HVAC Fundamentals
12,000 Btuh
What is a Ton (of cooling capacity)?
This type of water-distribution system has comfort concerns related to it; primarily associated with not being able to simultaneously heat and cool the building as a whole.
What is a 2-pipe system?
Original Trane company founder (when it was just a heating and plumbing business) and father of Reuben Trane.
Who was James Trane?
Defined as any threat to a project’s objectives (to be safe and profitable).
What is Risk?
Money set aside for specified risk items on a job.
What is Contingency?
She is the Trane M&V Leader.
Who is Erin Daley?
In a Performance Contract, we guarantee _______ savings, not dollars.
What is Energy (Unit)?
Energy modeling software used to model buildings to calculate energy savings associated with solutions we implement in Performance Contract jobs.
What is Trace 3D Plus?
This person can juggle.
Who is Stephen Todaro?
This person can clap with one hand.
Who is Ryan Dorste?
The direction one would move on a psychometric chart to see a rise in Humidity Ratio.
What is Up?
These are 3 main examples of condenser components for water-cooled HVAC systems.
What is a Cooling Tower, Fluid Cooler, and a Geothermal Loop (will also accept Pump and Dump)?
Sport that Reuben Trane excelled at.
What is rowing?
This document outlines the required PPE and other measures to keep everyone safe on a specific job.
What is a Site Safety Plan?
This value represents all Cost + Profit. It’s something we distinguish internally when discussing total project value.
What is Sell?
M&V Option referred to as Retrofit Isolation with All Parameters Measurements.
What is Option B?
The component in a solar PV system that converts electricity from direct current to alternating current.
What is the Inverter?
Site that maintains Trane’s database of qualified sub-contractors.
What is Appruv?
This person is a hunter and has a sick bike.
Who is Scott Manvell?
This person worked as a club bouncer in college.
Who is Mason Ding?
The concentration of thermal energy typically used to measure intensity of heat.
What is Temperature?
This “passive” heating and cooling system can be very efficient but, if not controlled properly (and diligently), can “make it rain from the ceiling”.
What is a Chilled Beam system?
Name of Reuben Trane’s heat transfer device, a replacement for the traditional home radiator, that sparked the company’s trajectory.
What is the Convector Radiator?
In the hierarchy of controlling safety concerns, this is the option that gives us the most control of the situation (foundation of pyramid).
What is Elimination?
The formula to calculate Sell value given: Costs and Margin % (M%)
What is
"Costs"/(1-M%)?
M&V Option referred to as Retrofit Isolation with Key Parameter(s) Measurements.
What is Option A?
A best practice strategy to show the Customer what the proposed solution looks like before broader implementation. Often used for Lighting and Water Conservation ECMs.
What is a Mock-Up?
Acronym that refers to the US Trane/Mitsubishi joint venture.
What is METUS?
This person considers going out to the bars with friends their favorite hobby.
Who is Madeline Fey?
This person likes to backpack using advice from Chat GTP.
Who is George Zavala?
Refrigerant leaves this component in the Refrigeration Cycle when it is in a high pressure, high temperature liquid state.
What is the Condenser?
Ventilation strategy using CO2 sensors to optimize cfm.
What is Demand Control Ventilation (DCV)?
The name of the first Trane centrifugal chiller (1938).
What is the Turbovac Chiller?
Installing guard rails on a roof is a method of _______ Fall Protection.
What is Passive?
Trane’s standard payment terms.
What is Net 75?
Common M&V Option not recognized by IPMVP.
What is Mutually Agreed?
Common measurement unit of light intensity or illuminance. Defined as lumen/sqft.
What is a footcandle?
The three valve type included in a Combination Valve (Triple Duty Valve).
What are Isolation (Butterfly), Check, and Throttle (Control) Valves?
This person worked for a solar company.
Who is Nick Chrisco?
This CPM GTP participant is older than Adam Plumley.
Who is Kody Regelbrugge?
This ASHRAE Standard specifies the amount of outside air flow needed to ventilate for a space based on number of occupants and square footage.
What is ASHRAE Standard 62.1?
Organization that goes by the acronym ASHRAE.
What is the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers?
Name of the planes flown in WW2 deployed with Trane-designed intercoolers that escorted allied bombers over Europe?
What were (P-47) Thunderbolts?
Trane’s rating is 0.75; under 1 of this rating is considered acceptable. A score of 1 would mean we pay 100% of our insurance premiums as a company. Being under 1 means we are saving money by being safe.
What is EMR Rating (Experience Modification Rate)?
Term that refers to missed forecasting because of schedule delays and other unplanned events.
What is Slippage?
This is what IPMVP stands for.
What is International Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol?
This is the Team (within Trane Contracting business) that develops and engineers the Comprehensive Solution project before handing off to the Project Manager for implementation. Consists of Project Developers and Energy Engineers.
What is the Preconstruction Team?
The Five Ps for Presentation Skills (Sara Haar).
What are Passion, Planning, Preparation, Practice, and Performance?
This person has 7 siblings.
Who is Alex Casey?
This person once worked in the circus.
Who is Kenn Macur?