Welcome to the Quarterly Newsletter from enVerid Systems
Milestone Crossed: 1,000 Units!
This month, we hit an exciting milestone: 1,000 enVerid HVAC Load Reduction??(HLR?) air cleaning modules with Sorbent Ventilation Technology?(SVT?)?have been included in building HVAC system designs.?Building decarbonization, electrification and sustainable indoor air quality are key drivers propelling new design wins.
We are thrilled to cross this significant milestone of 1000 design wins. The increased appreciation of the importance of healthy indoor air quality, coalescing with mandates to decarbonize by shifting to electrification and concerns about climate resilience, have spurred adoption of?SVT?solutions.?
In addition, enVerid and six other indoor air quality and energy efficiency leaders recently published a?white paper ?that lays out a holistic approach to achieving Sustainable IAQ through a four-step process. The paper, which was reviewed by 15 industry experts, lays out a roadmap for achieving high IAQ, low energy, climate resilient buildings and?has spurred broad interest in using sorbent air cleaning and complementary technologies to achieve these goals. Collaborators included?75F, Awair, GIGA/RESET, Oxygen8, PLANLED, and SafeTraces.
Combined with the new clarity provided by recent?updates ?to ASHRAE Standard 62.1-2022’s IAQ Procedure (IAQP), there is a marked shift to ventilation system designs that include air cleaning to reduce system cost and improve energy efficiency. With the considerable tail wind of these market dynamics, we anticipate that SVT combined with the updated IAQP will rapidly become basis of design. For more information on this assertion,?watch?our "Ask the Experts" interview ?with MEP founder of Engenium Group, Brandon Harwick, in which he predicts the demise of the Ventilation Rate Procedure in favor of the IAQP.
Next month, we're looking forward to seeing you at the?ASHRAE Annual Conference in Tampa .
Thanks for your interest in enVerid.?We look forward to keeping you posted on more exciting developments.
Christian Weeks
CEO, enVerid Systems
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Recent Webinars
Earth Day Panel – Sustainability in Facilities
In honor of Earth Day, Viking Pure Solutions hosted a round table event with thought leaders in facility management sustainability, including enVerid CEO Christian Weeks. The panel discussed current green initiatives and solutions, the challenges of implementation, and presented technology and resources that building managers can employ to improve sustainability and reduce the environmental impact of their systems and operations.
Speakers included:
NAESCO Webinar – Achieving Sustainable IAQ with Christian Weeks
Simultaneously improving indoor air quality (IAQ), decarbonizing buildings, and increasing resilience to outdoor pollutants has been extremely challenging because alternatives to conditioning large volumes of outside air to improve IAQ are not well understood. This presentation aims to change that by introducing a four-step Clean First framework for sustainable IAQ. This framework achieves better indoor air quality and energy efficiency with improved resilience to outside air pollutants. The presentation also provides recommendations for implementing a Clean First framework.
Presenter
Christian Weeks, CEO, enVerid Systems
Learning Objectives
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Greenbuild Webinar: Net Zero Ventilation?
Greenbuild presented a webinar?titled?Net Zero Ventilation: Achieving Net Zero Goals While Maintaining Healthy Spaces.
Insightful perspectives discussing how performance-based indoor air quality design and energy recovery ventilation can be used together as the basis for net zero ventilation. Design approaches were shared.
Key Areas Covered:
Speakers include?enVerid Technical Product Manager Joe Maser and Engenium Group president and founder Brandon Harwick, PE, LEED AP.
From our Blog
ASHRAE Further Improves the IAQP with Addendum n
Published 03/21/2023?
By Tom Nagy
The Indoor Air Quality Procedure (IAQP) within?ASHRAE Standard 62.1, Ventilation and Acceptable Indoor Air Quality ?requires the use of a mass balance calculation to determine the volume of outside air required, in conjunction with source control and removal measures, to provide indoor air quality (IAQ) that is “acceptable to human occupants and minimizes adverse health effects.”[1]
There are many benefits to using the IAQP rather than the alternative Ventilation Rate Procedure (VRP) to meet IAQ requirements using a hybrid ventilation and air cleaning approach. These benefits include smaller and less expensive HVAC systems, lower energy use and carbon emissions from less conditioning of outside air, lower operating expenses from less energy use and lower peak demand, and increased resilience to polluted outside air.
Despite these many benefits, a challenge with the IAQP has been lax efficiency testing requirements for air cleaning technologies used with the IAQP. Any mass balance calculation that includes filtration or air cleaning requires a particle filtration efficiency and gaseous removal efficiency, but Standard 62.1 did not define acceptable testing standards to measure particle filtration and gaseous removal efficiency resulting in a wide range of testing approaches, some of which have undermined the rigor and credibility of the IAQP.
ASHRAE has now addressed this weakness with?Addendum n ?to Standard 62.1-2022, which builds on other important updates to Standard 62.1 included in Addendum aa ?published in 2022.
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Together, Addendum n and Addendum aa make the IAQP the new “gold standard” for designing highly efficient and cost-effective hybrid ventilation and air cleaning systems to support building decarbonization and electrification goals and lower HVAC costs...
Ask the Experts: Video Blog with Brandon Harwick of Engenium Group
Published 02/27/2023?
By Christian Weeks
In our first installment of enVerid’s Ask the Experts blog series to be recorded on video, I chat with Brandon Harwick, founder and president of Engenium Group, a leading MEP firm based in Washington, DC. Brandon has been recognized as an engineering leader (he was named one of ASHRAE’s Top 5 New Faces to Watch in Engineering) and his firm is at the forefront of thoughtfully developing innovative HVAC solutions combining energy savings and cost reductions with excellent indoor air quality.
I heard Brandon?speak about the IAQ Procedure (IAQP) at the 2023 ASHRAE Winter Conference ?and wanted to follow up with him. He and I talked about top industry trends, including the one Brandon’s most excited about: the rising popularity of the IAQ Procedure (IAQP), which Brandon predicted will overtake the Ventilation Rate Procedure (VRP) as the norm in the next 10 years.He also described using Sorbent Ventilation Technology?(SVT) with the IAQP for energy savings and improved indoor air quality in three projects: the NY Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, DC, where reducing outside air reduced the HVAC first cost; the Dorothy Heights Elementary School, where using the IAQP and SVT was instrumental in saving energy; and the Engenium offices where they are using SVT to improve indoor air quality.
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In the Media
Engineered Systems: Decarbonization Takes Center Stage at the 2023 AHR Expo
Engineered Systems’ “list of the most innovative, forward-thinking products showcased on the AHR Expo’s trade show floor” includes a write-up of the new Daikin Vision and Skyline air handlers with enVerid Sorbent Ventilation Technology?. The article says:
Daikin Applied’s Vision and Skyline air handlers are now enhanced with Sorbent Ventilation Technology (SVT) from enVerid Systems, creating a total-air-quality system that combines the benefits of sorbent media with a semi-custom air handler. This news comes a year after Daikin Applied announced the upgraded Rebel Applied? packaged rooftop system with SVT.
Vision and Skyline with SVT will continue to address common IAQ issues in buildings. For example, the integrated SVT system from Daikin improves IAQ by removing CO2; volatile organic compounds (VOCs), such as formaldehyde; and other contaminants using sorbent filtration that captures pollutants while allowing oxygen and water to pass through freely, resulting in cleaner air. The integrated system can reduce outside ventilation by as much as 80%, providing greater control of humidity and comfort while trimming annual operating expenses by up to 30%.
enVerid Systems Expands Partnership with SCG to Make Highly Efficient Commercial Air Conditioning Available Across Southeast Asia?
enVerid’s international expansion continues in commercial buildings across ASEAN region, making Sorbent Ventilation Technology available to save energy and cost while providing cleaner indoor air
Westwood, MA?–?enVerid Systems , the leader in sustainable indoor air quality (IAQ) solutions, today announced an expansion of its partnership with?SCG , a leading business conglomerate in the ASEAN region. The expanded relationship includes the addition of important new Southeast Asian markets to SCG’s sales territory and a technology licensing and manufacturing agreement.
SCG Smart Building Solutions, a system integrator and solution provider of energy-saving technologies that also enhance the well-being of building occupants, has been distributing enVerid’s award winning HVAC Load Reduction??(HLR?) air cleaning modules in Thailand, Singapore and Vietnam since 2020. Under the new agreement, SCG’s territory has been expanded to include the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia. SCG will also manufacture enVerid HLR modules in Thailand under a technology licensing agreement with enVerid.
“The ASEAN region is increasingly focused on achieving highly efficient commercial air conditioning and improving indoor environments, as indicated by rapidly growing sales of enVerid’s HLR modules in the region,” said Christian Weeks, CEO of enVerid Systems. “SCG has been a phenomenal partner for enVerid over the past three years, deploying our technology in buildings owned by leading companies in the region. The future is about high IAQ, low energy, climate resilient buildings, and we are thrilled to make this future a reality in the ASEAN region through our partnership with SCG.”
enVerid’s Sorbent Ventilation Technology??(SVT?), the core technology in HLR modules and other SVT-enabled HVAC systems, removes gaseous contaminants including carbon dioxide, formaldehyde, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from indoor air so that indoor air quality targets can be achieved with less reliance on energy-intensive outside air ventilation. Conditioning large volumes of outside air used to dilute indoor generated contaminants, especially in hot and humid ASEAN markets, represents a large portion of HVAC energy consumption. With SVT, HVAC energy use can be reduced by up to 40%.
“We have seen a surge of interest in enVerid’s HLR modules as a key element of highly efficient commercial air conditioning solutions that also improve indoor air quality,” said Mr. Wachirachai Koonamwatana, head of SCG’s Service Solution Business. “SVT is ideal in the ASEAN region because of the strong commitment to sustainability, heavy air conditioning load, rapid economic growth, and degraded air quality in our large cities. Demand has been growing rapidly and we expect it to continue to accelerate.”
SCG is one of Thailand’s largest companies and a leader in intelligent building management technology. The company’s SCG Smart Building Solution subsidiary creates systems and functions as a system integrator and solution provider for commercial buildings. SCG Smart Building Solution provides building-specific solutions and optimizes buildings with state-of-the-art technology by focusing on energy-saving technologies and enhancing the well-being of indoor occupants.
For more information about SCG Smart Building Solution’s engineering system solutions for integrated buildings, visit?https://www.scgbuildingmaterials.com/th/b2b/smart-building-solution/productinfo-energywell .
Newest PDH Course
How to Achieve Sustainable Indoor Air Quality
Our newest free online PDH course is available on demand,?How to Achieve Sustainable Indoor Air Quality: A Roadmap to Simultaneously Meet Indoor Air Quality, Building Decarbonization, and Resiliency Goals. Based?on our recent white paper ?of the same name, the course offers 1.75 hours of PDH/CE credits from organizations including ASHRAE, BOMI, ICC, RCEP, USGBC (GBCI), and more, qualifying for HSW credits, as well.
Learn more ?and?share the course here .
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June 24-28, 2023:?A SHRAE Annual Conference
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