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Born to Run
Design of an energy-efficient mechanical system depends, in particular, on the effective orientation of the building in relation to the sun; the design of the building envelope and roof for maximum efficiency; and space planning that segregates building uses, and allows for varying cooling and ventilation requirements.
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The Age of Aquariums
Many challenges were faced by the team at Syska when designing the HVAC system's for Atlanta's Georgia Aquarium, the world's largest aquarium.
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When Critical Meets Green
The federal government has called upon the EPA to initiate a study of the power consumption of facilities by passing HR-5646 during the 109th Congress. The study will fall under the auspices of the EPA’s “Energy Star” program.
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Demand for Green Increasing
More and more office buildings are going green, with the installation of solar panels, fluorescent light bulbs and waterless urinals that are energy efficient and reduce pollution.
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GSA Design Excellence Awards Honor 18 Projects
Exemplary work in public design took center stage today as the U.S. General Services Administration honored 18 projects for excellence during its Design Awards ceremony at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center.
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Data center cooling strategies: Overheating server prevention
The threat of overheating servers and/or critical equipment represents a potential crisis that regularly keeps engineers, IT professionals and owners up at night. Despite widespread awareness of this problem, finding a long-term solution for the delivery of healthy and dependable data centers remains elusive.
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Studies Relate IAQ and Productivity
A growing number of buildings are being designed to use less energy, provide better indoor air quality and focus on the building’s performance as it relates to the occupant’s experience. But facility executives whose goal is a high-performance building that meets these criteria often face obstacles.
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Improving Hospitals’ Preventive Maintenance Programs
Hospitals and health care systems have been slow to adopt automated preventive maintenance programs. Due to intense pressure to cut costs, hospital officials sometimes decide to shortchange the maintenance staff, where a lack of resources often manifests itself through an apparent lack of progress and improvement in the organization.
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Syska Offers New Facility Classification System
The arrival of high-density computing has changed many of the requirements for mission-critical facilities For more than a decade, the language of data center reliability has been measured in tiers, using a four-level system. Syska has introduced a new classification system which expands upon the capabilities of the tier system.
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Modeling in 3D
Syska High Density Cooling Solutions involve unique server layouts and configurations using the same cooling elements that every data center already has. As a result, a company may not have to add new cooling capacity to the data center, and instead, just reconfigure it.
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Security Considerations for Today's Facilities
Security planning has evolved into a business necessity, an essential requirement of any commercial real estate development. Corporate tenants are not only concerned with the standard security issues – safety for their offices and people -- they must now worry about creating highly secure environments for their IT operations, data centers and critical facilities.
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Dollars and Sense
Selling owners on a long-term view of facility operations is tough, but solid life-cycle cost estimates can lead to more intelligent decisions about investing in intelligent buildings.
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Making the Upgrade
On most college and university campuses, the fire-alarm setup typically comprises either a number of standalone building fire-alarm systems of various vintages, or an outmoded, inefficient hardwired monitoring system.
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Up and Running
By exploring new concepts of teamwork – instead of separate fiefdoms – facilities management, security, human resources, and IT departments can collaborate to maintain and ensure business uptime.
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