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Kingston General Hospital-Kingston, Ontario: Ontario Hospital Follows Step-by-Step Approach to Update Chiller Plant
At Kingston General Hospital in Kingston, Ontario, director of plant engineering and maintenance Joel Carr-Braint knew that far too many energy dollars were being used to operate an aging chiller plant. Most of the chillers dated to the 1968-1975 time period, with typical operating efficiencies around 1.0 kW/ton. Yet plant...
Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital-Roanoke, Virginia: Systematic Chiller Plant Improvement for Operating Savings
The Carilion Health System includes ten hospitals with over 900 physicians serving western Virginia. The hospital has systematically upgraded its chiller plant and chilled water delivery system, its building control system, and has even participated in Trane field tests of new chiller technology. In 2001, the hospital launched a major...
Regions Hospital-St. Paul, Minnesota: Duplex Chillers Solve Plant Capacity Challenge for Hospital
Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota recently installed two large chillers to overcome a pressing plant capacity problem. According to hospital chief engineer Mike Barnaal, the new plant met several needs, including improving plant efficiency, serving a new wing on the hospital, and replacing two older chillers, which were no...
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...
From Cotton Field to Hospital in 15 Months
The Willis-Knighton Health System serves the Shreveport-Bossier City area of Louisiana with a family of hospitals and clinics. In 1997, the corporation identified a growing need for additional general hospital space in the Pierremont area in Shreveport and began an aggressive design and construction program. The medical group retained Purtle...
Ontario Hospital Follows Step-By-Step Approach to Update Chiller Plant
Kingston General Hospital is the major tertiary care referral facility complementing community hospitals and other health care providers serving Southeastern Ontario. Three of the four chillers serving the hospital were over 30 years old, and used R-11 refrigerant. The machines selected were two Trane CenTraVac centrifugal chillers, Model CVHF, rated...
Duplex Chillers Solve Plant Capacity Challenge for Hospital
Regions Hospital is a leading Trauma Level I hospital, the descendant of Anchor Hospital created in St. Paul in 1872. At the main campus in 1999, the growing problem of an aging chiller plant was brought to acute status by plans to add a 140,000 square foot wing to the...
Willis-Knighton Health System: Shreveport, Louisiana - From Cotton Field to Hospital in 15 Months
The Willis-Knighton Health System serves the Shreveport-Bossier City area of Louisiana with a family of hospitals and clinics. As a not-for-profit health corporation with a history extending nearly a century, it strives to anticipate the medical needs of its region. The corporation identified a growing need for additional general hospital...
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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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...
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Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services: 541611
