How to Successfully Design for Cost-Effective Air Handling Redundancy

When the operations staff at a facility with critical loads, such as hospitals, research labs or large data centers, gets an alert that air conditioning has stopped in an area, it sets a lot of urgent activity in motion. Technicians rush to the air handling unit (AHU) and begin troubleshooting for the cause. It may be a simple fix or it may involve significant downtime to remedy the situation.