Radiant heating and cooling systems can be considered in many commercial heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) applications to aid in decarbonization, comfort, indoor environmental quality (IEQ), indoor air quality (IAQ), acoustics and many other aspects of heating and cooling systems. In this conversation with GF’s Zach Londo, learn more about applications, capital expenses and various considerations of radiant systems.

Data centers have several design constraints and challenges, including airflow and liquid cooling. How can engineers address this HVAC topic? Listen for insights on selecting a system for a data center’s design, heat recovery, energy efficiency and future trends.

In this episode, meet Dan Gentry, Applications Engineer, and Sarah Hilden, Applications Engineer, at Trane Commercial North America.

• (00:00:03) - Data Center Cooling
• (00:01:13) - Air Cooling vs Liquid Cooling
• (00:02:51) - Heat Recovery in Data Centers
• (00:06:33) - How To Adapt Cooling Plant Design to Data Centers
• (00:09:16) - Data Center Energy: Cost-effective design
• (00:11:39) - Water Cooled vs Air Cooled Systems
• (00:13:25) - How to Build a Data Center That's Energy-efficient
• (00:15:11) - How are Data Centers Adapting Cooling System Designs to Higher Thermal
• (00:18:14) - How To Improve Data Center Cooling Without compromising redundancy
• (00:20:28) - What Does Your Family Do For Fun in the Summer?
• (00:23:13) - How to Specify a Data Center

When working through an HVAC project, understanding risk management cannot be underestimated. Learn more about how to equip your engineering team from Cindy Cogil, PE, FASHRAE, Vice President | Mechanical Engineer, Mechanical Practice Leader – Midwest/East, SmithGroup,

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Mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection systems must all be considered when doing an assisted living facility conversion. In this conversation with Brian Evan, PE, and Sitha Chhum, PE, from Wold Architects & Engineers, understand the trends, engineering requirements and technical factors to address.

Cyber-informed engineering, operational technology (OT) security and information technology (IT) cybersecurity should be part of every mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) design. Listen to Adam Brody, EIT, Electrical IB from Cannon Design, St Louis, discuss how this affects electrical engineering.

• (00:00:03) - Cyber Informed Engineering
• (00:00:58) - How is Cyber Informed Engineering and OT Security different from traditional IT
• (00:06:05) - Has Connected Infrastructure Increased the Risk of Cybersecurity?
• (00:14:54) - MEP Cyber-Intelligence Engineering
• (00:17:21) - How to Balance Parenting and Working
• (00:18:39) - Cyber-Intelligence in Engineering

Drives can have an appreciable impact on energy performance, along with making mission critical facilities more reliable. Listen to Erik Lange, Product Manager – HVAC, Yaskawa, Franklin, Wisconsin, to learn more.

• (00:00:00) - CSE Podcast: No Pressure
• (00:00:33) - What are Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs) and Do
• (00:02:55) - Best Practices for Drive Reliability in Mission Critical Facilities
• (00:04:38) - What role should the drive manufacturer play during commissioning?
• (00:07:12) - Setting up a V-Frequency Drive
• (00:10:08) - The World's Farthest Place From Land

Guest: Melisa Rodriguez, PE, NICET Level IV, Johnson Controls Inc., Eagan, Minnesota

Cold storage fire protection is a challenging feat for any fire protection engineer. Melisa Rodriguez from Johnson Controls Inc. breaks down the details of this fire suppression topic.

• (00:00:00) - Cold Storage Fire Protection
• (00:00:26) - Fire Protection Engineer Melissa Rodriguez
• (00:01:29) - Fire protection in cold storage
• (00:02:57) - Fire protection strategies for cold storage
• (00:05:18) - How To Build Cold Storage Fire Protection Systems
• (00:07:59) - Fire protection system for cold storage
• (00:10:37) - Butter Floods the Streets of Wisconsin
• (00:12:39) - Fire Protection and Suppression Systems Podcast

Guest: Jeffrey Staub, Danfoss Climate Solutions

When designing data centers, understanding whether and how to incorporate heat recovery
requires several considerations. Jeff Staub at Danfoss Climate Solutions explains how mechanical
engineers might successfully integrate heat recovery.

• (00:00:00) - Data Centers Podcast
• (00:00:40) - Request for heat recovery in data centers
• (00:03:38) - How to recover data center heat?
• (00:05:45) - Heat Recovery System Integration into a Data Center
• (00:14:33) - Has liquid-cooled data centers become more popular?
• (00:18:38) - Heat Recovery Systems
• (00:25:11) - Jeff Lawson on Heat Recovery in Data Centers
• (00:27:58) - Heat Recovery