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American Standard Companies Inc. - Corporate Governance Principles
The New York Stock Exchange listing rules define "Independent Director" as a director who has no material relationship with the Corporation that may interfere with the exercise of the director's independent judgment. To assist the Board in making determinations of director independence for all purposes, including under the securities laws...
Minnesota School Combines Indoor Air Quality With Energy Efficiency
Students and teachers in Red Wing, Minnesota are enjoying a new high school that uses the latest in efficient, quiet HVAC technology to provide optimal indoor air quality. While the increase in outdoor air supply could not come too soon for those who are sensitive to poor indoor air quality,...
Kingston General Hospital-Kingston, Ontario: Ontario Hospital Follows Step-by-Step Approach to Update Chiller Plant
At Kingston General Hospital in Kingston, Ontario, director of plant engineering and maintenance Joel Carr-Braint knew that far too many energy dollars were being used to operate an aging chiller plant. Most of the chillers dated to the 1968-1975 time period, with typical operating efficiencies around 1.0 kW/ton. Yet plant...
Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital-Roanoke, Virginia: Systematic Chiller Plant Improvement for Operating Savings
The Carilion Health System includes ten hospitals with over 900 physicians serving western Virginia. The hospital has systematically upgraded its chiller plant and chilled water delivery system, its building control system, and has even participated in Trane field tests of new chiller technology. In 2001, the hospital launched a major...
Citrus Valley Medical Center-Los Angeles, California: Variable-Frequency Chiller Drives Enhance Hospital Efficiency
Citrus Valley Medical Center is a not for-profit health care facility serving the San Gabriel Valley, in the north central Los Angeles region.
Regions Hospital-St. Paul, Minnesota: Duplex Chillers Solve Plant Capacity Challenge for Hospital
Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota recently installed two large chillers to overcome a pressing plant capacity problem. According to hospital chief engineer Mike Barnaal, the new plant met several needs, including improving plant efficiency, serving a new wing on the hospital, and replacing two older chillers, which were no...
University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita, Kansas: Catastrophic Chiller Loss Creates Opportunity for Improvement
Established in 1971, the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita is housed in a 150,000-square-foot learning complex in north-central Wichita. Each of the two buildings has a central cooling system, with chilled water being supplied to the building's air handlers. ChillerSource delivered a 200-ton, Trane Series R Model RTAA air...
Covenant HealthCare: A Comprehensive Solution: Saginaw, Michigan: Growing Hospital Continues Focus on Outstanding Healthcare by Outsourcing
Covenant HealthCare is the largest healthcare provider in the Saginaw region. Hospital campus consisting of two hospital buildings, an emergency center, and a medical office building. The project objective was to create a solution that minimizes initial capital costs and maximizes operational efficiency while enabling Covenant to dedicate more of...
Phoenix Area Hospital Meets Challenging Construction Schedule Using Custom Air Handlers
Plans were developed in 1999 for a 160,000 square-foot expansion of Phoenix Area Hospital, ranging from one to four stories and encompassing six surgical suites, labor and delivery rooms, an intensive care area, patient rooms, an endoscopy lab, and a children's center. The expansion to the existing 500,000 square-foot facility...
New Medical Center Reflects Changing Patient Needs
The Carilion New River Valley Medical Center near Radford, Virginia, embodies trends toward regionalization, extended outpatient care and advanced diagnostic tools. The new facility, a unit of the Carilion Health System headquartered in Roanoke, has increased capabilities for patient care. Plans for the new facility began with a functional space...
Virginia Medical Center Chooses Screw Chillers for New Central Plant
Southside Regional Medical Center in Petersburg, Virginia, was depending on an aging chiller plant, one that was showing decreases in both reliability and efficiency. The HVAC system consisted of two chillers supplying air handlers throughout the medical center building. As the chilled water and ice making performance of the Trane...
From Cotton Field to Hospital in 15 Months
The Willis-Knighton Health System serves the Shreveport-Bossier City area of Louisiana with a family of hospitals and clinics. In 1997, the corporation identified a growing need for additional general hospital space in the Pierremont area in Shreveport and began an aggressive design and construction program. The medical group retained Purtle...
Johns Hopkins Adds Duplex Chillers to 25,000-ton Central Plant
The installation of duplex chillers has helped increase cooling capacity and maximizes the efficiency of the existing plant at the Johns Hopkins Medical Campus on the east side of downtown Baltimore. The campus has a year-round requirement for chilled water. The heating and cooling requirements for the campus were provided...
Medical Center Chooses Chiller Compressor Retrofit
Duke University Medical Center is an internationally renowned medical teaching, research and treatment center. Recently, HVAC foreman Louis Maness was considering options for a CFC-11 chiller in the medical center's Sands Building. This machine was an older 1,000-ton single-stage dual-compressor centrifugal machine operating with a rooftop cooling tower. They can...
Roanoke Times-Roanoke, Virginia: New Print Facility Requires Advanced Cooling Systems
The Roanoke Times originated in 1886 and today is the dominant newspaper in southwestern Virginia, with a daily circulation of 100,000 in its 19-county area. This new facility required additional comfort cooling, plus a chilled-water plant dedicated to process water cooling for the new press. In the new facility, a...
American Honda Northwest Regional Facility-Gresham, Oregon: Multi-Use Facility in Gresham Wins Unprecedented LEED Gold Award
The building has won widespread recognition for its advanced environmental design. Most notable has been its Gold rating under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program of the U.S. Green Building Council. The LEED Green Building Rating System is a feature-oriented rating system where credits are earned for...
Graco Links Multiple Sites With Single Building Automation System
Graco, a world leader in the manufacturing of fluid-handling systems and components, attributes its success to commitments in technical excellence, world-class manufacturing and superior customer service. Improved management of HVAC equipment schedules, increased workforce productivity through enhanced environmental conditions, enhanced equipment diagnostic capabilities, improved energy cost control and monitoring capabilities,...
Motorola Says Farewell to CFCs
Now that ozone-depleting CFC's are no longer manufactured in the United States, industry faces the challenge of adopting new cooling technology based on environmentally responsible alternative refrigerants. The changeover may be difficult for some. But, if semiconductor giant Motorola is typical, electronics manufacturers are well prepared to make the transition....
A Case for Chiller Conversion - Moving Out of CFCs
Facility executives know that sooner or later they must address the issue of aging chillers and their no-longer-produced CFC (chlorofluorocarbon) refrigerants. Nevertheless, sooner or later CFC replacement will become a priority. Addressing the containment and elimination of CFC-11 at Steelcase actually began in 1993. The company has converted about 4000...
Windy Point Building Places Emphasis on Individual Tenant Comfort
The seven-story Windy Point Office Building encompasses 186,000 square feet of rented office space in Schaumburg, 10 minutes northwest of O'Hare Field. Tenants like having the ability to customize the comfort system to meet varying usage schedules and the close control of comfort levels in individual workspaces. A WSHP system...
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Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services: 541611
