Tag Archives: HVAC

Building successful indoor cannabis cultivation facilities

October 23, 2018 nithya_caleb

Indoor cannabis production is a rapidly growing industry. Cannabis cultivation has unique requirements for landscaping, HVAC, and layout that must be taken into consideration when designing this type of facility.

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Toronto architects join Microsoft IoT lab

September 13, 2018 nithya_caleb

Toronto-based WZMH Architects has been accepted into Microsoft’s global Internet of Things (IoT) Insider Labs, a program designed to assist businesses in transforming the way people, devices, and data interact. The architecture firm has developed a smart building technology.

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Seeing the big picture in building design

June 12, 2018 nithya_caleb

Commercial buildings are among the biggest consumers of energy, with much of it being wasted. There is growing pressure to provide more efficient designs that are also sustainable over the life of the building.

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Saskatoon hospital upgrades funded from utility savings

July 17, 2017 emissio

The Royal University Hospital (RUH) provides acute-care services for Saskatoon . Working with a building technology and energy service company (ESCO), it has invested $13.6 million to provide critical facility upgrades expected to save $1.4 million annually, along with providing a healthier environment both inside the hospital and in the larger community. Find out what was changed.

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Discover geothermal energy systems at GTA conference

February 14, 2017 carly_midgley

What is geothermal energy, and what are its low-carbon advantages? Why is it not more commonly used in Ontario—and how logical is it to try to use it as regularly as natural gas? These questions and more will be answered at the Ontario Geothermal Association’s (OGA’s) annual meeting next Tuesday and Wednesday, February 21 and 22.

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High-rise living, low-energy lifestyle

October 7, 2016 Katie Daniel

Tall-building developments in Toronto are outpacing every other city in North America, with roughly 44 high-rises exceeding the 150-m  (492-ft) mark—more than triple the 13 skyscrapers gracing the city’s skyline in 2005. The dramatic increase in office and living space pointed to epic levels of energy use, capturing the attention of Canadian legislators.

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Introducing energy recovery ventilation

September 8, 2016 Katie Daniel

Current Canadian projects indicate energy recovery ventilators (ERVs) are not a fad, but the wave of the future. One project putting this type of HVAC technology on the ‘sustainability map’ is the Montréal-based Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM). CHUM’s 185,810-m2 (2-million-sf) expansion (pictured above) makes it one of the largest hospitals in North America.

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Ontario investing $300 million to repair Northern schools

August 16, 2016 david_anderson

A total of $300 million will be used to help improve walls, floors, ceilings, HVAC units, electrical and plumbing systems, and playing fields for Northern Ontario schools.

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From CRACs to HVAC: Building management systems help mission-critical facilities keep humming

July 15, 2016 Katie Daniel

An essential problem with data centres and other mission-critical facilities is that heat, humidity, and dust are electronics’ ‘kryptonite.’ In other words, without carefully planned measures, computer servers and high-tech hospital equipment can rapidly fail.

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Reducing construction costs with big fans

July 14, 2016 Katie Daniel

Architects often sell their clients on the promise of large overhead fans based on the argument of long-term energy savings from reduced reliance on HVAC.

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