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  Challenge The two 750-ton Trane centrifugal chillers, in the twenty-year-old Willis-Knighton Medical Center chilled water plant, were taxed with providing comfort for the entire facility. The medical center sought upgrades to add capacity, control comfort, increase redundancy and reduce energy costs, without a prolonged, disruptive construction outage. With the existing plant located in the…

Organizational health is a moving target. Leaders at today’s healthiest organizations don’t run them the same way that the C-suite did in 2003, when McKinsey launched the Organizational Health Index (OHI). We created the index to help organizations gain vital insights into whether they have the right practices in place to drive sustained performance. In…

Over the last few years, public libraries have transitioned from being buildings that only store and lend books to being fully featured community centers. While today’s public libraries are still committed to sharing knowledge and providing easy access to books and other publications, they have transformed into spaces that offer 3D printing tools, Wi-Fi hotspot…

Topics Column Our expert columnists offer opinion and analysis on important issues facing modern businesses and managers.   More in this series Subscribe Share As hybrid work programs continue to grow in popularity and full-time office work declines, many leaders and companies are still struggling with a tough question: What are the right patterns for…

Partial Discharge (PD) is an electrical effect that, in the past, was only a concern for high-voltage system engineers and technicians. In systems of more than 6,000 V, rapid electrical discharges, such as tiny lightning storms, can occur across surfaces, between surfaces, within insulation systems, and even between cables or cables to ground. When these…