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Case Study: Rehabilitation of a Mothballed Laboratory Facility

MSC

Oct 24, 2023

Case Study: Rehabilitation of a Mothballed Laboratory Facility

PROJECT BACKGROUND: MSC recently undertook a significant project to revive a mothballed laboratory facility that had stood vacant and...

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Physics at Play: Solving the Mystery of Recurring VFD and Motor Failures

MSC

Sep 29, 2023

Physics at Play: Solving the Mystery of Recurring VFD and Motor Failures

As commercial/industrial HVAC service specialists, we at MSC often deal with complex challenges requiring extensive testing and...

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MSC Revives Facility HVAC System Suffering from Poor Maintenance

MSC

Sep 12, 2023

MSC Revives Facility HVAC System Suffering from Poor Maintenance

Several months ago, a Northern New Jersey manufacturing facility reached out to MSC to address several serious recurring issues with...

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High-Heat Emergency Call at Process Plant

MSC

Aug 30, 2023

High-Heat Emergency Call at Process Plant

During a recent heatwave, MSC received an urgent emergency call from a facility manager at a plant where we provide scheduled HVAC...

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Forgoing PM Doesn't Save Money. It Creates Far-Higher Expenses and Postpones Them for Later

MSC

Aug 13, 2023

Forgoing PM Doesn't Save Money. It Creates Far-Higher Expenses and Postpones Them for Later

Businesses nowadays are more aware than ever of the importance of a good HVAC preventive maintenance program to optimize efficiency,...

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How to Prepare for a Chiller Failure Emergency

Pete McGrath

Jul 26, 2023

How to Prepare for a Chiller Failure Emergency

If your facility depends heavily on chilled water, what happens when the chiller fails? What would such an emergency cost your business?...

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How Building Owners Can Optimize Their HVAC This Summer

Justin Becker

Jul 12, 2023

How Building Owners Can Optimize Their HVAC This Summer

Originally appeared in Facility Executive Magazine Heat waves are putting mission-critical facilities at risk this summer, and facility...

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Retirement Announcement: Congratulations Mike Hartigan

MSC

Jul 11, 2023

Retirement Announcement: Congratulations Mike Hartigan

MSC would like to extend our best wishes and heartfelt thanks to Mike Hartigan, who retired last month after nearly 40 years of dedicated...

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MSC

Jun 28, 2023

MSC Vibration Analysis in Action

MSC recently performed vibration analysis and thermal imaging on six critical blowers at a northern New Jersey manufacturing facility. In...

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Wildfire Smoke and How It Affects Your HVAC Filters: PM2.5 Explained

Andrew Heilmann, PE

Jun 9, 2023

Wildfire Smoke and How It Affects Your HVAC Filters: PM2.5 Explained

PM2.5 is a term used to describe atmospheric particles that measure 2.5 microns or less. While there are obvious health concerns linked...

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Hospital Service Call Becomes Retro-Commissioning Project

MSC

Jun 6, 2023

Hospital Service Call Becomes Retro-Commissioning Project

MSC service technicians were dispatched to a large New Jersey healthcare facility to address multiple complaints in an area that had...

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Outsourcing Facilities: Environmental Monitoring and Controls Critical in Drug Compounding

MSC

May 18, 2023

Outsourcing Facilities: Environmental Monitoring and Controls Critical in Drug Compounding

Drug compounding is the process of combining, mixing, or altering pharmaceutical ingredients to create a medication tailored to an...

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MSC Project Throwback: Vapor Recovery Unit Renovation

Pete McGrath

May 1, 2023

MSC Project Throwback: Vapor Recovery Unit Renovation

The year was 1981, and MSC had been contracted to gut and refurbish several Edwards Engineering explosion-proof gasoline vapor recovery...

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Ionocaloric Cooling: Will This New Breakthrough Replace Harmful Refrigerants?

MSC

Apr 17, 2023

Ionocaloric Cooling: Will This New Breakthrough Replace Harmful Refrigerants?

Scientists at the Dept. of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a promising new refrigeration process that uses...

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MSC Service Call: Finding an Elusive Propylene Glycol Leak with Dye

MSC

Mar 31, 2023

MSC Service Call: Finding an Elusive Propylene Glycol Leak with Dye

During a monthly HVAC preventive maintenance visit to a large manufacturing facility, an MSC service technician noticed that the level of...

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Pete McGrath

Mar 15, 2023

Hiring Good People

Mechanical Service Corporation founder and company president Harry Hartigan has always said, “If you hire good people that want to work...

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MSC Design/Builds Complex Projects for Special Environments

MSC

Feb 27, 2023

MSC Design/Builds Complex Projects for Special Environments

Among the various HVAC, process cooling, and building automation services provided by MSC, design/build is one that many clients might be...

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Understanding MERV and ASHRAE's Recommended Filter Value

MSC

Feb 13, 2023

Understanding MERV and ASHRAE's Recommended Filter Value

The Minimum Efficiency Reporting Value, commonly known as MERV, is a standard developed by ASHRAE that measures the overall effectiveness...

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Pete McGrath

Jan 30, 2023

MSC Always Answers the Call

Since the day in 1978 when Hartigan Refrigeration officially became Mechanical Service Corporation, MSC has made itself available to...

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Addressing Lingering HVAC Problems with "Design/Repair" Projects

MSC

Jan 16, 2023

Addressing Lingering HVAC Problems with "Design/Repair" Projects

An MSC service technician arrived at our client’s manufacturing facility early one morning to perform HVAC preventive maintenance and was...

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