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CONTENTS 18 52

Vol. 53, No. 11|November 2011

Features

Standing Columns

18 32

Commissioning High-Tech Facilities
By Evan Mills, Ph.D.

Technologies 58 EmergingHeat Recovery Drain Water

Streamlining Energy Simulation To Identify Building Retroﬁts
By Aleka Pappas, P .E.; and Sue Reilly, P .E.

By Alissa Cooperman; John Dieckmann; And James Brodrick, Ph.D.

65 Washington Report Grassroots Advocacy

2011 ASHRAE TECHNOLOGY AWARDS

By Mark Ames and Mark Wills

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Laundry Upgrade
By Yan Ferron, Eng.

73 IAQ Applications Advanced Air Distribution
By Arsen K. Melikov, Ph.D.

Creating a Healing Environment: Efﬁcient Hospital
By Gerry Noorts, P .E.; and Michael W. Murphy

Departments
4 6 8 16 64 66 78 80 Commentary Industry News Letters Meetings and Shows Products InfoCenter Classiﬁed Advertising Advertisers Index

INSIDE

BACnet® Today & The Smart Grid
The 2011 edition includes articles discussing new developments in operator workstations, changes in BACnet event detection and reporting, evolving utility and customer relationships, the architecture of the facility-to-grid interface, and the proposed ASHRAE Facility Smart Grid Information Model (FSGIM).

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