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Toledo-Lucas County Main Library: Toledo, Ohio - High-Efficiency Chiller, Custom Air Handlers Promote Comfort in Library Addition
Today's public libraries still offer a vast range of books and other print documents, but today the emphasis is on accessible knowledge. This is certainly true at the Main Library of the Toledo-Lucas County Library System on Michigan Street in Toledo, Ohio. A recent major addition to the Main Library...
American Honda Northwest Regional Facility-Gresham, Oregon: Multi-Use Facility in Gresham Wins Unprecedented LEED Gold Award
The building has won widespread recognition for its advanced environmental design. Most notable has been its Gold rating under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design LEED program of the U.S. Green Building Council. The LEED Green Building Rating System is a feature-oriented rating system where credits are earned for...
Four Times Square-New York, New York: Absorption Chillers Part of "Green" Building Approach
The building is 52 stories high, of which 47 are rentable space, an amount equal to 1.6 million square feet. Excitement built with the announced intent to build a high-performance "green" building, with much attention to environmental compatibility and building operating efficiency. One of the major steps in reducing electric...
Rooftop Systems Provide Flexibility and Low First Cost With Tilt-up Construction
Ingram Micro Inc. is a leading distributor of information technology products and services worldwide. Stan Szafirowski is an Ingram Micro air conditioning specialist responsible for operating and maintaining the HVAC facilities in the three buildings. According to Szafirowski, all three buildings rely on packaged rooftop comfort equipment. The rooftop units...
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...
Re-optimized Chiller Plant at Hewlett-Packard Features 2 GPM Design
The Hewlett-Packard Company is an international leader in computer technology. The company has a reputation for premium quality equipment with forward-looking features. The company also recently took some forward-looking steps in upgrading three air conditioning systems at one of its facilities in Mountain View, California. At the time of original...
New Eddie Bauer Facility Emphasizes Environmental Quality, Comfort: Redmond, Washington
The company has grown rapidly over the past eight years and yet, through its growth, Eddie Bauer has not altered its personality. It is still as we imagine it. This mail order giant was founded some 75 years ago in Seattle, Washington. Their new home is uniquely Eddie Bauer. Imagine...
Houston Industries Plaza Renovation Includes Unusual Remote Ice-Storage Plant
A comprehensive building renovation project in downtown Houston offers an intriguing view of the potential of thermal storage for building comfort control, along with many other energy and structural innovations. Trane Houston sales office was closely involved in the project, from being chosen to provide the chillers and auxiliary chiller...
Trane Chiller Technology and DuPont Team Up to Help Sea World
To meet the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation's Environmental Technology Leadership Challenge of putting innovative environmental technologies to work in the "greening" of the tourism industry, Orlando's Sea World of Florida looked to two highly respected American companies for help Trane of La Crosse, Wisconsin, and the DuPont Company, a...
Los Angeles Pierce College-Los Angeles, California: Pierce College Faces Comfort Challenge
Pierce College is proud of its reputation as a leader in transferring students to UCLA, U.C. Irvine, USC, Pepperdine University and California State University-Northridge. In recent years, the college is also recognized for its aggressive outreach programs toward non-traditional students and those with special needs. Hot conditions in educational and...
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...
Catastrophic Chiller Loss Creates Opportunity for Improvement
Established in 1971, the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita is housed in a 150,000-square-foot learning complex in north-central Wichita. While not as vital as it would be to a surgery center, air conditioning is still necessary to the school's operation. They chose Trane Series R Model RTHC helical-rotary chiller....
Ingram Micro: Santa Ana, California - Rooftop Systems Provide Flexibility and Low First Cost With Tilt-Up Construction
Ingram Micro Inc. is a leading distributor of information technology products and services worldwide. It offers one-stop shopping to its customers by providing a comprehensive inventory, which, on a global basis, consists of more than 280,000 products from over 1,700 suppliers. The IntelliPak rooftop, which is available in sizes ranging...
Case Study Broward Financial Centre Fort: Lauderdale, Florida - 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. The 24-story Broward Financial Centre is one of the largest commercial properties in downtown Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The major system components were...
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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...
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...
Herb Alpert and Lani Hall Sign With Ted Kurland Associates Booking Agency for Worldwide Representation After Sold-out Tour
LOS ANGELES, July 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Legendary trumpet player Herb Alpert and his wife, internationally renowned GRAMMY-winning singer Lani Hall, have signed with the Boston, MA-based booking agency Ted Kurland Associates TKA for worldwide representation. TKA will exclusively represent Alpert and Hall both for their performances...
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Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services: 541611
