HVAC / FIRE ENGINEERING PDH COURSES

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The objective of this course is to assist the HVAC engineer in learning about proper design to prevent indoor air quality problems in a building and resolve such problems promptly if they do arise. It recommends practical actions that can be carried out by facility staff, outside contractors, or both.

The objective of this course is to help the HVAC engineer learn about the staged approach to building upgrades, with retrocommissioning as the first stage in the building upgrade process. The upgrade HVAC process goes through the redesign and optimization of the Air Distribution systems. 

 This course highlights the objectives of good duct design which are: occupant comfort, proper air distribution, economical heating and cooling system operation, and economical duct installation. Properly designed systems can maintain uniform temperatures throughout the house efficiently.

This course reviews basic design and installation requirements, equipment, application rules of thumb, key specification differentiators, and typical applications for split systems.  A split system is an air-conditioning or heat pump system that uses refrigerant as the heat exchange fluid and has an evaporator, compressor, and condenser as separate components   

This course is designed to provide fan system users with a reference outlining opportunities to improve system performance. It is not intended to be a comprehensive technical text on improving fan systems, but rather a document that makes users aware of potential performance improvements.

The objective of this course was to validate the performance of a new HVAC dehumidification technology designed to significantly reduce energy use associated with dehumidification, while improving indoor air quality and reducing potential for mold growth. 

This report details the findings of these efforts and summarizes the results for each of the three focus buildings. In general, the more recently constructed Terralab exhibits a sounder building envelope without any major thermal deficiencies when compared to both the Biolab and GWR buildings.  

This course provides requirements and guidance in the design of heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems, together with the criteria for selecting HVAC materials and equipment. 

This course examines a demonstration whose primary objectives were to verify pump electricity savings and cost effectiveness, evaluate ease of installation and operability and ensure the DHW system was able to maintain desired return water temperature & discharge air temperature set points.

This course examines a laboratory evaluation of the five integrated HPWHs available in the U.S. market today. The results describe how these products function, demonstrate that efficient operation is typical but limitations exist, and provide information so reasonable expectations can be determined.

This course attempts to provide publicly available field data about new HPWHs by monitoring the performance of three models. The move to HPWHs from standard ERWHs is not trivial; energy used by electric water heaters is a substantial fraction of total residential energy consumption, 

The scope of this course is to provide a standard field monitoring protocol for evaluating the installed performance of HPWHs in residential buildings. The report is organized to be consistent with the chronology of field test planning and execution.