Berner International News

Berner announced manufacturer representatives SRS Enterprises, Middletown, New Jersey, and S&J Equipment Co., Westfield, Indiana, received the company’s ‘Rep of the Year – 2018’ awards in the buy/resell and commission reps categories, respectively. Berner also honored four other manufacturer’s representative firms for outstanding 2018 sales achievements: Silver Award Buy/Resell Rep - Buck Nye, principal, H.C. Nye Co. Inc., Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Silver A...

The Revolvair™, the Air Curtain System for Revolving Doors, supports the expectation that lobbies are comfortable and welcoming. Berner International announces the Revolvair™ Air Curtain System for Revolving Doors. The RevolvAir™ allows buildings to meet the expectation that occupants can comfortably socialize, work, and hang out in the lobby. While revolving doors significantly reduce a building’s energy consumption, they are not ‘airtight’. The revolving do...

The Berner App, a first-of-its-kind air curtain app to control architectural air curtains from a smartphone, is available now at the Google Play Store and Apple App Store. The company also standardized its patented digital controller, the Intelliswitch™, across its product suite of air curtains in the Berner Architectural category. Easy To Use Air Curtain Operation Both the app and the roll-out of the Intelliswitch™ will serve to simplify and enhance the ease-of-use of air curtain...

Good news for building owners, engineers/architects, and HVAC contractors who can now save energy, construction costs, and space in commercial facilities with this latest approved code addition. Doorway air curtains were approved June 25, 2019 as alternatives to vestibules on most commercial building entries in the upcoming ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2019 “Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low Rise Residential Buildings.” The professional association’s approved addition requires...

Revolvair™ Air Curtain System for Revolving Doors are designed and engineered to reduce extreme hot or cold outdoor temperatures along with fumes that can adversely affect an indoor environment’s ambiance. It works to negate the airlock effect by keeping the lobby comfortable, which also reduces the building’s overall energy costs. Specifically-sized to fit each revolving door’s diameter, configuration, and brand, the product creates a separating air barrier at the build...

Berner’s recently-introduced Commercial High Performance 10 Series (CHD10) air curtain has been certified for electric heat by the Air Movement & Control Association (AMCA). The Commercial High Performance 10 Series joins Berner’s Architectural High Performance 10 (AHD10) and Architectural Recessed 12 (ARD12) air curtains in offering architects and engineers AMCA-certified heated and unheated choices to replace vestibules in building projects as per allowances by the Internation...

Berner received product performance certifications by the Air Movement & Control Association International (AMCA), Arlington Heights, Ill., in June for heating options on two of its designer air curtain series and in the autumn, for the heated version of the Commercial High Performance 10 air curtain. While Berner has offered AMCA certified ambient models for decades, now specifying engineers have the option of heat when selecting models to comply with the International Energy Conservation...

Berner International, the company that saves energy and creates healthy, comfortable environments, announced the addition of black as a standard color offering for their Sanitation Certified and Commercial air curtain series. Both black and white exteriors are available at no extra charge to their customers on these models. Made to Order In addition to the now standard black or white colors, Berner offers a wide range of custom colors and uses the RAL colors 1000 to 9023 chart. Berner also off...

Berner International Corp. has recently introduced the Berner Air Curtain Energy Savings Calculator, a user-friendly, online energy savings estimation tool accessible by any web browser for quick payback calculation and air curtain selection. The time-saving energy-savings calculator is a powerful air curtain energy savings computational tool in the industry because it also incorporates air curtain selection and return-on-investment calculations. Thus, the user gets energy savings, pa...