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Herman Miller Marketplace-Zeeland, Michigan: Rooftop Comfort System Contributes to LEED Gold Rating
Herman Miller, Inc. is a leading global provider of office furniture and services for the workplace. Products include office furniture, storage equipment, office architecture components, and systems for information management. The firm also has a longstanding commitment to green building design, being one of the original sponsors of the U.S....
High School Selects Custom Air Handlers
Halliburton Company upgraded the entire comfort system at its campus at 2601 Beltline Road in Carrollton, Texas. The million square foot facility on the northwest edge of the Dallas metropolitan area includes a variety of large buildings that house administrative, manufacturing, heat-treating, data processing and warehouse functions. The improvements include...
Hybrid Plant and Storage System Give DuPage County Ultimate Flexibility
DuPage County Governmental Complex includes 12 buildings totaling .5 million square feet. The chillers that serve the facility are located in the power plant building that dates back to 1970. The county recently completed an upgrade of the chiller plant and chilled water distribution system. The project involved replacing three...
Thermal Storage Retrofit Reduces Costs for Federal Building
This 27-story structure is located in downtown Pittsburgh and was constructed in 1963. A wide range of federal government agencies occupies the building. The original 30-year old chiller plant consisted of two 990-ton centrifugal chillers equipped with open drives and reduction gears. By modern standards, the chillers were of comparatively...
Case Study the Culver Studios-Culver City, California: Trane Modular Climate Changer Air Handlers Supply Quiet Comfort
If you listen very carefully at Soundstage 11, The Culver Studios, Culver City, California, you can almost hear the echoes of Clark Gable, Vivian Leigh and Olivia DeHavilland filming Gone With The Wind in 1939. That's an exaggeration, certainly; but this historic soundstage is not only still in use, it's...
Johnston County Schools-Johnston County, North Carolina: Air-Cooled Chillers, Ice Storage Provide Lifetime Savings for School System
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 primary advantage of ice storage for the school system is to solve the cooling problem. Today, all of the school buildings are air conditioned, a process...
Ice Storage Passes the Test at ETS Campus
ETS is an internationally recognized organization that creates, administers and evaluates a wide range of educational placement and achievement tests including the SAT, the Graduate Record Examination GRE and the Test of English as a Foreign Language TOEFL. ETS moved to this site in 1956 and has an experienced facilities...
Halliburton Company: Carrollton, Texas - Dallas Complex Adopts Central Plant Thermal Storage, Low Temp Operation
Halliburton Company upgraded the entire comfort system at its campus at 2601 Beltline Road in Carrollton, Texas. The one million square foot facility on the northwest edge of the Dallas metropolitan area includes a variety of large buildings that house administrative, manufacturing, heat-treating, data processing and warehouse functions. The improvements...
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...
PACT Shikellamy Schools: Sunbury, Pennsylvania - Trane PACT Program Funds Over $735,000 in Building Improvements for Pennsylvania School District
The Shikellamy School District consists of nine buildings with a student enrollment of over 3,000. The district is located in the heart of Pennsylvania. The project objective was to provide more efficient and reliable comfort systems to improve the learning environment in the classrooms. A Trane Tracer Summit building automation...
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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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