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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.
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...
New Jersey College Continues to Benefit From Pioneering Geothermal System
Stockton College leads the way with innovative Earth-Coupled HVAC design. Dr. Lynn F. Stiles, professor of physics at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey is describing the background behind the installation of one of the world's largest single closed-loop geothermal HVAC systems, totaling 1,741 tons of installed geothermal heating/cooling...
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. The two campuses each have central chiller plants in separate buildings, with two Trane CenTraVac 450-ton centrifugal chillers, Model CVHE, in each mechanical plant. All four of the chillers...
Yorkdale Shopping Centre: Toronto, Ontario - A Popular Retail Destination Gets a Comfort System Remake
A large and popular shopping destination in Toronto is demonstrating the benefits of improving older comfort systems. Yorkdale Shopping Centre today encompasses over 2,000,000 square feet of retail area, and continues to evolve as the retail needs of the community change. The equipment selected was 11 Trane Voyager packaged rooftop...
Birdville High School Campus: North Richland Hills, Texas - Geothermal System Proves to Be a Buried Treasure for Birdville High
Located in the Fort Worth, Texas suburb of North Richland Hills, Birdville High School BHS makes a real presence among the expanding residential and commercial areas developing around it. By marrying the benefits of geothermal (ground-source) heating and cooling with Trane horizontal and vertical ground-source heat pumps and a Tracer...
Johnston County Schools: Johnston County, North Carolina - Air-Cooled Chillers, Ice Storage Provide Lifetime Savings for School System
The Johnston County Schools rely on air conditioning systems. Today, Johnston County is the fastest growing school district in the state, with an enrollment of 23,000, and adding over 1,000 students per year. The growth is attributable to its location within the growing Raleigh metropolitan area, and along the growing...
University of Florida Campus: Gainesville, Florida - Dispersed Chiller Plants With Central Control
By any measure, the University of Florida in Gainesville is large. Because of the campus location in central Florida, building cooling is essential. Nearly all of the cooling in the major academic buildings, laboratories, and health care facilities is by chilled water. The decision to use area chiller plants was...
Stockton College: Pomona, New Jersey - New Jersey College Continues to Benefit From Pioneering Geothermal System
The Richard Stockton College is an award-winning, mid-sized liberal arts and sciences college located in the southeastern New Jersey pinelands area. The school was planning replacement of its aging fleet of multi-zone rooftop HVAC units-most of which dated to the school's original construction in the early 1970s. A geothermal system...
Southside Regional Medical Center: Petersburg, Virginia - Facility Bases Design on Need for Reliability and Efficiency
Southside Regional Medical Center is an acute care general hospital with associated facilities in Petersburg, Virginia, 20 miles south of Richmond. The challenge was one familiar to many hospital facilities administrators. A medical center depended on an aging chiller plant, one that was showing decreases in both reliability and efficiency....
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. With more than 700 beds and a complete range of medical services, Covenant stands ready to meet the growing health care needs of this 14-county area. The project objective was to create a solution that minimizes initial capital costs...
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The truth is out there
A weekly look at the World *The oldest profession seems to be suffering less than most in the economic downturn. Economist Sudhir Venkatesh has been studying the sex industry since the 1990s, and says that high-end prostitutes see an upturn in trade when previously successful businessmen...
The New, Expanded Gallup Daily; New numbers on the election, the economy, well-being, and health every day
Synopsis: The Gallup Daily is expanding beyond the election and consumer confidence to include new daily measures on Americans' standard of living, the U.S. job market, well-being, and health. Since the start of this year, more than 7 million people have visited Gallup.com for the most current data...
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...
No discovery deps allowed: a recent case underscores the importance of taking a party's evidence not discovery - deposition if he or she may die before trial
The Illinois Appellate Court garnered some comment from practitioners in the blogosphere when it explained the difference between discovery and evidence depositions in a recent case, Berry v American Standard, Inc, 888 NE2d 740, 2008 WI 2132141 (5th D). Though all justices on the appellate panel joined in the result,...
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...
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...
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...
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Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services: 541611
