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High School Selects Custom Air Handlers
Halliburton Company upgraded the entire comfort system at its campus at 2601 Beltline Road in Carrollton, Texas. The million square foot facility on the northwest edge of the Dallas metropolitan area includes a variety of large buildings that house administrative, manufacturing, heat-treating, data processing and warehouse functions. The improvements include...
Goal of University HVAC System: High Comfort, Low Profile
Located in the heart of California's Silicon Valley, Santa Clara University provides an oasis of calm beauty and traditional academic achievement. The school has also achieved a reputation for its beautiful and functional campus. The university places high priority on the function of the campus as a safe and comfortable...
PACT Rockwood Schools-Eureka, Missouri: Trane Provides Quieter Classrooms and More Efficient Facility Management at Rockwood Schools
Rockwood School District is the largest school district in St. Louis County with 17 elementary schools, five middle schools, four high schools and four miscellaneous buildings. The project objective is to create a solution that maximizes available energy conservation funds and dramatically reduces maintenance expenses. Develop and manage a construction...
Red Wing High School: Getting Better, Not Older - Red Wing, Minnesota
When Red Wing High School opened, it was equipped with the latest-technology HVAC equipment and systems to achieve high efficiency and excellent indoor air quality. For nearly 10 years, the school has provided an outstanding learning environment for approximately 1,200 high school students each year. And the school isn't getting...
Fort Smith Public Schools: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Modernizing Older School Buildings With PACT
The Fort Smith School System has a stable enrollment and schools that date from 1908 to the 1980s. Many of the older schools have boiler heating systems and window air conditioners. The goal of this project was to bring contemporary standards of comfort and efficiency to school buildings. The new...
PACT Rockwood Schools: Eureka, Missouri - Trane Provides Quieter Classrooms and More Efficient Facility Management At Rockwood Schools
Rockwood School District is the largest school district in St. Louis County with 17 elementary schools, five middle schools, four high schools and four miscellaneous buildings. The main objective was to create a solution that maximizes available energy conservation funds and dramatically reduces maintenance expenses. Develop and manage a construction...
Ottawa Hills High School: Toledo, Ohio - High School Selects Custom Air Handlers
Systems that were adequate in schools built 20 or even 10 years ago are no longer sufficient for new construction. This was the situation facing Ottawa Hills High School in a northeast suburb of Toledo, Ohio. The school district was faced with Heating and ventilation were the initial goals in...
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Use of Bible by jury not prejudicial, court rules
HOUSTON AP -- East Texas jurors wrongly used a Bible during deliberations in a capital murder case, but there isn't enough evidence to show they were prejudiced when they decided to send the perpetrator to death row, a federal appeals court said. The ruling from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court...
American Standard Bathroom Habits Survey Shows We're Multitasking, Even in the Bath
Busy Consumers Aren't Just Taking Care of Business; They're Checking E-Mail, Using Cell Phones and Listening to iPods While Still Striving to Conserve Water PISCATAWAY, N.J., Aug. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- There was a time when a stack of magazines located near the commode was enough to occupy...
America's face evolves, blurs, ages
The number of minorities in the USA is growing so briskly that non-Hispanic whites will lose their majority status in 2042, years before demographers had previously projected, according to Census data released today. The population is surging on almost all fronts, the new figures show. There will be...
CSA International signs agreement with VDE to provide testing services for European market
CLEVELAND, OH, July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- CSA International, a leading certification and testing organization, today announced that it has signed a reciprocal product testing agreement to provide testing services in North America and Asia, on behalf of VDE, for products destined for European markets. A similar reciprocal agreement allows...
WABCO Wins Top Supplier Award for Commercial Excellence From Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles in Brazil
BRUSSELS and SAO PAULO, Brazil, July 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- WABCO Holdings Inc. today announced that WABCO has been honored with a supplier award for "Commercial Excellence 2007" by Volkswagen VW Commercial Vehicles in Brazil where VW's global headquarters for its truck and bus division are...
Boomer Retirement Trends
Long Term Projected Rise in Healthcare, Gas Prices and Cost of Living Have Boomers Looking Abroad for Retirement LOS ANGELES -- An ever-increasing rise in the cost of living has Boomers concerned about life after work. In search of affordable healthcare, reasonable gas prices, and...
InBev to File Consent Solicitation Statement to Provide Anheuser-Busch Shareholders a Direct Voice in Proposed Combination at $65 per Share
BRUSSELS, Belgium, July 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- InBev (Euronext: INB) announced that it will file later today a preliminary consent solicitation statement with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission seeking to remove each member of the board of directors of Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc. and provide...
Herb Alpert and Lani Hall Sign With Ted Kurland Associates Booking Agency for Worldwide Representation After Sold-out Tour
LOS ANGELES, July 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Legendary trumpet player Herb Alpert and his wife, internationally renowned GRAMMY-winning singer Lani Hall, have signed with the Boston, MA-based booking agency Ted Kurland Associates TKA for worldwide representation. TKA will exclusively represent Alpert and Hall both for their performances...
AeroGrow Announces New Board Members
AeroGrow International, Inc. (NASDAQ: AERO)("AeroGrow" or the "Company"), makers of the AeroGarden® line of indoorgardening products, announced that it has appointed four new members to itsBoard of Directors, Linda Graebner, Peter Michel, Suresh Kumar and MichaelDingman, Jr., bringing significant additional depth and breadth ofexperience to its Board. Linda...
Scissor lifts
Lauderdale-Hamilton Inc. The new extra-Long scissor lift, from Lauderdale-Hamilton Inc., measures 30 in. by 50 ft and has a 12,000-lb capacity. The Lift is specially designed to ensure uniform Lifting, and is simply built with American standard components, the company says. Additionally, custom engineering is available. ...
Case Construction Equipment
Case Construction Equipment announced the approval of B20 biodiesel blend for use in more than 85% of its construction equipment. The biodiesel approved for use must comply with the North American Standard ASTM D6751, said the company. "Biodiesel should be purchased from a trusted supplier who understands the product and...
WABCO Earns Top Quality Award from KAMAZ, Russia's Largest Manufacturer of Commercial Vehicles
BRUSSELS and MOSCOW, June 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- WABCO Holdings Inc. today announced that WABCO (http://www.wabco-auto.com/) was named "Best Supplier 2007" by KAMAZ, the largest manufacturer of commercial vehicles in the Russian Federation. The only non-Russian supplier to be awarded, WABCO provided consistently outstanding levels of...
Blood money
IoS Investigation: Mugabe's investors The MPs cashing in on Zimbabwe's misery Cameron faces hypocrisy charge Tory frontbenchers are among those with shares in companies accused of propping up the violent - and now illegal...
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