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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...
Hines Buildings-Phoenix, Arizona: Hines Buildings Earn US EPA/DOE Energy Star Label for Buildings
Hines is a privately owned real estate firm, founded in 1957 and headquartered in Houston, Texas. The building was designed to meet ASHRAE Standard 90.1, which sets performance standards for energy use, indoor air quality, and outside air ventilation. An important part of controlling the building's energy usage is the...
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...
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. According to John Crane, operations manager at Yorkdale Shopping Centre, the updates in the comfort systems serving the huge facility were done to enhance comfort levels, reduce operating costs, and simplify facility management....
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...
PACT Case Study Shelby County Schools-Shelby County, Alabama: Growing School District Uses PACT for Needed Facility Improvements
Shelby County Schools is one of the fastest growing school districts in Alabama. The district consists of 28 schools and one administration building, encompassing 2.1 million square feet. The project objective is to create a self-funding project which simplifies the procurement process, addresses deteriorating facilities and provides a single point...
Lewisville Independent School District: Lewisville, Texas - Texas School District Finds IAQ and Efficiency Solution in a Dual Compressor Rooftop
Lewisville ISD is located about 25 miles north of Dallas in Denton County, and serves a largely suburban area in the northern part of the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex. A major concern for the district has been planning and building facilities to keep up with the growing enrollment. A second concern...
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...
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Purge/Pressurize Control Systems meets worldwide standards
Certified to IECEx and ATEX while featuring FM and cULus approvals, MiniPurge systems suit oilfield, pharmaceutical, and similar industries where there can be potential explosive mixture of gas and dust. They feature certification to IEC 60079-2 (Zone 1, 2 - Gas) as well as IEC 61241-4 (Zone 21, 22 -...
WABCO Directors Approve Cash Dividend
BRUSSELS, Belgium, May 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- WABCO Holdings Inc. , announced today that its board of directors has approved a cash dividend of 7 cents per share of common stock. The dividend is payable on June 20, 2008, to shareholders of record on June 3, 2008. ...
Wooowork career alliance calls for contributors
RESTON, VA -- The Architectural Woodwork Institute has volunteered and been selected as the secretariat for an industry-wide alliance devoted to developing and setting skill standards for woodworkers Volunteers are writing the unified North American Standard of Tool Skills & Evaluations from all parts of the advanced wood...
Imported lumber
American Lumber Co. 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 to more than a dozen imports from South America and Africa,...
Ziff Davis Enterprise Announces 2008 CIO Summit
CNN POLITICAL ANALYST PAUL BEGALA TOPS SPEAKER PROGRAM FEATURING CIOS FROM DISCOVER FINANCIAL, LIONSGATE, NISSAN, AMERICAN STANDARD, AND TOP CHINESE BANK AND PHONE COMPANY NEW YORK, April 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Ziff Davis Enterprise announced today it will hold its fourth annual CIO Summit May 6 to 9,...
THE GAP-YEAR GAMBLE
The Ecuador tragedy has raised concerns about this rite of passage. Simon Calder looks at the issues, while students share their memories To the ends of the earth National Service for the soul: that is the basic idea of the gap year. And...
American Standard, Porcher and JADO Integrate Fashion With Innovation at Kitchen/Bath Show
Consumers Can Elect Both - Style and Performance - in the Bath CHICAGO, April 11 /PRNewswire/ -- KITCHEN/BATH INDUSTRY SHOW -- American consumers can elect both style and performance in 2008 with the new high-style, highly-efficient plumbing products launching today at the 2008 Kitchen and Bath Industry...
Trane, Inc. Signs Full Building Lease Renewal with Prime Group Realty Trust at 7100 Madison Street in Willowbrook, Illinois
CHICAGO -- Prime Group Realty Trust (NYSE: PGEPRB), a Chicago-based real estate investment trust ("PGRT" and the "Company"), announced that Trane, Inc. renewed its full building, 50,157-square-foot lease at 7100 Madison Street in Willowbrook, Ill. Profiled by its two brand names Trane[R] and American Standard[R], Trane (www.trane.com) is...
J.W. Winco Inc. now offers metric size steel and stainless-steel folding handles
J.W. Winco Inc. now offers metric size steel and stainless-steel folding handles. For steel versions, the handle assembly is made of steel with a chrome-plated finish, and the washers and hex nuts are zincplated blue passivated steel. The stainless-steel versions have handles of American Standard 303 series stainless steel, with...
Volunteers sought to work on woodworking skill standards.(CLIPPINGS)(Architectural Woodwork Institute )(Brief article)
The Architectural Woodwork Institute AWI continues to look for volunteers to work on the development of a North American Standard of Tool Skills & Evaluations. AWI is coordinating the industrywide effort to prepare the set of defined, observable, and measurable skills related to all areas of...
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Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services: 541611
