COVID-19: HVAC Filtration Best Practices

COVID-19 has presented numerous safety challenges to facility operations that has resulted in “new normal” best practices. Improved filtration is a cost-effective solution to improving HVAC operation and reducing virus transmission, but what is the right level of filtration for your HVAC system?  The answer depends on the equipment application.  We want to help operators…

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Facility Operations during COVID-19

The airborne nature of COVID-19 puts the epidemic — and its prevention and containment — front and center for HVAC professionals. We want our customers to be aware of what technology and solutions are available to help make their building environments incrementally safer.  For those buildings that remain open, a few actions related to HVAC…

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Design-build for an active Animal Research Facility

Wakefield, MA – Building Automation Systems recently completed a design-build project for an active research laboratory studying mice. The client had issues with their existing HVAC system maintaining temperature, humidity, and outside air ventilation setpoints that are optimum for the resident mice. To improve system operation, BAS’s project scope entailed a full engineering study, energy…

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RTU Design-Build Replacement Time-lapse

RTU Replacement Design-Build: Over one weekend, the BAS team installed a new 493 ton Seasons-4 roof top unit (RTU)  to replace an outdated Tempmaster RTU.  The new RTU was designed for exact alignment with the existing unit’s footprint.  The Seasons-4 unit alignment accounted for all of the old unit’s gas, chilled water, electric power, and…

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