Blog entries from Brian Philbeck

The 'Green Initiative' at ES

Brian Philbeck — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:52:01 +0100

In the past few years, Environmental Specialties has undertaken a ‘green initiative’. This initiative has been to look for, and incorporate, energy efficient elements of environmental chamber design relating to mechanical, electrical, and architectural. States such as California already require certain design elements by specification, while other states may soon follow with similar design requirements.

Examples of energy efficient design elements are:

- Hot gas (i.Read More...

Step-in chamber versus Triplewide reach-in chamber

Brian Philbeck — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:38:47 +0100

In recent years, customers have become more and more conscious of the price per square foot of storage space, energy efficiency, and the ease of installation. As engineering firms have become more involved with environmental chamber purchases, these issues have become critical to the review of options.

When a situation arises where the chamber is small, i.e. a ‘step-in’ chamber less than 8’ x 8’ in footprint, ES recommends consideration of a large reach-in chamber in lieu oRead More...

Growing Markets - Cold Cleanrooms and Ultra Low Freezers

Brian Philbeck — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:29:57 +0100

Environmental Specialties has supplied hundreds of ‘standard’ cold rooms, warm rooms, and freezers over the past 30 years. While this still represents a large part of the business, a growing part of the business in recent years has included cold cleanrooms and ultra low freezers. As a Product Engineer, I find these types of rooms most interesting, and a good fit for a company such as ours with depth in engineering and project management resources.

The cold cleanrooms (40 FRead More...