Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems are becoming more sophisticated as manufacturers design features into the product that make them more reliable, quieter, more efficient, and ...

Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. We like to repeat architect Carl Elefante's adage that "the ...

Today’s building owners and occupants are more tech-savvy than ever before, demanding greater connectivity, control, and efficiency from technology — including HVAC systems. A heightened interest in ...

THE importance of a proper system of heating and A ventilation in factories for the comfort and health of the workers need not be emphasised. Considerable difference of opinion as to the correct ...

We don’t use cow dung to warm our homes any more nor do we rely on the half-door for ventilation, newer technologies have replaced them. So, why then are we still using oil or gas boilers for heating ...

Predictive control techniques, particularly model predictive control (MPC), are revolutionising the management of heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems in modern buildings. By ...

A research team at the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics IBP, and at the Fraunhofer Institute for Energy Economics and Energy System Technology IEE, is in the process of developing a renewable ...