What do turf wars, battle lines, and tug of war have in common? They are all being mentioned by people involved in the creation of two rival commercial HVAC load calculation standards, one from the ...

What is a load calculation? A load calc determines just how much heating and cooling is needed for a specific house or building. It takes the guesswork out of sizing HVAC equipment. Its methods have ...

This is part 1 in an ongoing series on HVAC load calculations. The folks at SNIPS have asked me to do a basic how-to article about HVAC Manual J load calculation as that is allegedly a big part of my ...