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Nov 9, 2023
Understanding the Science of Resonance and Its Effects on HVAC
Occasionally when MSC is challenged to determine the cause of excessive vibration in equipment such as fans, compressors, and pumps, a...
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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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
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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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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