Continuing Education Courses

If you are indoors, your comfort, and the air you breathe is very likely the result of an HVAC system. Do you know if the HVAC system contains materials that are hazardous to your health or harmful to the environment? This course is intended to educate specifiers on the adaptation of Materials Transparency certification to HVAC systems and provides guidance for designing buildings with HVAC systems that are friendly to the outdoor environment while providing a healthy indoor environment for occupants.

Chilled beams technology continues to advance. Today’s chilled beam technology offers building owners and occupants additional energy savings and comfort through the addition of demand control. This course explores the many benefits of chilled beams with integrated demand control ventilation. Fresh air for breathing, for the health, safety and welfare of the occupants.

The Passive House concept involves strategies for ventilation to save energy while proving occupant comfort. Attend this course to learn how a Passive House and its occupants benefit from a well-applied ventilation system. 

The Passive House concept includes goals for energy savings and for comfort. Although scientifically well-understood, the application of industry comfort standards is often considered a secondary requirement in Passive House buildings. This course explores comfort concepts and comfort control strategies that provide both occupant comfort and energy savings in Passive House Buildings.

Prerequisite Knowledge: Background knowledge of Passive House concepts is suggested, but not required.

HSW Justification: Occupant comfort deals with topics of temperature and humidity control to promote better sleep, increased concentration, higher productivity and ability to resist infection from airborne sources.

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Duration: 1.5 Hours

This course is intended to educate design engineers on a range of design considerations for Dedicated Outdoor Air Systems (DOAS) and their impact on the HVAC system performance. It is based on an ASHRAE Journal Article published in March 2016.

Duration: 1 Hour

This course is intended to educate design engineers and building owners on the advantages of chilled beams as an HVAC system. It includes how a chilled beam system works and the 10 reasons to use a chilled beam system. The course introduces Swegon climate beams including features and benefits. It is a good course for an audience that has not been exposed to chilled beams as a system.

Passive House projects have very specific ventilation requirements, offering both challenges and opportunities. This course intends to train specifiers on the benefits and limitations of Energy Recovery Ventilators (ERV) used on Passive House certified projects. Course includes case studies.

Course is designed to advance knowledge of air handling system application, with emphasis on occupant wellness associated with the concepts of Dedicated Outside Air Systems (DOAS) and demand control ventilation (DCV), life-cycle cost savings, occupant comfort, sound control and system integration. Course includes case studies.

Hotel owners seek to operate profitably while providing a pleasant guest experience. The hotel ventilation system is the main source for guest comfort and represents a substantial impact on life-cycle costs. This course explores hotel ventilation systems that provide maximum guest comfort, low investment and minimum footprint.