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Pasadena Corporate Center Chooses Direct-Fired Absorption
Advanced absorption chillers have replaced 30-year-old machines at a Pasadena office complex, improving efficiency and reliability at all load levels. In the process, the chiller replacement also extends the life of an existing centrifugal chiller plant in an adjacent building. In reviewing the 251 South Lake building during the acquisition...
Major Chiller Replacement Project Completed Over Three Day Weekend
Detailed planning and a tight project team were the keys to a major chiller plant replacement in a 320,000 square foot commercial office building over a holiday weekend. Crocker's investigation of the building prior to acquisition revealed shortcomings in the HVAC system. The major system components were two 400-ton centrifugal...
Attention to Detail Pays Off Refrigerant Management Key in Effective Asset Management
The corporate audit process is a mirror of the Hines corporate philosophy. The property manager or chief engineer alone can't speak for the building, but instead must list three operating engineers who have the expertise to speak on a given topic. Hines requires its property managers and chief engineers to...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
High Growth Reported for the World HVAC Equipment Market
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the Industrial equipment industry is available in its catalogue. World HVAC Equipment Market http://www.reportlinker.com/p090370/World-HVAC-Equipment-Market.html HVAC equipment demand worldwide to increase 5% annually through 2010 World demand for HVAC equipment is projected to rise over...
Ultra-Wideband : Technology, Applications, and Solutions
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/ab149b/ultrawideband_uw has announced the addition of the "Ultra-wideband UWB: Technology, Applications, and Solutions" report to their offering. Ultra-wideband UWB technology offers a promising solution to the RF spectrum drought by allowing new services to coexist with current radio systems...
Case Approves Use of B20 Biodiesel Blends for Construction Equipment
Case Construction Equipment announced it hasapproved the use of B20 blends (20 percent biodiesel and 80 percentpetroleum diesel) for more than 85 percent of its construction equipment.In June 2006, Case became the first construction equipment manufacturer toapprove the use of B5 blends. "Case is proudly leading the construction...
Ingersoll-Rand finishes Trane acquisition deal
Ingersoll-Rand Co. completed its acquisition Thursday of Trane Inc. after Trane shareholders approved the sale at a special morning meeting at headquarters in Piscataway, NJ. Ingersoll-Rand, based in Bermuda, said holders of Trane's approximately 200 million common shares will receive a combination of $36.50 in cash and 0.23...
Imported lumber
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] American Lumber Co. Booth #1601 The American Lumber Co. announces it is now delivering imported hardwood Lumber to customers throughout North America. American Lumber says stringent guidelines already applied to American standard and proprietary grades are now being applied...
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