Air Ventilation News & Trends

Cross Country Home Services (CCHS), a pioneer in the home services industry and the nation’s second largest home warranty provider, announces a companywide rebranding to Cinch Home Services Inc. (Cinch). The new identity illustrates Cinch’s modern, tech-forward approach and marks a key milestone in the organization’s efforts to drive the sector forward by delivering the industry’s strongest and most diversified home service solutions. Armed with state-of-the-art technolo...

The 2020 AHR Expo announced its full schedule of sessions for the 2020 Education Program, including more than 200 free seminars, new product and technology presentations, professional certifications and continuing education courses. Each year, the Education Program discusses some of HVACR’s biggest opportunities and challenges through a series of comprehensive, informative and industry-focused sessions hosted by leaders from every sector of the industry. This year, the AHR Expo will add a...

The term of Amit Ahuja, 2019-2020 president of Air Movement and Control Association (AMCA) International Inc., is underway, following the organization’s 2019 Annual Meeting October 2-6 in Maui, Hawaii. AMCA truly is a global association, Ahuja, who is managing director of Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates-based Maico Gulf LLC, said, adding that the focus of his presidency will be achieving greater cooperation and cohesiveness among the regions AMCA represents. Advising Global Governme...

The Air Conditioning Contractors of America (ACCA) is holding two back-to-back fall meetings, bringing together hundreds of contracting professionals for industry-lead educational programs and networking events from November 5-8 at the Crown Plaza in Dayton, Ohio. ACCA Next Level (November 5-6) addresses the challenges and opportunities facing emerging talent in the contracting industry. ACCA’s popular Service Managers Forum (November 7-8) features educational programs that help contracto...

A new study by Harvard’s School of Public Health, SUNY Upstate Medical, Syracuse University, and United Technologies, titled “Economic, Environmental and Health Implications of Enhanced Ventilation in Office Buildings,” finds that doubling the ventilation rates in office buildings returns up to $6500 worth of productivity gains per person, per year. The study also finds that using energy recovery ventilation mitigates the extra energy costs from increased ventilation. This wo...

Special considerations must be made when replacing an energy recovery wheel in an existing HVAC unit. Transporting and installing wheels into limited access areas is a challenge, often requiring special handling equipment and lifts. Airxchange eliminates these challenges with modular assemblies that are designed for easy transport and assembly in limited access areas.

Airxchange’s modular wheel design has been recognized by the leading HVAC trade publication in their yearly showcase of products and services that offer a competitive advantage to onsite engineers and contractors. Unlike competing products, all Airxchange energy recovery wheels are designed to enable facility managers and contractors to quickly replace any energy recovery wheel, regardless of the original manufacturer or configuration. Airxchange energy recovery wheels Our cost-effectiv...

After over 20 years of reliable operation, the energy recovery ventilation (ERV) system serving Harley Davidson’s corporate headquarters was due for an upgrade. Joe Langfeldt, an HVAC engineer for Harley Davidson, contacted Airxchange to determine if there was a way to restore or replace the energy recovery wheels in the system, in order to avoid the high cost of a complete ventilator unit replacement. Unique design feature of the Airxchange wheels He learned that a unique design featur...

Many food and beverage organizations are accelerating both business realignment and technology digitization in order to improve safety and drive productivity. Their challenge is to maintain high quality while still conforming to ever more aggressive regulatory policies. In food and beverage manufacturing environments where chemicals, seeds and grains are involved, high fire protection measures are required in order to both maximize human safety and to minimize the risk of power loss- induced di...

The Sentinel™ system from Sensaphone® uses cloud technology to provide supervised 24/7 remote monitoring of changes in environmental conditions and the functioning of critical equipment. It allows operators to remotely monitor conditions like temperature, humidity, ventilation, soil moisture, carbon dioxide and power failure at fruit growing operations to protect valuable plants and equipment from damage. environmental conditions change Alerts When the Sentinel system detects that a...

LIXIL Americas, pioneer of water and housing products within the brands American Standard, GROHE and DXV brands, announced the promotion of Mark Bunting to Chief Financial Officer. Bunting will report directly to Adam Bryson, Chief Financial Officer, LIXIL International Ltd. “We’re thrilled to appoint Mark into his new role. He will make an immediate impact and will play an integral role on the LIXIL Americas’ Executive Team.” said Bryson. “Mark’s depth of in...

Johnson Controls International plc, has named Michael Ellis, executive vice president and chief customer and digital officer effective Oct. 14, 2019. In this newly created role, Ellis will serve as an officer of the company and oversee Johnson Controls digital strategy, innovation and execution, working closely with customers to drive new growth and value opportunities across the globe. Ellis most recently served as global managing director of Accenture where he advised Fortune 1000 CEOs in dev...

Modern manufacturing facilities are highly automated and use large numbers of variable speed drives (VSDs), programmable logic controllers and equipment with embedded microprocessors. These kinds of devices can all produce harmonic pollution that leads to nuisance breaker trips, device malfunction, data loss and premature equipment failure. Another PQ issue is poor Power Factor (PF) – a measure of electrical system efficiency. The main contributors to lower PF are inductive loads such as...

After 15 very years of successful collaboration, Danfoss is bidding farewell to one of its most acknowledged products in HVAC heating and cooling systems, the AB-QM Pressure Independent balancing and Control Valve (PICV). AB-QM PICV and its pressure independent functionality totally changed the market of hydronic balancing and control valves for terminal units in non-residential buildings. AB-QM 4.0 PICV valves The valves are designed for use in combination with the Danfoss NovoCon S digital...

AAON, Inc., global manufacturer of heating and cooling products, has selected Sospes’ EHS management software as its environmental, health and safety platform partner for its operations in Oklahoma, Texas and Missouri. AAON products are regularly recognized as industry-leading, most recently winning awards in July 2019 for excellence in product design in the 16th annual Dealer Design Awards Program. Sospes’ EHS management software Sospes’ EHS software improves communication...

Schneider Electric, the pioneer in energy management and automation, presented its vision for ‘Apps & Analytics Driving Predictive Maintenance’ at Hornbill’s Plant Asset Life Management (PALM) seminar 2019 at the Cardiff City Stadium on the 8th October. The new Easergy P3 and P5 protective relays from Schneider, which feature enhanced capabilities for predictive maintenance and arc flash prevention, as well as the T300 remote terminal unit (RTU), were also on show. The PAL...

Air Movement and Control Association (AMCA) International Inc. presents its Distinguished Service Award to three individuals—Rad Ganesh, PhD, PE, director, product applications, Twin City Fan Companies Ltd., Tim Mathson, principal engineer, AMCA, and Bob Valbracht, PE, vice president of engineering, Loren Cook Co. —during its 2019 Annual Meeting Oct. 5 in Maui, Hawaii. Fan-System Regulatory Compliance Rad Ganesh, PhD, PE, has over 32 years of experience in the air-movement industry...

The Air Conditioning Contractors of America (ACCA) has submitted public comments to the Department of Energy, opposing mandates to replace non-condensing furnaces with condensing furnaces. The Department of Energy sought out input on imposing energy conservation standards that would make atmospherically vented (non-condensing) gas products, such as furnaces and water heaters unavailable, and asked for comments on the impact that a mandated switch to non-condensing products would have on consume...

Greenheck model DS high volume low speed (HVLS) fan received the gold level recognition as a Consulting Specifying Engineer (CSE) 2019 Product of the Year. The award, voted on by the publication’s readers, was selected as the top product of the year in the Air Movement & Humidification category. Model DS was highlighted in the September awards issue of Consulting Specifying Engineer. The HVLS fan offers eight sizes ranging from 8 to 24 feet in diameter and has an optimized design for...

For the second consecutive year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recognized American Standard, part of LIXIL Americas, with a 2019 WaterSense Sustained Excellence Award for its efforts to defeat water waste and promote WaterSense in 2018. American Standard brand received one of 25 WaterSense awards at the WaterSmart Innovations Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. WaterSense product line American Standard was honored as a 2019 WaterSense Sustained Excellence Award winner for its Bea...

Triplegic injured warrior Adam Keys completed his bucketlist by trekking the 19,341-foot-high peak of Tanzania’s Mt. Kilimanjaro this year thanks in part to donations from FreshAire UV and its Patriot IAQ program to veterans’ charity Warrior Events, Annapolis, Maryland. Patriot IAQ is an indoor air quality (IAQ) equipment dealer program created by Fresh-Aire UV, Jupiter, Florida., where a portion of each sale’s proceeds are donated to veterans’ charities. Facebook fundr...

One of the first sign-ups for HVAC & Refrigeration LIVE 2020 is Pole Star Products. A main supplier of electric motors, fans and blowers to the heating, ventilating, refrigeration, air conditioning and vending machine markets, 2020 marks the company’s third outing with the show. Managing director Tony Cowood said: ”We will be exhibiting at the HVACR show for a third time – in the previous years we’ve had great feedback from existing customers and feel the face-to-fac...

Next year sees the launch of the UK’s only commercial and industrial event for the HVACR industry in the form of HVAC & Refrigeration LIVE, taking place from 20-22 April 2020. An unprecedented worldwide challenge which scientists have deemed “the biggest global health threat of the 21st century”, climate change is without doubt the most pressing issue of the time – and this sector has the power to turn things around. Providing A Platform For New Innovations Therefo...

In celebration of MFG Day (Manufacturing Day) 2019 on Friday, October 4th, AAON, Inc. is hosting students from Tulsa MET High School and Webster School, in partnership with Youth Entrepreneurs, for tours as part of an effort to highlight the modern manufacturing sector, which is a vibrant and growing industry that offers diverse, high-paying career opportunities and future prospects for students. MFG Day celebrations MFG Day, an annual national event held in communities across the United State...

The Air Conditioning Contractors of America (ACCA) hosted a roundtable discussion between officials from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and ACCA members, to discuss the refrigerant reclamation industry. The roundtable discussion focused on educating policy makers about refrigerant reclamation issues and was not related to any pending regulations or rulemakings. ACCA has an excellent working relationship with officials from the EPA’s Stratospheric Protection Division and regular...

Frank R. Cuaderno of Mars Air Systems was re-elected and Armin Hauer, Dipl.-Ing., of ebm-papst Inc. and Edmond Rizk, PE, of Ontario Specialty Architectural (OSA) Products were elected to the board of directors of Air Movement and Control Association (AMCA) International during the organization’s 2019 Annual Meeting in Maui, Hawaii. Cuaderno, who is vice president of engineering for Gardena, Calif.-based Mars Air Systems, maker of air curtains, has nearly 25 years of industry experience. H...

Larson Electronics, a Texas-based company with over 40 years of experience spearheading the industrial lighting and equipment sectors, announces the release of an explosion proof portable ventilation exhaust fan for improving air flow in combustible, confined and hazardous spaces. This exhaust-only fan is waterproof and compatible with 120V AC. This unit features non-sparking, non-metallic blades that actively prevent sparks from occurring. The EPF-VFP-12-120V-NFK-15C-16.3-EPP explosion proof v...

This new standard is effective with the 2019 edition of ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1-2019, energy standard for buildings except low-rise residential buildings. It is similar to the guidelines first established by the International Code Council (ICC), effective with its 2015 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC). However many states continued to defer to ASHRAE 90.1. The ASHRAE version mirrors but is not identical to the IECC. It spells out previously approved exceptions to the vestibule req...

Air Conditioning Contractors of America (ACCA) released the following statement from Barton James, ACCA President and CEO, regarding the confirmation of the Honorable Eugene Scalia to serve as the Secretary of Labor: “ACCA is pleased that the Senate confirmed Mr. Scalia to serve as the new Secretary of Labor. The Department of Labor plays a pivotal role, helping address the workforce challenges that contractors are facing. ACCA is thankful for the Senate's swift action to confirm him and...

Airxchange’s Energy Recovery Component selection software, AIRXWEB, is now AHRI Path A software compliant. Necessary investments were made in testing and software to be in full compliance to the requirements. Path A provides AHRI certified performance selections for the products over the entire range of operation, including full load, part load, and unequal airflows. Airxchange products With all Airxchange products complying with Path A Certification, it further ensures that all configu...