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A Building Automation System (BAS) integrates various controls to enhance energy efficiency and reduce operational costs. However, ensuring all equipment works in harmony presents a key challenge: For optimal performance, …

Is your facility ready for e-Manifest? Beginning January 22, 2025, all facility sites that receive manifested waste under either federal or state law (whether from the generation state or the …

The production areas within a food and beverage plant are the most critical spaces in the facility. In addition to the production equipment itself, these areas require the appropriate design …

Design charrettes are interactive sessions where design stakeholders meet to resolve conflicts and ideate solutions. Charretting is a way to address client needs, provide fresh perspectives, coordinate challenging design solutions, …

Laboratory environments are hygienic zones…spaces that must be kept clean, dry, and free from contaminates, including allergens. These spaces should also be free of food and beverages and other sources …

Throughout the food processing industry, propylene glycol is used in process heat transfer coolant systems when direct cooling with primary refrigerants is not acceptable, and the use of water alone …

Wastewater pretreatment is the process of removing pollutants from a facility’s wastewater to bring it from industrial levels of pollution (several thousand mg/L) closer to the more common residential levels …

In today’s world of hybrid work and flex spaces, the dichotomy of creating a space that “wows” and still supports the needs of the employee body has never been a …

Hixson Project Architect Shuting Zhao and Interior Designer Lauren Michaels recently took part in the 2024 Lab Design Conference, held this year in Phoenix, Arizona. While there, Shuting and Lauren …

Does your facility use meat grinders? The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently sent out a reminder to keep your team members’ safe when working with this machinery. OSHA …