by Haglid Engineering | Nov 18, 2019 | Direct counterflow heat exchanger, Energy Recovery Ventilators, Heat Recovery Ventilation Systems, High performance buildings, High-Efficiency Building, How to Reduce Energy, Indoor Air Quality, ROI, Ventilation Systems
The energy-efficient best bet for a heated studio. What’s the fuss over Hot Yoga? Also known as Bikram Yoga, the practice is held in heated studios to increase yoga’s effects on muscles and various systems of the body. Unfortunately, the heat and humidity desired by...
by Haglid Engineering | Apr 29, 2019 | Energy Recovery Ventilators, Engineer's Toolbox, Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation Systems
This Building Performance Equipment (BPE, LLC) Energy Recovery Ventilator (ERV) installation, along with three other BPE ERV systems, vents a Pentachloride environment superfund cleanup site that was discovered beneath a 96,400-sq.ft. industrial building. After...
by Haglid Engineering | Jan 9, 2019 | Energy Recovery Ventilation Systems, Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation Systems
The importance of a fresh air intake vent. Does your building or home have a fresh air intake vent? Would you know if it did? The tell-tale openings can be found on the building envelope, hopefully at least 10-feet away from contaminant sources. If you place a hand by...
by Haglid Engineering | Oct 23, 2017 | Cooling Energy Recovery, Ventilation Systems
Building Performance Equipment, Inc. welcomes the newest addition to its family of Energy Recovery Ventilators (ERVs)–and it’s a rather special little guy. Like its bigger brothers, the BPE-XE-MIR-200-i is an ultra-energy-efficient unit that sports a...
by Haglid Engineering | Aug 28, 2017 | Sustainability, Ventilation Systems
When it comes to comfortable, healthy Indoor Air Quality, reliable HVAC solutions must compensate for increasingly tight building envelopes. The trend toward tighter envelopes is, no doubt, an important one. They are a must for keeping out moisture, condensation, and...
by Haglid Engineering | May 29, 2017 | Cooling Energy Recovery, Ventilation Systems
It’s easy to ignore things we cannot see. Gravity, oxygen, atoms fall into this category … all good things our bodies make use of daily. If these concepts ceased to exist, so would we. Yet we don’t think about that often, nor is it necessary for the...