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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...
Montgomery County Government Center-Christiansburg,Virginia: Textile Mill Gets New Life as Government Building
The government of Montgomery County in western Virginia faced several challenges. One was the need for quality office space for many county departments. A second was what to do with a former textile factory that the county had owned since 1990, but had never adequately utilized. According to Philips, a...
Denver-based Firm Needed to Expand
J.D. Edwards & Company develops, markets, and supports enterprise software and supply chain computing solutions that enable customers to translate ideas into practical realities quickly and efficiently, using the company's software. The company recently completed construction of a Denver business campus. The individual campus buildings are equipped with a Trane...
Merritt Square Mall-Merritt Island, Florida: On-site Electric Generation Creates Opportunity for Absorption Cooling
Larry Golden, a senior retail operations manager for Jones Lang LaSalle, property managers is speaking about a time-tested system for onsite electric generation and reuse of engine heat to supply an absorption cooling plant at Merritt Square Mall in Merritt Island, Florida. When the mall was originally conceived, much of...
Armed Forces Recreational Center Uses Federal Government ESPC to Achieve Goals
Shades of Green is a 216,050 square foot resort facility with 287 rooms. The resort is operated by the United States Army for the benefit of active and retired military personnel. Shades of Green is located at the Walt Disney World Resort. The project objective is to reduce operating costs,...
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...
Merritt Square Mall: Merritt Island, Florida - On-site Electric Generation Creates Opportunity for Absorption Cooling
The mall is an 800,000 square-foot retail facility located in Merritt Island on Central Florida's rapidly growing "Space Coast," not far from the Kennedy Space Center. Because of its location in a growing commercial and residential area, and along the primary route between Orlando and Cocoa Beach/Cape Canaveral, it receives...
Montgomery County Government Center: Christiansburg, Virginia - Textile Mill Gets New Life as Government Building
The government of Montgomery County in western Virginia faced several challenges. One was the need for quality office space for many county departments. A second was what to do with a former textile factory that the county had owned since 1990, but had never adequately utilized. Both problems were solved...
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...
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. The need for longer press runs and larger papers recently drove a decision to install a new, larger printing plant at the newspaper's headquarters in Roanoke. This new facility required additional comfort cooling, plus a...
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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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 a lifestyle comparable...
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 to more than...
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...
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