This month’s B2B focuses on a new cooling tower to serve a pharmaceutical facility’s new process water system. This tower will be a closed-loop, evaporative condenser to operate 24/7/365. The pharma ...

Evaporative cooling towers play an important role in green buildings by significantly reducing energy consumption when they supplement or replace traditional air conditioning systems, thereby reducing ...

A novel technology that is surprisingly simple in principle promises to significantly reduce water consumption in evaporative cooling tower systems by capturing water from cooling tower plumes.

Passive cooling refers to technologies or design features that lower the temperature in spaces without the need for power consumption. The strategy uses free, renewable sources of energy (wind and sun ...

Editor’s note: This is the first of a multi-part series by Brad Buecker, President of Buecker & Associates, LLC. Power and co-generation facilities have multiple cooling systems for various plant ...

Applying one or more of these design practices and technologies can save building owners thousands and even millions of gallons of water annually. Take the LEED Platinum One Bryant Park tower in New ...