ASHRAE Series Continued: Excerpts from the 1924 ASHRAE GUIDE

ControlTrends invites you to keep a continuous glimpse in review of how our industry’s engineering scaffolding was put into place and ASHRAE’s unending quest for industry standards and excellence.

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The lineage of the Handbook begins in 1922, when the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers (ASH&VE) published its Heating and Ventilating Guide. Its purpose was stated as follows in its preface:

‘The purpose of this new addition to the Society’s publications is to provide the engineer, the architect and contractor alike, with a useful and reliable reference data book relating to the art of heating and ventilating. [Read more...]

PH Basics

Thanks to our friends at Lesman Instruments for this great training video on PH Loop Basics.

John Wilder Tukey: The Pioneer of Big Data and Visualization

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Sir Isaac Newton

Big Data and Data Visualization are two of the most dominating forces now shaping and steering our lives and our industry, but they’ve both had quite an interesting lineage and some very wide shoulders to stand upon.

Tukey“The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.”
John W. Tukey Exploratory Data Analysis, 1977

John Wilder Tukey, a mathematician who first coined the term “exploratory data analysis,” was right when he suggested that the idea of visualization helps us see what we have not noticed before. That is especially true when you are trying to identify relationships and find meaning in huge amounts of collected data.

Tukey spent his whole career at Princeton. He became director of the newly founded Statistics Research Group when it was set up in 1956. He was the first Head of the Department of Statistics, which was set up at Princeton in 1965, [Read more...]

DG Logik Announces 2013 CTA Awards Platinum Sponsorship

dglux_building_automation_iconControlTrends Awards thanks Eugene Mazo and DG Logik, the global leader in Visual Analytics, for their Platinum Sponsorship for the 2013 CTA Awards Show to be held at the BB King Blues Café in NYC, January 21, 2014.


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Register to Vote For The 2013 ControlTrends Awards


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To see the 2012 ControlTrends Awards click here.

Security Webinar: Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED)

asis_webinar3Building integrators and facility managers should take advantage of this great training and security insight opportunity provided by Panasonic and ASIS International entitled: CPTED for the Modern Security Professional, May 15, 2013, 1:00-2:00 EST.

Applying the principles of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) is very effective in protecting assets as well as drastically improving the quality-of-life experience in work and living environments. Get a quick refresher on the principles, practices, and strategies of CPTED and review how they can be applied to all building types, risk threat vulnerability assessments, and critical infrastructure protection.

Review the 4 D’s of physical security: Deter. Detect, Delay, and Detain. This is your opportunity to review and possibly apply these layers of security to your facility.

asis3Click here for more information on ASIS International online education events.

Haystack Connect Breakout Session: Energy


As most of you know ControlTrends was at Haystack Connect last week. We were blown away by all the amazing speakers and ideas that came from this conference. I filled up all my hard drives trying to capture it all on video, and we will be posting these videos on ControlTrends.
The Energy Breakout session had excellent speakers. This video shows Scot Duncan, from Enerliance. Scot, is a dynamic speaker, and introduced the group to [Read more...]

McKenney’s Inc. Analyzes Building Sensors to Cut Energy Costs with Splunk

Congratulations to Brian Gilmore and his team at McKenneys for their successful implementation of Splunk to gather and analyze data in buildings to make them more energy efficient.
Nice work Brian.

Lunch and Learn: HVAC Controls Valves and Actuators

Join Stromquist & Company’s Tim Chamblee for this very informative class on HVAC Control Valves and Actuators.

Hawaiian Electric Company RFI for Automated Demand Response

ControlTrends Update!

Dear OpenADR Stakeholder,

Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc., a member of the OpenADR Alliance, is issuing a Request for Information (RFI) to solicit product information from manufactures and technology providers for equipment and services. Hawaiian Electric is pursuing a Demand Response operational strategy that will expand the company’s existing Residential Direct Load Control (RDLC) and Small Business Direct Load Control (SBDLC) Programs. Hawaiian Electric is exploring two-way communicating technologies (Virtual End Node (VEN) and Virtual Top Node (VTN))1 for residential and small business sector end-uses such as; air conditioners, electric resistance water heaters, lighting and other plug loads.

If your company is interested in obtaining a copy of the RFI, [Read more...]