2024 Nov-Dec RETA Breeze

A NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION FOR MECHANICAL INSULATION

Follow these steps: Step 1: When designing a mechanical insulation system for new applications or replacement requirements don’t assume you know all the answers. Consult with mechanical system engineers, insulation manufacturers and insulation contractors. Explore old and new technologies, under stand where failures could occur, check product – systems reference and document your findings and conclusions. Devoting time and focus on the front-end yields rewards later. Step 2: Select a mechanical insulation contractor who is experienced with below ambient applications. Review every suggested alternative, regardless of the cost or schedule advantages, or disadvantages,

Committing to that simple resolution will provide dividends by optimizing insulation system performance, reducing long term maintenance cost and mitigating the risk of corrosion under insulation. By anyone’s method of measurement, which provides an unrivaled return and is a New Year’s resolution that can be achieved by simply respecting the value of mechanical insulation systems.

By Ron King, Past President/Consultant, National Insulation Association Do you want to make a New Year’s resolu tion that provides a return on investment? Of course, you do, everyone does. Repeat after me, I resolve to look at mechanical insulation systems differently by ensuring they are designed and installed correctly, not to accept so called value engineered alternatives and to maintain them in a timely and proper manner.

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