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Whether you have a small office building, or an expansive logistics facility to cool down in the summertime, don’t make your HVAC system work harder than it should. Performing air conditioner preventive maintenance can help keep your equipment running at maximum efficiency.

Believe it or not, summer months are right around the corner and it will be cooling season once again. Before the cooling gets started, a cleaning and inspection is very important to increase and sustain your cooling equipment’s efficiency.

Do you want to humidify your building without the use of boilers, electric heating elements or canisters that need cleaning and replacement? Then adiabatic humidification might be for you. The word Adiabatic came from the Greek word adiábat, and now means without heat. Instead of...

Variable Refrigerant Flow (VRF) or Variable Refrigerant Volume (VRV) is a type of HVAC system that uses refrigerant as a means to transport heat between the outdoor condensing units to various indoor units throughout the building to condition the space.

Written by an Engineer at Ahern Thermal energy storage is a beneficial system that allows you to reduce your total electricity demand charges. In general, this is simply done by operating your cooling equipment during off-peak hours (weekends and nights) and storing the energy to be...

Free cooling in your facility sounds too good to be true, right? Well, economizing may not be free, but it is certainly less expensive than mechanical cooling. During what are referred to as the “shoulder months” for cooling, when energy demands are the lowest – March, April, May, Sep

Written by an Energy Solutions Specialist at Ahern While we would like them to be, how building systems are designed is not always how they are installed and operated. For a new building, the process of confirming that a system is installed and operated according to design and project...

Written by an Energy Solutions Specialist at Ahern Code requirements for buildings typically mandate exhaust systems for certain applications to control indoor air quality (IAQ), odors, and pressurization. Exhausting air can translate to blowing conditioned air directly out of the...

Written by an Ahern Energy Solutions Engineer When it comes to taking care of a facility, it is easy to overlook the importance of filter care, maintenance , and replacement. Filters are an important part of air-side HVAC because they maintain indoor air quality and reduce fouling of...

Written by an Ahern Energy Solutions Engineer Are you worried about having to replace mechanical equipment, but think it may still have some life left? In some instances, large capital expenses associated with equipment replacement can be avoided through tuning,