server instantly.

“… The white paper recommendation

that gaseous contamination should be moni-
tored and that gas phase filtration is neces-
sary for data centers with high contamina-
tion levels is not supported…We are con-

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 Cutting Costs vs. Creeping Copper
FIGURE 2. Corrosion of a plated through hole because of wetted
ionic dust high in magnesium chloride. (Image courtesy of ASHRAE.)
FIGURE 3. Unexposed corrosion classification coupon contain-
ing copper and silver metal strips. (Image courtesy of LBNL.)
For this reason and others, they can afford to lose servers without
affecting their product delivery. That doesn’t mean they can lose an
entire data center, but it does mean that they manage risk differ-
ently. In turn an OA economizer is not a push for these folks, which
is evident in all the press you read about the Microsofts, eBays, and
Googles of the world.
58 En gi n e e r e d Sy stem s January 2012
Intelligence community, 9-1-1, and DoD (probably no). They
say that a picture is worth a thousand words, so in your mind’s eye,
recall the billowing cloud of dust that surged from Ground Zero
when the World Trade Center towers fell. It’s the lethal potential of
that menacing debris cloud or an agent released into the atmosphere
or smoke billowing from the flames due to an explosion or wildfire
that all make a direct OA economizer less tenable for facilities that
must remain up and running without interruption.
There are options, such as providing systems that can operate
with OA during normal operation but have sufficient plant capacity
to operate on 100% circulation in an emergency. But there is such a
premium associated with protecting all of the additional OA intakes
(blast, security, and agent detection) and the redundant cooling sys-
tems that usually it just isn’t worth it. These are applications where
water-side-economizers and indirect airside economizers make the
most sense.
Enterprise data centers such as government, banking, and com-
mercial business (why not?) Here is where the real opportunity lies.
This is where I would suggest that you start with the OA economizer
as a basis and then prove it can’t work. There will be pushback,
especially from the old guard, but in most cases I would counter
that the evidence is sketchy that the typical data center operator has
to fear OA.
I base part of this on the fact that the risk factors in these seg-
ments do not approach those in the intelligence community. Banks
will say they can’t do it, but banks have done it (see Deutsche Bank).
And also because LBNL developed a study using data collected from
data centers being operated by Digital Realty Trust, NetApp, IRS,
Cisco, and others, concluded that data centers utilizing OA econo-
mizers have no more corrosion issues than traditional data centers .
IN CONCLUSION
Let’s not forget the data center design absolutes: recognize the rec-
ommended; advance the allowed; and separate the streams.
With that said, ASHRAE has issued thermal and corrosion guide-
lines that appear to be counter to each other. But their dissemination
FIGURE 4. Typical coupon mounting. Example shown is just
prior to cooling air entering IT equipment.7

in the marketplace and further analysis by others in the industry
help us to see that the dusty dog with zinc whiskers has a bark that
is much worse than its bite.
OA economizers have immense potential for saving energy, but
like any technology, there is risk that must be weighed against the
reward. And while indirect OA economizers and waterside econo-
mizers can in many cases approach (or even beat) direct OA econo-
mizers performance-wise, you just can’t beat the simplicity of fresh
air when applied in its purest form.
I hope this article provides enough information and references
so that you can see beyond your previous horizon. And at the risk
of using one too many Chicago references, I will quote Ferris Buel-
ler who said, “Life changes pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look
around once in a while, you could miss it.” Same goes for design.
Danke Schoen. ES
Dickens is a mission critical specialist and
project manager at Jacob Global Buildings
NA (St. Louis). Reach him at kevin.dickens@
jacobs.com.
Data Center Classes and Usage Guidance.” Developed by
ASHRAE Technical Committee 9.9. , 2011.
2. ASHRAE. “Gaseous and Particulate Contamination Guidelines
for Data Centers.” Developed by ASHRAE Technical Committee
9.9. 2009.
3. Steinbrecher, R. and R. Schmidt, “Data Center Environments
- ASHRAE’s Evolving Thermal Guidelines.” ASHRAE Journal.
53(12):42-49, 2011.
4. Han, Shehabi, Coles, Tschudi, Gadgil, and Stein. “Should Data
Center Owners be Afraid of Air-side Economizer Use? – A
Review of ASHRAE TC 9.9 White Paper titled Gaseous and
Particulate Contamination Guidelines for Data Centers.” LBNL.
2009.
5. Dunnavant, K. “Indirect Air-Side Economizer Cycle - Data Center
Heat Rejection.” ASHRAE Journal. 53(03):44-54, 2011..
6. http://www.banking-on-green.com/en/content/news_3604.html
7. Han, Price, Coles, Tschudi, and Gadgil. “Air Corrosivity in U.S.
Outdoor-Air-Cooled Data Centers is Similar to That in Conven-
tional Data Centers.” LBNL. 2011.

CITED WORKS
1. ASHRAE.“2011 Thermal Guidelines for
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 Follow one firm’s path from committing to BIM to climbing a learning curve in using it to serve
clients, and even on to taking an unusual step to fill what it sees as a need in the market.
BY DWAYNE MILLER
I
n 2006, prior to the industry downturn, JBA looked at emerg-
ing technologies as a way to strengthen its base and prepare
for the future. In Q4 of 2006, JBA leaders made a conscious
decision to embrace BIM technology and commit to innovate
the BIM design platform, particularly for the active building
systems. JBA made an immediate investment in BIM software via
Autodesk Revit and began training while launching an internal BIM
alpha team to drive implementation across the organization.
The commitment for adoption and intentional advancement of
JBA’s BIM expertise is rooted in the belief that the technology is one
of the most significant developments for the current generation of
building industry professionals. The initial adoption was challeng-
ing and executed with passion, not because of where the technology
is today, but rather in the long-term view of the advancements that
will come to life in the next five to ten years.
JBA recognized the significant paradigm shift associated with
migration from 2-D CAD delivery, which utilizes graphic symbols
to represent the built environment, to BIM methodologies that
leverage a 3-D model populated with intelligent objects. The shift is
very significant, since BIM technology has the potential for positive
progress for all phases and all stakeholders in the building lifecycle.
The forward movement for BIM technology started with the archi-
tecture and engineering phase of building development and has
rapidly migrated to the construction and operations phases.
Although Revit for active building systems typically focuses on
mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) disciplines, JBA made
the commitment to launch the technology across all service offer-
ings, including telecommunications, audiovisual, security/surveillance,
60 En gi n e e r e d Sy stem s January 2012
acoustics, fire protection, and life safety systems. The MEP adoption
is a challenge due to limited availability of quality content (intelli-
gent objects) for the various equipment items and components that
make up MEP systems. The content available with the Revit software,
although growing with each release, is still very limited. Content proved
even more challenging for the other active building systems included in
JBA’s primary service offerings, as it is virtually nonexistent.
REAL-WORLD CHALLENGES
The BIM content challenge became glaringly obvious in early 2007
when JBA undertook its first heavy model for an enterprise data
center serving a 15-million-sq-ft development. The data center was
located at the base of a 3,200-room guest tower directly below the
last level of guest rooms. It was clear the installation would be com-
parable to building a Swiss watch, with tight floor-to-floor height,
convergence of tower infrastructure that occurs below the last level
of guest rooms, and the active infrastructure that required driving a
300-cabinet data center deploying blade servers.
As part of the data center planning effort, JBA advised the owner
that to ensure the infrastructure is coordinated and physically fits
within the space, a BIM model needed to be developed. At the time,
no one else on the project was working with BIM. As a result, JBA
developed the model, including the pertinent structural and archi-
tectural elements to facilitate active systems modeling. The data
center space power, HVAC, fire system, security, telecommunica-
tions, cabinets, racks, etc., were all incorporated in the model with
content that was created in-house. The end result was a model that
was invaluable in clarifying the complexity of the space.
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After completing this model, JBA embarked on several BIM projects,
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Another of the lessons learned was to ensure clarity of expectations
and mutual agreement with the client regarding the level of develop-
ment for the model. Cost controls were significantly improved by
focusing on client education regarding value, effort, and cost associ-
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Technology To Power Growth

makes a compelling argument for adoption of BIM tech-

nology. Once the model is leveraged to optimize main-
tenance and ultimately building performance, recurring
savings for a 30- to 50-yr building life will be realized and
the full value of BIM will be much more obvious.

MOVING FORWARD
One of the essential stages in the evolution of BIM is the
progression of BIM content for the design and construc-
tion phases. To reach the goal of fully leveraging the BIM
model for optimal building operations, the building
product manufacturers’ content has to proliferate. Manu-
facturers need to provide quality content that is accurate,
available in a low-burden file size, and loaded with rel-
evant intelligence and context that meets the needs of
designers/engineers, contractors, and, ultimately, endus-
FIGURE 1. Site view of the future Twin Arrows Casino and Resort near Flagstaff, AZ.
ers for building operations.
One of the major paradigm shifts is manufacturer
engagement in engineering workflow and opportunities
for manufacturers to have their catalog of information in
the form of BIM content, inserted directly into the engi-
neering deliverables during the construction documenta-
tion phase. In legacy CAD delivery, the typical approach
was to create graphic symbols to represent manufacturers’
equipment, fixtures, and products for the construction
drawings, with limited use of specific manufacturer infor-
mation as part of the deliverables. Typically, design layouts
are based on a specific manufacturer to serve as the design
basis, and all manufacturers included in the specifications
are required to work within the allocated space.
In the future, we anticipate a similar approach, but the
design basis will be specific to manufacturers’ BIM content.
If the contractor selects a different manufacturer than the
one utilized for the design basis, they will be required to
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demonstrate that the manufacturer they intend to use com-
Resort.
plies with the design and physical space criteria via substitu-
tion of their BIM content into the model. Standardization of
content remains a key hurdle for leveraging the BIM model
for optimal facility operations over the building life cycle.
Without standardized parameters, there are significant chal-
lenges in deploying third-party software to effectively mine
the model for required information because the data is not
in a consistent location or a standardized format.
Lack of standardization requires performance of a
unique mapping process on a model-by-model basis, which
is an extremely inefficient process. Lack of standardized
content will inhibit broad based adoption of BIM mod-
els for facility maintenance and operational optimization.
Organizations such BuildingSmart Alliance, NIBS, BICSI,
ASHRAE, NEMA, and several others are working toward
standards development, which is a monumental task.
JBA’s experience in BIM content development driven by
FIGURE 3. A peek inside the future kitchen of the Twin Arrows Casino and Resort necessity highlights that in order for the technology to really
using BIM. advance for active system designs, quality content needed
to be readily available and accessible to the active systems
ect size, these savings typically occur over a 2- to 5-yr timeframe. design community. While manufacturers are the obvious experts for
The savings associated with improved design and construction their specific products, based on the poor quality of BIM content cur-

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relevant, and complementary for engineering workflow. JBA saw this
challenge as an opportunity and decided to start a separate company,
BIMAdvent, focused on content development for manufacturers, soft-
ware, and applications to optimize engineering workflow. Its vision is
to be a leading provider of innovative resources for the intelligent built
environment, while its mission is to optimize the building life cycle.
BIMAdvent closely aligns with JBA, and together they help each other
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community, combined with the tools and resources that work in
the context of legacy workflow for the professionals engaged in the
various phases of the building life cycle, are key drivers to enable
continued evolution of BIM.
It is our belief that in order for JBA to live its purpose of improv-
ing and protecting the human environment, it must live its core
value of innovation by being aggressive drivers and thought leaders
in BIM technology. The end goal is proliferation of BIM technology
throughout the entire building life cycle to facilitate a less costly,
more efficient, better managed intelligent built environment that
serves as a legacy for this generation and a solid foundation for
improvement by future generations. It is the collective belief of JBA
and BIMAdvent that they have an obligation to live out the vision
and purpose of both companies to facilitate a better future. ES

Miller is CEO of JBA Consulting Engineers.

With more than 23 years in the industry, he is
responsible for the strategic development and
growth of both the engineering areas of prac-
tice and business development for the firm.
Miller is a C-2 License Master Electrician in
Nevada, a Certified Power Quality Professional
and a Registered Communications Distribu-
tion Designer. He is also an active member of
Building Industry Consulting Services International and the National
Fire Protection Association Building Services. Prior to joining JBA
Consulting Engineers, Miller served with the U.S. Air Force as an
engineering officer for a worldwide mobile design and build squadron.
He received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from
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The people in the industry don’t necessarily make a loud argument for it, but the results often do.
How to get this ball rolling, sell it, and see it through from design to occupancy? Look ahead by
looking below.

BY HOWARD MCKEW, P.E., C.P.E.

I
f you follow my “Tomorrow’s Environment” columns, you
will be familiar with my quest to elevate testing, adjusting,
and balancing (TAB) to third-party TAB consulting to func-
tion in parallel with third-party commissioning. To me, the
issue is an open and shut case, a no-brainer, but the third-
party TAB concept is none of these, which baffles me because
most of the professionals I know in the design and construction
business don’t have much confidence in the traditional TAB com-
pany working as a subcontractor to the HVAC contractor. While
each of the three TAB organizations are committed to the process
of being independent, I wouldn’t be writing this article if clients
were satisfied with the results.
Experience has shown me that many owners don’t have confi-
dence in final TAB reports and, more importantly, don’t under-
stand how TAB should be performed. As a rule, design engineers
(DE) specify that the TAB company should follow industry stan-
dards, and, more often than not, the consultants then allow the
TAB process to be compromised during construction. Until DEs
actually participate in hands-on TAB work, they are not going to
enforce the standards, because they really don’t understand the
TAB process. Most general contractors and construction manag-
ers claim to understand the TAB process but prefer to leave the
task to their HVAC subcontractor and let it be his problem.
TAB is the process in which each HVAC system is tuned up; it’s

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analogous to a tuned up automobile com-
ing out of a dealership, ensuring the buyer
that the miles-per-gallon energy perfor-
mance posted on the window sticker will
be met. Unfortunately, the building indus-
try doesn’t appreciate this analogy and sees
TAB only as a task that needs to be done
(good or bad) as part of project closeout.
At the same time, I don’t believe anyone in
the building industry would accept their
new car leaving the showroom sputtering
and backfiring or not tuned up to achieve
the miles-per-gallon as advertised. The
solution to this is that TAB services need
to be an extension of consulting engineer-
ing service, following a similar format as
third-party commissioning consultants.
ESTABLISHING THIRD-PARTY TAB
CONSULTING SERVICES
To begin my TAB thesis, let’s compare
some of the job responsibilities and tasks
of DE consultants and third-party com-
missioning agent/consultants (CxC)
beginning with (Figure 1):
“how-to” books all approach HVAC sys-
tems the same way a consultant would
approach their job responsibilities:
• Complete a design review, if not multiple
design reviews. This is also a LEED® cer-
tification requirement. TAB books also
reference a need for a design review with
the TABB manual being the most specific
as to how to approach a TAB review.
• DE consultants and some CxCs produce
system flow diagrams to show that the
overall system, automatic control com-
ponents, etc., follow along with the TABB
preliminary TAB procedures. The TAB
consultant is required to complete system
flow diagrams.
• DE consultants will have completed an
air balance assessment per system, per
zone, per floor, and/or per building to
ensure the building does not operate at
a negative pressure. Inventorying air-
quantity documentation is most obvious
by consulting engineers responsible for
pharmaceutical projects, with their floor
plans showing space pressure (+/ =) and
direction-of-flow arrows going from one
room to an adjacent room. Health-care
consulting engineers will do something
similar but often don’t clearly document
this data on a contract drawing. TAB
consultants complete this task as part of
their design review “for TAB-ability.”
• CxCs use a pending issue (PI) log and a
corrective action (CA) log as part of their
process. The TAB consultant also has his
own PI and CA logs to track questions,
observations, and deficiencies.
• Both DE consultants and CxCs make
field visits and report back using a stan-
dard field visit report document. Follow-
ing similar procedures, TAB consultants
should be completing field visit reports,
too, when completing their required sys-
tem-by-system pre-TAB inspections.
• As part of each report, DE consultants
and CxCs usually use some form of
observation checklist. Each TAB organi-

• DE and CxCs don’t furnish and/or install

equipment. Neither do TAB consultants.
• DE and CxCs don’t furnish and/or install
HVAC systems. Neither do TAB consul-
tants.
• Both services are directly connected to
system performance and energy conser-
vation. TAB consultants play an integral
role in delivering HVAC systems that
meet the design intent and need to be
operating as efficient as possible when
the balancing is completed.
I have all three TAB organization air
and water balance HVAC systems manuals,
beginning with National Environmental
Balancing Bureau’s NEBB Procedural Stan-
dards for Testing, Adjusting, and Balancing of
Environmental Systems, Version 7, which is
unfortunately not as thorough as the older
Version 2 book. The Associated Air Balance
Council (AABC) has its National Standards
for Total System Balancing, which I’d cat-
egorize as pretty good, but not great. The
third organization is the Testing, Adjust-
ing, and Balancing Bureau (TABB), which
has endorsed the SMACNA TAB Procedural
Guide, First Edition, 2003. In my opinion,
is the best of the three TAB organization
instruction manuals, and, interestingly, this
manual appears to be the same NEBB Ver-
sion 2 manual I used back in 1993. These
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With Third-Party Commissioning

FIGURE 1. Parallel track of commissioning and TAB process flow diagram.

Even the TAB firms I’ve hired under this concept appreciate the
TAB
TA B is the pro roce
cess
ss in wh
whic ichh ea
each ch approach, because they are allowed to do the job the way it should
be done. It is time to officially recognize this third-party consult-
HVAC
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uneded up; it’ t’s
s ing service to the building industry with the DE or CxC partner-
a al
ana ogogou
ouss to a tun uned
ed up ing with pre-qualified TAB firms to begin the TAB process in the
design phase with an enhanced TAB process.
auto
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mobi bile
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dealership p, ensuring g th he buy yer opportunity? Approach it like a consultant and not like a contractor.
that
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construction management company that while contractors focus
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ly, the build ildiingg the TAB services that leads building owners to believe that a third-
party TAB firm will deliver a better product. This doesn’t disqual-
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bad)
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clososeo
eout ut. it comes to TAB services, being a third-party party consultant, just
like a third-party commissioning firm, can eliminate many of the
zation has its own standard observation checklists, with AABC initial arguments when selling this service.
having probably the best selection of checklists for equipment
inspection, as well as their system distribution checklist (airside DESIGN PHASE
and waterside). Each system should have a completed field report My vision of a third-party TAB approach mirrors my commission-
by the TAB consultant as part of the system-readiness portion of ing services and providing a consistent, consulting process begin-
preliminary TAB procedures, and each report should include the ning in the design phase with the following activities:
associated completed checklist(s).
• Solicit proposals from prequalified TAB firms to be a TAB part-
SELLING THIRD-PARTY TAB SERVICES ner/sub-consultant in the design phase.
I have been selling third-party TAB to clients for several years • Just as the Cx firms, kick off meeting with the design team to
now with great project satisfaction from clients and contractors. outline the TAB services.

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• Design review for “TAB-ability” just as
Cx firm review for commission-ability
with all observations/questions docu-
mented in the TAB PI log requiring
responses from the design team.
• Just as the Cx firm embeds the Cx plan
into the Cx specification, write the TAB
plan and embed it into the TAB.
This approach is where a proven meth-
odology, within the TAB business process,
can ensure a proactive TAB participation
that will continue on into the start of the
construction phase, as opposed to the
more traditional TAB firm arriving on
site later in the construction phase. It is
important to note that while TABB guide-
lines (and to a lesser degree, AABC and
NEBB) suggest early participation in the
construction phase, it is really imperative
that the TAB process start in the design
phase and follow the steps noted above.
Just like commissioning should start in the
design phase, so should TAB, and the only
way to achieve this is to have a third-party
TAB consultant under contract for those
design-phase services. This has been the
initial missing link in past TAB projects
that have resulted in less than successful
HVAC projects.
THE CONSTRUCTION PHASE
“Preparatory work includes the planning and
scheduling of all TAB procedures, collecting
the necessary data, reviewing the data col-
lected, studying the systems to be balanced,
making schematic system layouts, recording
the published data on the test reports forms,
and finally, making preliminary field checks
of the HVAC equipment and systems.”
This statement from the “SMACNA TAB
Procedural Guide” emphasizes the impor-
tance of beginning the TAB initiative at the
start of the shop-drawing phase of the proj-
ect. For the majority of past TAB projects,
this submittal requirement is the second
missing link to a successful HVAC project
and must change if building systems are
going to be efficiently tuned up prior to
commissioning.
My recommended submittal process is
two-fold (Sidebar):
Submittal 1
• Firm certification (TABB, AABC, or
NEBB), resume of TAB personnel
assigned to the project including super-
visor qualifications and organization,
quality assurance program certificates
• Draft table of contents for final report
and sample executive summary that will
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With Third-Party Commissioning
 TAB Submittals
SUBMITTAL 1:
• Firm certification (TABB, AABC, or NEBB)
• Resume of TAB personnel assigned to the project
• Quality assurance process
• Draft table of contents for final report
• Sample executive summary that will be integral to the final report
• TAB procedures documents including:
o Associated system readiness checklists for air systems,
water systems, and ATC verification
o Specialty room TAB procedures
o System readiness checklists
• List of systems to be balanced
• Sample TAB-ability design checklists
• Sample field report
• Sample corrective action log
SUBMITTAL 2:
• Design review summary
• Completed design review of each system
• Pending issue log documenting review comments with all
observations/questions from design review
• Review equipment schedules relative to capacity
• Floor-by-floor inventory overall floor plan air balance at maxi-
mum supply air, return air, and exhaust air and at minimum
supply, return, and exhaust air totals.
• Floor-by-floor inventory overall water balance at maximum and
minimum flows.
• Special area/system air balance for space pressure with direct-
of-flow arrows
• Individual system flow diagrams with pertinent “estimated
design data” (static pressure, pump head, velocities, cfm, gpm,
etc.)
be integral to the final report
• TAB procedures documents, including associated system readi-
ness checklists for air systems, water systems, and ATC verifica-
tion, as well as specialty room TAB procedures and associated
system readiness checklists and also duct pressure test TAB pro-
cedures for spot-checking with its associated checklist
• List of systems to be balanced along with samples of associated
electronic documents to be used, such as:
• Contract drawing and specification review checklists for TAB-
ability.
• Field observation checklists for equipment and distribution.
• Field report format continued use of the PI log and the intro-
duction of the CA log.
While the design team, owner, and contractor review this initial
submittal, the TAB sub-consultant completes its contract docu-
ment review and develops what will eventually become the final
TAB report, which includes:
Submittal 2
• Review each system sheet metal layout and piping layout relative
to access, ability to balance each system, and other review com-
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ments, with all observations/questions included in the PI log
needing response from the design team and/or the contractor.
• Review equipment schedules relative to capacity (adequate static
pressure, excessive pump head, etc.) and equipment location
(e.g., excessive discharge loss, potential stratification, and access
to devices to balance the system(s).
• Inventory overall floor plan air balance at maximum supply air,
return air, and exhaust air and at minimum supply, return, and
exhaust air totals.
• Area space pressure calculations and cfm per floor plan with
documentation of specific locations where duct velocity, static
pressure, and cfm, as well as gpm and system pressure, will be
taken at time of balancing.
• Development of system flow diagrams with pertinent “estimated
design data” (static pressure, pump head, velocities, cfm, gpm,
etc.) indicated on the applicable flow diagram. For “open water
system,” also identifying net positive suction head (NPSH)
requirement per pump shop drawing submittal.
How important are these system flow diagrams with pertinent
design data? Analogous to traveling from coast to coast in your
car, you wouldn’t do it without a road map, so why would a TAB
professional show up to begin air and water balancing without
documenting all the data in his final report-TAB book in advance
to know the systems, to know what to expect, and to be prepared
to know what is not per the design intent?
The two-phase submittal requirements are an amplification
of the preliminary TAB procedures found in Chapter 2 of the
SMACNA TAB Procedural Guide with enhancements included in
the third-party TAB specification. AABC and NEBB manuals don’t
get into enough detail on preliminary process as the TABB manual
but instead focus on how the work will be completed.
Next comes the TAB sub-consultant’s participation in the con-
tractor’s field coordination drawing phase, signing off on these
3-D BIM documents. The TAB sub-consultant should participate
in specific commissioning meetings, along with the more tradi-
tional trade contractor meetings, to keep abreast of construction
activities and to contribute input regarding the project schedule
and also regarding the Cx test plan and schedule document.
A third weak link in the traditional TAB process is the field
visiting activities associated with system readiness leading up to
the final balancing. The TAB plan/specification will require a field
visit report per system and include completed Pre-TAB checklists
for each piece of equipment and associated distribution inspec-
tion along with photographs to further document the installation.
The TAB sub-consultant will transform PI log, documenting
issues of concern not identified in the TAB-ability design review
into a CA log that will be used to document deficiencies that must
be corrected prior to balancing of specific systems.
It is important to note that just like Cx field visit, reporting
should be completed electronically. All TAB documentation can
be done using an iPad or tablet computer including “design-to-
actual” data input on the project-required system flow diagrams
that were produced back in the submittal phase of the project.
Once the field visits are completed, the system readiness moves to
air and water balancing. Here is where the TAB sub-consultant’s techni-
cians will be on site, armed with all the documentation and knowledge,
ready to implement the testing, adjusting, and balancing per the TAB
specification. These TAB activities lead directly into the commissioning
functional performance test of each system, where the system shall be
demonstrated to the CxC and the owner’s facility personnel.

THE FINAL REPORT

Having already started the final TAB report in the submittal
phase of construction, the third-party TAB sub-consultant will
have been populating this report as the project progressed. Each
system will have had its own sub-folder where the design review
document, associated field visit report, pre-TAB checklists, and
system flow diagrams are kept and updated as the job progressed.
In addition, the associated fan curve or pump curve will have
been added and the design-to-actual data included at the time of
balancing. Another section of the report will be where the PI log
and CI log resolutions are kept. The floor plans with sheet metal
and pipe distribution shown and the TAB technician’s marked up
of design-to-actual data (static pressure, duct traverses, etc.) will
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 The questions can pile up quickly when it’s time to specify a motor to pair with a variable drive.
The information available sometimes leaves one wondering just as much about the information that
is unavailable. Will a decision hold up not only in the actual application but also possibly in court?
Wade into compatibility, spec terms, partial loads, and more as we try to get this motor running.
BY STEVEN G. LIESCHEIDT, P.E., CCS, CCPR

S
hould you specify an “inverter duty,” “inverter ready,”
“inverter rated,” or a “VFD compatible” motor for your
fans and pumps in HVAC applications? Is there a differ-
ence in these terms? Don’t answer too quickly without
doing a little research.
Now, without taking time to research any industry definitions of
these terms, go look at your company fan, pump, and motor speci-
fications and see if there is any clarification on specifically what
type of motor would be acceptable to you if you were reviewing a
submittal for a motor for a fan or pump on a VFD. Would you need
a specific type of insulation? Would you need a premium efficiency
motor, and, if so, what level of efficiency would make the motor
acceptable for a VFD drive, or does motor efficiency matter when a
VFD is used? Would either an ODP or TEFC motor be acceptable
with a VFD? Can you use a brand “B” motor with a brand “M”
VFD? How would you enforce this compatibility based on your
specification criteria?
To make it even more interesting, would you be able to defend
your decisions based on your specification and the definition of
whatever term your specifications use in a discussion with an attor-
ney in a construction mediation or deposition for a lawsuit where a
supplier or contractor provided a motor you claimed didn’t comply
with your design intent? What if the motor failed prematurely?
What would you consider a premature failure of a motor, and do
you specify the motor life in your contract documents, when VFDs
are used? Does the motor manufacturer give a warranty for any
type of motor used with a VFD, and, if so, under what “limited”
warranty conditions?
If you subscribe to one of the “master” specification products
does it cover motor and VFD drive compatibility issues in a man-
ner that is appropriate and defendable? Do the companies that
write these master specifications clearly define the terms or provide
industry standard references? If not, you may want to consider how
you would be able to review a submittal from a motor and drive
manufacturer that uses different terms other than what your speci-
fications use. If your specifications are not clear in terms, then you
have increased the risk of your client not getting what they thought
they were going to get when you discussed this issue in a design-
phase meeting prior to writing the specifications.
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FIGURE 1. Recommended motor protection. (Figure courtesy of Cerus Industrial.)
in January to stop by the motor and drive manufacturers’ booths to
discuss this topic with them. It may be like asking 10 engineers their
opinion: you could get 10 different opinions on how to best write
a spec that will ensure a motor is compatible with a VFD drive and
what the correct terms and definitions are. Be sure to discuss war-
ranty issues and be sure to not get caught up in marketing hype or
proprietary product criteria if your desire is to have a truly competi-
tive spec. Of course, be cautious of marketing hype at the booths
also. Your goal is to get the engineering truth, recognizing that there
are multiple ways to accomplish the same goal.
MARKETING RUN AMOK
It is enough to make a mechanical engineer’s head spin out of
control when trying to keep up with the changing technology of
motors and VFDs and the compatibility of the two when specified
for HVAC equipment such as fans and pumps. One quote from an
internet blog states, “Be careful. The marketing people are running
amok on these terms.”
I have often warned manufacturers’ marketing people to say
whatever they want to say to professional engineers as long as it can
be defended in court and they are willing to put it in writing with
their name on it. Amazing how this warning will slow down non-
engineering, non-technical marketing people.
Engineers, likewise, need to have clear specifications that are
not only defendable but that also allow for appropriate competitive
bidding of products that are truly equal in performance to meet the
specified functional criteria.
Where is the integrity of the motor and VFD industry manufac-
turers if they can’t agree on proper use of terms for specification
purposes? Is this a “buyer beware” concern for facility owners? How
much fingerpointing will occur if there is such confusion on how to
specify motors that can work with a VFD/inverter drive? Is NEMA
the entity that should step up and provide better clarity and a speci-
fication and motor/VFD design selection guide matrix? Should the
AMCA be involved in clarifying motor applications for fans under
varying speed conditions, or do the fan manufacturers not concern
themselves about how long a motor will last if they don’t build the
motor and simply provide what is specified?
Maybe ASHRAE should get together with CSI in a collab-
orative effort to educate manufacturers, suppliers, contractors,
and engineers about proper specification writing. Manufacturers’
guide specs with selective verbiage can make the spec a proprietary
specification. Engineers need to clarify the design intent when using
manufacturers’ guide specs. Basis-of-design products do not intend
to instruct one manufacturer to build a product the same way
another one does, since in general a consulting engineer is not a
product engineer taking the liability for a product design.
THE FOUR C’S OF CONTRACT DOCUMENTS
Engineers are at risk when they use marketing terms in motor
and VFD specifications that are not clearly defined by industry
standards or within the contract documents. Per CSI (www.csi-
net.com) contract documents should adhere to the four Cs: clear,
concise, complete, and correct. Without clear, concise, complete,
and correct contract documents, the bids will not be competitive,
and the enduser will likely not be getting appropriate products if
there is confusion in the process.
There are so many options, so many considerations, so many
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 Motors For Use With VFDs

ways to improperly specify motors and drives that can not only technique of variance in VFDs and transistors are used in that
cause incompatibility issues but that may also cause confusion for technique, every VFD manufacturer must choose how to address
bidders trying to determine if the spec can be trusted. the issue of voltage spikes. Most ignore it; however, some have part-
VFD, ASD, VSD — no matter what you call them, the intent is nered with manufacturers of reactors and filters to properly protect
generally the same: to vary a motor speed by varying the frequency motors based on two factors, voltage and distance.
of the voltage seen by the motor. Varying the motor speed serves Voltage, of course, refers to the input line voltage of the motor,
the purpose of varying the capacity of the piece of equipment for while distance is measured between the VFD and the motor. Sim-
either energy or flow control to satisfy some design criteria. But ply put, the higher the voltage (with corresponding higher voltage
this is a case where design intent can have a huge impact on inter- spikes) and longer the distance, the more possible damage to the
pretation if more definition is not provided in a set of contract motor. Figure 1 offers suggestions about which type of protection
document specifications. to be used based on those factors. These suggestions come from an
international leader in reactor manufacturing and have been proven
MOTOR LIFE over several years to be accurate (as opposed to a marketing ploy to
One challenge for the engineer is to understand just how low the sell more devices).
motor speed needs to go. This requires a good understanding of the Do any specifications really tell the supplier how long the motor
part-load operating condition of the application. How much “engi- for a fan or pump is supposed to last when used with a VFD drive?
neering” is really done when it comes to analyzing a building fan What about other solutions to the effects of VFDs on motor life,
or pump application to identify how much time a motor will be at such as shaft grounding kits? Do the manufacturers of ground-
various frequencies and the impact of this on the life of the motor? ing kits, reactors, and filters offer warranties on the motors their
Also, is there a way to perform a life cycle cost analysis on this? If a products protect? Is getting past the one-year product warranty
system will be at very low part-load conditions where the motor is acceptable to the engineer? Does every motor manufacturer have a
running hotter longer, is it worth spending more money on a better warranty on the life of a motor used with a VFD? Is this acceptable
motor than when a system is very rarely at low part-load conditions? to the facility owner maintenance manager?
Also, is the VFD being used as a way to balance a system in lieu of Before you answer these questions, give some thought to how
properly selecting a fan or pump and as an alternate less expensive an expected motor life could be determined. Is it a function of the
means of capacity control? operating conditions and installation? Are the full- and part-load
operating conditions accurately calculated by an engineer such
that it could even be determined how many hours a fan or pump
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function and fail for several reasons. Changes in motor torque may
Just how long is a motor expected to last when used with a VFD? not match the load requirements as the motor speed varies. The
One way to look at this issue is noted in a quote overheard several cooling airflow around the motor will be reduced as the motor
years ago, “Any motor will work with a VFD drive, but some will last speed is reduced, causing the motor to run hotter. Harmonics
longer than others.” from the controller may overheat the motor. Voltage spikes gener-
One brave VFD manufacturer has come forward to admit that ated by the output section of the variable-frequency controller
VFDs can adversely affect motors and suggests the use of protec- may cause the motor insulation to fail. Can these issues be totally
tion devices, based on a few variables. These devices, known as prevented with the proper specifications for motors and VFDs?
load reactors and output filters (also dv/dt or dual element filters), How are the specifications enforced through the bidding and
protect motor insulation from damage due to the voltage spikes submittal process to ensure the products actually provided and
and harmonics caused by the switching of transistors on the output installed are indeed compatible?
side of VFDs. These spikes are of very high frequency and voltage Most motor manufacturers have motors designed to tolerate the
compared to the power frequency seen by the motor; they can break effects of VFDs on motors. The terms used for these motors are not
down the motor winding insulation, and the harmonics can cause necessarily the same so a specification needs to essentially be written
heating of the windings and motor bearings. in a “Performance” specification method or a “Reference Standard”
As pulse-width modulation (PWM) has become the standard method instead of a “Descriptive” specification method. Care must

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Motors For Use With VFDs
be taken not to write a “Closed Proprietary” specification, based on
only one manufacturer’s product (unless that is what the facility
owner wants). Note: if you are not familiar with these specification
terms, it is recommended that you consider joining CSI and becom-
ing a CDT/CCS. Look at www.csinet.org for more information.
Most low-voltage, general-purpose motors are suitable for
operation with variable-frequency controllers for typical HVAC
applications, such as pumps and fans, which present the motors
with variable torque loads that reduce as speed is lowered. Many
energy- and premium-efficient motors have windings with an
insulation system that is specifically designed to withstand the volt-
age spikes from PWM drives as defined by NEMA MG-1. These
motors are frequently called inverter-ready. For constant torque
loads with a constant torque speed range of greater than 10:1, using
an inverter-duty motor with internal thermal protection and exter-
nally operated cooling fan should be considered.
Would below be a good specification for motors used with VFD
drives for HVAC fans and pumps? If not, why not? (Send in your
comments and suggestions to me at stevel@sppecss.com):
• All three phase motors (ODP or TEFC) used with VFDs for vari-
able torque applications shall be constructed in conformance with
NEMA Standard MG1, Part 31.4.4.2. This means 230 and 460
volt motors meet NEMA’s corona inception voltage requirements,
under MEMA MG1 Standardand can withstand peak voltages
of up to 1,600 volts, switching frequencies up to “xxx” ( “xxx”
depends on the specified VFD).
• Turndown: Motors shall be capable of a turndown ratio of 10:1.
• Windings: Copper magnet wire with moisture-resistant insulation
varnish, designed, and tested to resist transient spikes, high fre-
quencies, and short time rise pulses produced by PWM inverters.
• Class: Class F temperature rise; Class H insulation.
• Motors shall be compatible with VFDs using either power bipolar junc-
tion transistor (BJTs) or insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs).
• Thermal Protection: Comply with NEMA MG 1 Part 31.4.4.2
requirements for thermally protected motors.
• Provide a full product replacement and labor guarantee and war-
ranty ensuring complete compatibility of the motor with the VFD
drive such that the service life of the motor and VFD shall be a
minimum of one year under installed operating conditions.
ENERGY CONSIDERATIONS
Motor efficiency is a measure of the ability of a motor to convert elec-
trical energy into mechanical work. Electric motors have a significant
impact on overall energy use in the building industry. Is there a cor-
relation of motor energy efficiency and the energy savings provided
when VFDs are used? Does the use of a VFD on a motor affect the
energy efficiency of a motor in a way that would cause the motor to
be less efficient when not running at full speed, and is this taken into
account in any sort of true life cycle cost analysis in a fan or pump
selection based on a full- and part-load analysis of the building loads?
Does more research need to be done in the industry before VFDs are
so quickly used for convenience of TAB purposes if the energy effi-
ciency of the motor is lessened when used with a VFD?
The Energy Policy Act (EPAct) was signed into law on October
24, 1992 with an effective date of October 24, 1997. EPAct and
was aimed at conserving energy by increasing motor efficiencies
74 En gi n e e r e d S y stem s January 2012
for those electric motors responsible for the largest portion of the
electricity consumption.
The Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) was signed
into law December 19, 2007 with an effective date of December 19,
2010. EISA further raised the minimum efficiency levels mandated by
EPAct and requires motors previously covered by EPAct to now meet
the premium efficient (PE) levels defined in NEMA MG-1 (2006),
Table 12-12. It also added additional motor types that must meet the
Energy Efficient limits defined in NEMA MG-1 (2006), Table 12-11.
One question to be considered now is are all PE motors VFD
compatible if they meet NEMA MG-1, or is there more to consider
in the electrical system design?
TALK TO AN EE
It would be impossible for one article to cover all that is needed to
know when discussing motors and VFDs. It would probably be wise for
most mechanical engineers to consult with an electrical engineer who
is knowledgeable about motors, VFDs, and the entire electrical system
in a building when selecting and specifying electric motors and drives.
SUMMARY
In preparation for writing this article, the author solicited opinions
on what issues needed to be addressed. As you can imagine, there
were many more issues than space available, so this article was writ-
ten in part as food for thought for specifying engineers who deal
with this challenge on a daily basis. Several sources have been used
to write this article, too many to document. Suffice it to say that
there was not one single expert resource found that really addressed
all the concerns of engineers trying to specify motors and VFDs.
What has become obvious is that there is a huge need for the
motor and VFD industry to develop a “Designer’s Guide For Engi-
neers” in the HVAC Industry from a solid engineering perspective.
One last comment — this author readily admits to not being an
expert in the field of motors and drives and has written this article
in a manner to stimulate discussion in the industry to help clear
up some obvious confusion and marketing that is clearly meant to
generate proprietary specifications. ES
Liescheidt is the owner of SPPECSS Consult-
ing, LLC and has over 30 years experience in
the HVAC industry, including time spent in the
consulting engineering segment of the indus-
try, manufacturers’ sales rep segment of the
industry, and as a health care corporate engi-
neer. Reach him at stevel@sppecss.com.
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 This month, our life safety coverage arrives from the commissioning side. From design phase
to tips on navigating a seemingly untenable number of observations, and on to post-testing
tasks, here’s one consultant’s solid reference to keep you and your client from getting
unnecessarily alarmed.
BY TIM THATCHER, P.E.

B
uilding codes require fire alarm systems to be installed
in many buildings. If the scope of a commissioning plan
includes the fire alarm system, then the commissioning
consultant (CxC) will perform or be involved in activities
associated with these aspects of fire alarm system execution:
• Design review
• Test procedures
• System readiness checklists
• Testing
• Fire alarm program review
• Documentation of testing
• O&M manual review
• Training
• Warranty period review
OVERVIEW
Commissioning provides a fully functional fire alarm system, docu-
mentation of the fire alarm testing and documentation of how the
fire alarm system functions to the building owner and operators.
The CxC writes test procedures for the fire alarm system based on
the design documents. The test procedures provide instructions
to verify that the fire alarm system generates the design specified
responses to specific inputs. Inputs to the fire alarm system consist
mainly of detection devices, but some inputs consist of fault condi-
tions that provide warnings to the building operators.
DESIGN
If the commissioning plan includes participation of the CxC
during design development, then the CxC encourages formal
communication between the designers and the building owner.
The formal communication includes an owner’s project require-
ment (OPR) document, which lists the specific expectations of
the building owner for the fire alarm system.
During design review, the CxC reviews the specifications and
drawings based on the expectations listed in the OPR. Also, the
CxC usually reviews the design for clarity of the requirements
and for adequacy of testing requirements. An adequate testing
requirement would be: Test the fire alarm system in accordance
with NFPA-72 (National Fire Alarm Code) and verify all the
system reactions per the direction of the CxC.
The CxC usually does not review the design with respect to
code-related requirements such as the location and number of
fire alarm/detection devices. The fire marshal or other authori-
ties having jurisdiction review the design for code-related
requirements.
TEST PREPARATION
After the design phase, the CxC prepares a system readiness check-
list (SRC) and a fire alarm test procedure. The SRC contains items
that need to be marked off as complete by the fire alarm contractor
prior to the start of testing. The fire alarm test procedure contains
items that the CxC intends to witness.

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 The intent of the SRC is to document that the fire alarm A CxC becomes an expert at developing lists. For large fire
system is complete. The intent of the test procedure is to verify alarm systems with many devices, the CxC should request the fire
that the system is complete. The obvious distinction between the alarm contractor to print out a list of devices in the system. This
SRC and the test procedure is that a biased party (the contractor) list can be used for mark-up during testing instead of spending
completes the SRC and an owner’s representative (CxC) verifies hours developing a separate list in an original spreadsheet.
completion of the test procedure.
To a large extent, the CxC develops the SRC based upon past
experiences of finding incomplete work during testing. Incom- A CxC becomes an expert
plete work wastes the time of all the parties involved with testing.
Thus, the SRC contains such items as verifying:
at developing lists. For large
fire alarm systems with many
• All devices are installed
• All devices are wired to the control panel(s)
devices, the CxC should
• All devices’ electronic addresses are properly set requestt the fire allarm
• All programming is complete
• All interfaces with the sprinkler system are complete
contractor to print out a list
• No trouble indications are displayed at the control panel(s) of devices in the system.
This list can be used for
Ideally, the CxC prepares a fire alarm test procedure for issue
with the construction bid documents. The test procedure would mark-u up during testing instead
be a contract requirement that the bidders have had a chance to of spending hours developing
read and to develop a cost estimate for performance of the test.
However, the time period between the completion of the design a separate list in an original
documents and the design issue for bid usually does not leave spreadsheet.
time to develop a test procedure. Thus, the CxC includes an
example test procedure in the bid documents. The example test
procedure contains all the elements of the required testing. TESTING
The CxC develops the final test procedure for use in the field A typical fire alarm system test includes:
towards the end of the construction project. While preparing the
fire alarm test procedure, the CxC reviews miscellaneous project • Smoke detectors
documents in addition to the bid documents’ requirements. • Pull-stations
The miscellaneous project documents include the fire alarm • Strobe lights
system submittal, design documents addenda, changeorders, and • Horns and/or speakers
requests for information. • Flow switches (sprinkler water)
The CxC test procedure includes all test items indicated in • Tamper switches (sprinkler water valves)
NFPA-72 that are applicable to the specific installation plus the • Control panels
specific requirements of the project documents.
The CxC test procedure includes action statements for testing A typical fire alarm system provides signals to provide the following
individual devices such as “activate all smoke detectors,” “activate for an alarm event:
all pull stations,” or “simulate a fault condition.”
Prior to testing, the CxC develops detailed spreadsheets that • Audible and visual alarm
list all the devices to be activated and all fault conditions to be • Smoke damper closure
simulated. Each item of each list needs to be marked as complete • HVAC shutdown
by the CxC during testing.
In addition to documenting individual device tests, the test The start of fire alarm system testing usually involves the fire
procedure needs to include a means to document fire alarm sys- marshal (or other authority have jurisdiction) and the CxC. The
tem responses to device activation. Often, the design documents fire marshal’s testing has priority, and he will direct the testing.
indicate the required system reaction in a matrix (table) format. However, many fire marshals perform limited testing. The CxC
The various categories of devices would be in the first column of documents the testing performed by the fire marshal, and then
the matrix. The various system reactions would be in the first row (or after the fire marshal completes his testing, the CxC directs the
heading) of the matrix. The interior boxes of the matrix would be remainder of the testing.
marked with an “X” to indicate which reactions are required for which The following paragraphs describe testing as if the CxC directed
device activation. The test procedure could include a blank version the entire testing and in roughly the sequence that the author of this
of the matrix to be marked-up during testing. Or, the test procedure article would conduct testing.
could contain a list of each device category with the required system After a test coordination discussion with the fire alarm contrac-
reactions itemized (sub-list) for each device category. Each sub-list tor, the CxC requests the activation of a detection device such as a
item needs to be marked complete by the CxC during testing. smoke detector or pull-station. Smoke detectors are activated using

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“canned smoke” (a special spray) and, obviously, the pull station is
activated by hand.
After the device activates, the CxC walks the entire building to
verify that all the strobe lights and horns (or speakers) function.
The CxC carries the fire alarm layout drawing in order to verify
the devices’ locations are per the design. The CxC uses a decibel
meter to measure alarm sound levels in building spaces that seem
relatively quiet. Fifteen decibels above ambient noise levels is the
normal acceptance criterion. Often, most building areas have obvi-
ously adequate alarm sound levels so that decibel measurements are
not necessary in all areas.
Activation of audible and
visual devices by zones,
instead of the whole building,
is another example of a fire
allarm conttroll program
function. In short, the fire
alarm control program
receiives an inpput off a fire
alarm and then generates
signals to operate devices
in the desired manner. All of
the operated devices can be
thought of as electrical relays
that are either open or closed.
After verification that the strobe lights and horns function the fire
alarm system response can be “silenced” (an override at the control
panel) for testing all the remaining detection devices. This testing will
verify for each device that it does activate and provides the proper
signal to the fire alarm control panel: device electronic address and
device name. The device electronic address is a unique identification
number and the device name is a brief description of the device. The
device name usually includes the device location (room number) and
the device type (smoke detector or waterflow switch).
The CxC can verify that each detection device will initiate an
alarm event by reviewing the fire alarm system program. For a sim-
ple fire alarm system, the program contains a list of each detection
device (listed by device address). The fire alarm program provides
the same system response (alarm) for the activation of each device in
the list. The CxC verifies that the list contains each detection device
shown on the fire alarm layout drawing.
Depending upon the availability of the fire sprinkler system con-
tractor, the CxC will test the flow and tamper switches before or after
testing all the other detection devices.
For flow-switch testing, the sprinkler contractor opens the flow-
test valve. The sprinkler water flows through the sprinkler system pipe
into a drain pipe (which is often permanently installed for sprinkler
flow testing). The alarm signal to the fire alarm system from the flow
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switch must occur in less than 60 sec and preferably after a delay of
about 25 sec or more. A flow switch adjusted to alarm quickly (5 to 10
sec) could cause spurious future alarms during normal building use
because in some sprinkler pipe systems’ water pressure surges cause
enough water flow to activate the flow switch. The CxC tests tamper
switches by opening and closing the valve with the tamper switch.
The acceptance criterion is that the tamper switch must activate
prior to the valve wheel being fully rotated three times from the
full-open position. Tamper switch activation initiates a supervisory
condition at the fire alarm control panel to indicate that the valve is
closed (or more precisely, not full-open). The CxC should fully close
the valve in order to verify that the tamper switch remains activated
through the entire motion of the valve steam. Tamper switches are
not high-tech devices, and sometimes the installation configuration
causes the tamper switch to indicate the valve is closed at “three rota-
tions” but open for the full-closed position of the valve stem.
If the design requires the fire alarm system to provide shutdown
signals to smoke dampers and HVAC equipment (AHUs), the CxC
needs to verify these system reactions. For some systems, any alarm
device activation causes all smoke dampers and HVAC equipment to
shutdown. For other systems, only duct smoke detectors will cause
smoke dampers and HVAC equipment to shutdown. If any device
causes shutdown, then the CxC activates one device and checks all
the smoke dampers for closure and HVAC equipment for shutdown.
As similarly explained for the strobe and horn activation, the fire
alarm program contains a list of alarm devices that cause smoke
damper and HVAC equipment shutdown. The CxC reviews the pro-
gram list to verify that list contains all the alarm devices (addresses).
Duct smoke detectors are important specialty devices to detect
smoke in the HVAC system. Normally, the duct smoke detector
consists of a smoke detector (head) in a plastic box mounted on the
duct with two air probe tubes (metal) connected from the plastic
box to the interior of the duct. One air probe tube traverses the
width of the duct and has air holes that face into the airflow (and the
end of the tube plugged). The other air probe tube does not have any
air holes except that the end of the tube is open. The path of airflow
(and any smoke) is into the holes facing the airflow to the plastic
box and back into the duct via the tube with the open end. Smoke
passing through the box activates the smoke detector.
Testing them consists of three parts. The CxC tests the smoke detec-
tor by spraying canned smoke onto the detector (just like normal smoke
detectors) and then checking for smoke damper and HVAC shutdown.
Then, after system reset, differential air pressure between the two tubes
is measured. This involves opening the plastic box and attaching the
air pressure gage plastic tubes to the open ends of the air probe tubes
which enter the box. Attachment of the plastic tubes requires adaptors
made out of a plastic (or cork) plug with a hole and metal fitting for the
plastic tube. The required minimum differential pressure is 0.015 in. wc
for most duct smoke detector configurations. A typical maximum dif-
ferential pressure is 2 in. wc, which essentially is never an issue.
The third part of the duct smoke detector testing pertains to review
of how the airflow is controlled in the duct. Many HVAC systems have
variable airflow. The CxC needs to determine the HVAC operating
mode with the lowest airflow, and CxC activates that HVAC operating
mode, repeating the differential airflow measurement to verify the dif-
ferential pressure is above minimum. It is not unusual for duct smoke
detectors configurations to fail this low-airflow test.
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 With the field devices and fire alarm system responses tested, the
CxC verifies field wiring fault detection features of the fire alarm
control panel(s). The control panel will provide “trouble” signals
to the building operators if a field wiring circuit has: (a) an open
circuit, (b) a grounded circuit, (c) a short circuit, or (d) a smoke
detector head that is not installed on the detector base.
The CxC simulates an open circuit by disconnecting one wire
at the control panel terminal block for the field wiring circuit;
grounded circuit by connecting (“jumping”) a wire from one field
circuit wire at the control panel terminal block to the (grounded)
control panel enclosure; and short circuit by connecting (jumping)
both ends of a field wiring circuit at the terminal block. Creating a
short has a slight potential of damaging control panel interior solid
state devices, and permission should be sought from the fire alarm
system technician beforehand. The CxC tests for a missing detector
head by removing the smoke detector head from its base. Experi-
ence has indicated that these fault detection features essentially
never fail to properly provide trouble signals.
Complex fire alarm systems in large buildings consist of some or
all of these attributes:
• Hundreds of smoke detectors
• Zoned strobes and horns
• Zoned HVAC shutdown
• Zoned smoke damper closure
• Door closure (magnetic devices)
• Elevator recall
• Smoke control
For large systems with hundreds of detectors and many activated
devices (dampers, doors, HVAC, smoke control) it is impractical to
physically observe all system reactions for each of the many detectors.
If a system had 100 detectors, and each detector caused (on average)
10 smoke dampers to close, five doors to close, and two HVAC units
to shutdown, then physical observation of each device (damper, door,
HVAC) for each detector activation would mean 1,700 observations.
The following explains a relatively efficient method for testing.
A CxC will observe the action of each device within the complex
system. At least once, the CxC will observe smoke damper closure,
door closures, and elevator recall. Likewise, the CxC observes HVAC
shutdown and smoke control startup in order to verify that control
hardware components (wires and relays) create the desired action.
In essence, the CxC observes that each electrical relay operated by
the fire alarm system does initiate the desired mechanical reaction.
Once the mechanical reactions have been observed, then the opera-
tion of the fire alarm program needs to be verified.
For a large, complex fire alarm system, the fire alarm contractor
writes a fire alarm control program to operate the system in accor-
dance with the design requirements. As mentioned previously, the
design documents often indicate the required system reaction in a
matrix (table) format. The design requirements indicate what system
devices are activated based on which detector signals a fire event.
Often, the detectors are grouped into zones and the fire alarm system
devices are activated based upon which zone has a fire event. The fire
alarm control program provides the logic for activating the devices.
For example, a high-rise building with smoke control could
have each floor as a separate fire zone. The fire alarm control pro-
gram operates smoke control equipment in a particular manner
to contain smoke based upon which zone (floor) has a fire event.
Activation of audible and visual devices by zones, instead of the
whole building, is another example of a fire alarm control program
function. In short, the fire alarm control program receives an input
of a fire alarm and then generates signals to operate devices in the
desired manner. All of the operated devices can be thought of as
electrical relays that are either open or closed.
The link between the fire alarm control program and the physical
devices (relays) of the fire alarm system is the addresses (identification
numbers) of the devices. In a fire alarm system, each device has a unique
address. The detectors have addresses and these are the inputs (on/off) to
the program. The relays have addresses and these are the outputs (open/
close) of the program. The fire alarm system will not respond correctly
if the addresses are incorrect. During field testing, the CxC verifies the
address of each device by observing that the address is correctly displayed
on the fire alarm control panel when that device is activated.
For fire alarm program review, the CxC obtains a printout of
the fire alarm control program. The program logic for each design-
required fire alarm system reaction must be verified. For some pro-
grams this may mean tracing the program logic for each fire detector.
Usually, for zoned fire alarm systems, tracing the program logic for
each group (zone) of detectors verifies the control program function.
For any program logic that is not decipherable, the CxC requests
assistance from the fire alarm system technician (or programmer).
Many fire alarm systems have a history log that will show the
time at which the system activated relays. The log can be reviewed
after a simulated (or real) fire event to determine which devices
(strobes, horns, dampers, HVAC, etc.) were activated. Obviously,
this can be a great assistance to testing the system. Depending upon
the size and complexity of the fire alarm system, reviewing the
history log for the activation of each and every detector may be as
efficient or more efficient than reviewing the fire alarm control pro-
gram. Or, the history log can be used in conjunction with a listing
of the fire alarm control program to analyze the fire alarm system.
Upon completion of field testing, the CxC reviews the testing
documents for completion to ensure each device and system reac-
tion has been checked off. For any equipment failures, the CxC
provides a report to the project team.
The familiarity with the fire alarm system that the CxC obtains
allows the CxC to perform a rigorous review of the O&M manual
for the system. Also, if the commissioning plan includes training, the
CxC can assist with the on-site training of the building operators.
During the normal one-year warranty period, the CxC periodi-
cally contacts the building operators to ask about system problems.
If the system has persistent problems, then the CxC can assist with
initiating and conducting a meeting with the contractors to address
the problems. ES
Thatcher works as a mechanical engineer for
Questions & Solutions Engineering, Inc. (Chas-
ka, MN). He performs HVAC and fire alarm
commissioning of new and existing buildings
as well as energy studies of existing buildings.
His fire alarm commissioning projects include
the Pentagon and the Cleveland Art Museum.
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2012 AHR Expo Innovation Award
category winners
 The winners of the prestigious 2012 AHR Expo Innovation
Awards have been chosen and will be honored at a special
ceremony during the world’s largest HVACR exposition and confer-
ence in Chicago on January 24th.
Representing a broad cross-section of the HVACR marketplace,
the winning entries were selected in 10 categories and represent
the most innovative new products among the thousands that will
be displayed at the show. A panel of judges, made up of ASHRAE
members, evaluated the products submitted based on innovation,
application, value to the user, and market impact.
Making products ranging from a wall-mounted solar air heater
to a mobile toolbox for contractors, many well-known industry
leaders will share the stage with companies new to the competition.
Emerson Climate Technologies was the big winner, capturing
three of the top ten awards. The winners of the 2012 AHR Expo
Innovation Awards are:
Building Automation
Company: Geofinity Manufacturing Inc.
Product: ORB Heat Pump Controller
Cooling
Company: Emerson Climate Technologies
Product: Copeland Scroll Variable Speed Compressor
Green Building
Company: ClimaCool Corp.
Product: SHC onDEMAND™ Simultaneous Heating and Cooling
Heat Pump System
Heating
Company: Enerconcept Technologies Inc.
Product: The Lubi Wall Wall-mounted Solar Air Heater
IAQ
Company: E+E Elektronik Ges. m.b.H.
Product: EE245 Wireless Transmitter
Plumbing
Company: Rheem Manufacturing Company
Product: The Rheem XR90 Extreme Recovery Gas Water Heater
Refrigeration
Company: Emerson Climate Technologies
Product: Copeland Scroll K5 Refrigeration Compressor
Software
Company: Emerson Climate Technologies
Product: Emerson Climate Technologies HVACR Mobile Toolbox
For Contractors
Tools & Instruments
Company: Fluke Corporation
Product: Fluke TiR1 Thermal Imager
Ventilation
Company: Melink Corporation
Product: Intelli-Hood Kitchen Ventilation Control
82 En gi n e e r e d Sy stem s January 2012
One of the 10 category winners will also be selected as the
winner of the 2012 AHR Expo Product of the Year Award. Win-
ners receive placards to display at their booths during the Show as
well as an etched crystal award to be displayed at their company’s
headquarters. In addition, 31 other products are recognized with
Honorable Mentions in these same 10 categories and will also be
given placards to display in their booths.
There were a record number of companies entering the competi-
tion this year. The nearly $12,000 generated by the entry fees will be
donated to a charitable organization in the Chicago area. Since the
inception of the Innovation Award Competition in 2003, more than
$100,000 has been donated to charitable organizations and educa-
tional institutions in the cities where the Expo was held.
“We are honored to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Innova-
tion Awards because it is so meaningful to the HVACR industry,” said
Clay Stevens, president of International Exposition Company, which
produces and manages the AHR Expo. “It encourages innovation,
recognizes excellence and enables us to help charitable organizations.”
The Honorable Mentions go to:
Building Automation
Company: American Auto-Matrix
Product: AspectFT Product Family Energy Management and BAS Solution
Company: Delta Controls Inc.
Product: Delta Controls DVC-V322PoE BACnet Advanced Applica-
tion Controller
Company: Emerson Climate Technologies
Product: Copeland Scroll Compressor with CoreSense Communications
Cooling
Company: ClimateMaster, Inc.
Product: Tranquility 22 Digital Series Geothermal Heat Pump
Company: Danfoss Turbocor Compressors
Product: TT400 380V High-efficiency Compressor
Company: Enertech Global, LLC
Product: GeoComfort Compass GXT Series Vertical Geothermal
Heat Pump
Company: McQuay International
Product: Daikin McQuay Rebel Commercial Rooftop Unit
Company: Seeley International (Americas)
Product: Breezair Icon Series evaporative air Conditioner
Green Building
Company: Columbus Industries, Inc.
Product: MICRO SHIELD Mini Pleat Filter
Company: Enertech Global, LLC
Product: TETCO Geothermal ES4 Series TXT Vertical Heat Pump
Company: Lochinvar, LLC
Product: Strato-Therm+ Solar Thermal Storage Tank Heating
Company: Lochinvar, LLC
Product: CREST Condensing Boiler
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(ASHRAE); the Air-Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration Insti-

Company: Mestek, Inc. tute (AHRI); and the International Exposition Company (IEC),
Product: HeatNet Integrated Control Platform Condensing Hydronic
producers and organizers of the AHR Expo.
Heating Boiler
For more information on the AHR Expo Innovation Awards,
Company: Uponor visit www.ahrexpo.com.
Product: Radiant Ready 30E Mechanical Room Package
Book offers guidance on
IAQ
Company: Building Automation Products, Inc. implementing energy savings plans

Product: CO2 Sensor Guidance on increasing energy efficiency in existing build-
ings through measuring and tracking efficiency and imple-
Company: Panasonic Home & Environment Company menting an efficiency plan is featured in a new book from lead-
Product: WhisperSense-Lite Ventilation Fan-light
ing built environment organizations.
Company: Sanuvox Technologies Inc.
Energy Efficiency Guide for Existing Commercial Buildings:
Product: Sanuvox R+ In-Duct UV System Technical Implementation provides clear and easily understood
technical guidance for energy upgrades, retrofits, and renovations
Plumbing by which building engineers and managers can achieve at least a
Company: CAN2GO (SCL Elements Inc.) 30% improvement in energy performance relative to a range of
Product: CAN2GO DA2 Intelligent Wireless Valve Actuator benchmark energy utilization indexes. It features practical means
and methods for planning, executing and monitoring an effective
Company: Webstone Company, Inc. program, based on widely available techniques and technologies.
Product: Hydro-Core Hydronic Manifold System “Energy efficiency improvement in buildings is one of the great-
est means to increase resource efficiency, improve environmental
Refrigeration
stewardship and save operating funds,” George Jackins, who chaired
Company: Alfa Laval Inc. Product: AXP Brazed Heat Exchanger
Company: Testo, Inc. Product: Testo 570 Refrigeration System Analyzer the committee overseeing the book, said. “More importantly, energy
efficient improvement should happen because it makes good busi-
Software ness sense. Good planning and ongoing commitment is essential to
Company: Alerton maximizing investments in energy efficiency.”
Products: Alerton Building Suite 3 Automation/Energy Management Improving energy in an existing building is an iterative pro-
Software cess, but first you have to know where you are starting from,
according to Jackins. The book recommends some tips on how
Company: Data-Basics, Inc. to begin the energy savings process:
Product: TechAnywhere Mobile Field Service Software
• Calculate energy use and cost
Company: J2 Innovations
Product: FIN Builder Building Automation Software • Set energy performance goals
• Measure and analyze current energy use
Company: Service Automation, Inc. • Select and implement energy efficiency measures
Product: SAWIN MOBILE Wireless Service Software • Measure and report improvements
• Continue to track performance and reassess goals
Instruments
Company: Appion Inc. Energy Efficiency Guide for Existing Commercial Buildings:
Product: Tez Speed System HVAC System Evacuator Technical Implementation is the second energy efficient guide
for existing commercial buildings developed by the same group
Company: Fieldpiece Instruments, Inc.
developing at the Advanced Energy Design Guide series for new
Product: LT17AW Digital Multimeter
buildings – ASHRAE, the American Institute of Architects, the
Company: Goodway Technologies Corp. Illuminating Engineering Society of North America and the
Product: RAM Pro Tube Cleaner USGBC and supported by the DOE. In addition, the Building
Owners and Managers Association and the U.S. General Services
Ventilation Administration were involved in its development.
Company: American Louver Company The first, Energy Efficiency Guide for Existing Commercial Build-
Product: EP Diffuser ings: The Business Case for Building Owners and Managers, provides
the rationale for making economic decisions related to improving
Company: DuctSox Corporation
and sustaining energy efficiency in existing buildings.
Product: SkeleCore In-duct Cylindrical Tensioning Device
The cost of Energy Efficiency Guide for Existing Commercial Build-
Company: Ruskin Company ings – Technical Implementation is $75 ($64, ASHRAE members). To
Product: HPG3845 FEMA Grille order, contact ASHRAE Customer Contact Center at 1-800-527-4723
(United States and Canada) or 404-636-8400 (worldwide), fax 404-
The Innovation Awards are jointly sponsored by the American 321-5478, or visit www.ashrae.org/bookstore. ES
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ProductsInFocus
 BOILERS  VALVES
The WM97+ boiler is a wall mount boiler that comes in 70,000
and 110,000 Btu input models, both at a AFUE rating of 97%.
The WM97+ offers a unique condensing stainless steel heat ex-
changer, built-in boiler circulator, and a built-in primary second-
ary option.

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existing BAS protocols such as BACnet. Tradition-
A single three-way valve eliminates
ally, UV disinfection systems are static systems. By
extra overhead, installation time, and
automating the UV disinfection applied to air han-
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dler coils to match variable HVAC usage, building
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The company has released new differential pressure
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making it suitable for long-term battery operation. The
SDP606 and SDP616 sensors are designed to enter
sleep mode after performing each measurement. They
wake up when a “measure” command is received and enter sleep mode again after com-
pleting the measurement. The operation currents of a standard SDP600 sensor can be
high as 6 mA, but the new SDP6x6 sensor is optimized for operating currents no greater
The company has released an en-
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mercial Comfort Systems (YCCS), a
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over bypass or VAV-zoned systems, application. EC-NetAX EnerVue allows users to quickly identify issues,
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Literature&Catalogs
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The company’s PUMP-FLO software allows users
to search across a manufacturer's pump catalog to
generate a dynamic pump curve based on a system
design point search. Additional search criteria include
fluid properties, motor sizing, NPSH calculations,
pump limits, and system operating points. Once a
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The company’s 52-page catalog details
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A brochure featuring rooftop inducers is now
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 Tomorrow’sEnvironment
BY HOWARD MCKEW, P.E., C.P.E.

THANK YOU, Steve Jobs

The hard part was more about presentation and persuasion than waiting
on technology.


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How ble
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year writing this column. During that time, I wrote 30 of
my 240 columns about O&M, touching on topics such the
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becoming reality is not because of my writing, but thanks to Steve some
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talked about 19th-century brass valve tags and the idea of barcoded
identification tags using handheld devices to scan and read infor-
entering a men’s room).
mation from the iPad. I thought this was a no-brainer, but nothing
much happened until recently. improved customer satisfaction, which is a win-win with facility
During this time, Steve Jobs’ company was continuously champi- image being elevated based on customer satisfaction.
oning his vision of handheld technology while, unbeknown to him, Inherent with most computerized database is the ability to collect,
I was writing about the potential of this technology in the building sort, and report on each aspect of building management when handheld
industry. How he was able to get much of the world’s population, devices and facility management programs are used. Today, because
without complaining, to use their oversized fingers and thumbs to iPad- and iPod-armed operators and technicians are fluent in using
send text messages on tiny computerized, wireless devices has been these devices, asset management and data collection is achievable.
amazing to observe (although I do believe some of these disciples need While Steve Jobs probably didn’t have facility management on his
to put their handheld devices away when entering a men’s room). mind when thinking about all this really cool technology, he sure has
In a discussion with Amanda McKew, who writes “The Facility made the difference today for those proactive managers who know
Files,” she noted that with today’s iPad junkies, we can say there that by having the design team specify what they really need in Divi-
is hope that we have finally left the 20th century behind. Her firm sion 1 of a building program’s contract specification, they have dis-
is helping to modernize facility management by developing pro- placed 20th-century technology (“Tomorrow’s Engineer,” May 2005).
grams using wireless technology. After going back and looking at With routine data input occurring as the O&M department uses
some 30 columns I had published on facility management, Amanda their tablet computer, iPod, iPad, etc., the information can be just
showed me what her company has been doing in sync with most of as easily brought out of the server’s database with the click of a
the ideas I wrote about. Today, it is possible to deliver a proactive icon on the computer’s toolbar. As a result, a facility manager can
maintenance management system (“CMMS Ready on Day One of efficiently convert the performance information into a pie chart
Occupancy,” February 2004). The estimated cost is 1/10 of 1% of the or Gantt chart so the layperson can understand the historical data,
construction cost to have a CMMS in place, asset database populat- breakout of utility consumption, completed workorders, com-
ed, PM workorder documents, and iPad (or other handheld devices) plaint reductions over the past year, etc. A picture is worth a 1,000
programmed and ready to go. This strategically planned facility words, and Steve Jobs made pictures part of 21st-century facility
management approach can be, and is, connected to the Internet via management through computer technology.
a wireless connection so that access, monitoring, and documenting Want to know more? E-mail Amanda
can be done efficiently and in a timely manner. at amckew@interprosoft.com and she can
So, after all these years of suggesting there was a better way, there share with you how facility management can
are facility managers today who are saying that handheld devices, be at the touch of your finger. ES
computerized O&M programs, and open-protocol access to the
operating system is their standard operating procedure. You can reach McKew at hmckew@bss-con-
Through the use of time-tested, web-based technology, build- sultant.com for business development plan-
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For more online publications, visit www.build-
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