The Air-Conditioning System Design Manual, second edition, is the second book in the Professional Series and is published jointly by the association and Butterworth-Heinemann/Elsevier. It bridges the ...

Young designers created a special brick that capable of cooling bus stops, school playgrounds, and squares without the need ...

Issacharov found inspiration in the Palestinian “‘jarrah”’, a traditional drinking water container made of terra-cotta that is hung in a room to cool both the water and the living space itself. The ...

The first air conditioning systems were created by electrical engineer Willis Carrier in 1902 to solve a problem for a printing press in Brooklyn, New York, where humidity threatened to ruin the paper ...

Figuring out where to squeeze central air conditioning in a century-old brownstone or townhouse can be perplexing even for the most seasoned renovators, especially when the original walls are ...

In the summer, both air conditioning demand and solar energy generation are at their peak — so what happens when you pair the two? As Gavin Harper, a research fellow at the University of Birmingham ...

Modine Manufacturing Company (NASDAQ) will display and demonstrate the operation of a vehicular air-conditioning system that uses environmentally friendly carbon dioxide (CO2) as a refrigerant. The ...

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