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DANAC/Stiles Corporate Campus-Rockville, Maryland: Maryland Campus Mirrors Trends in Office Comfort-System Design
The DANAC/Stiles facility features advanced technology on a demanding construction schedule. In Rockville, Maryland, a three-building business campus totaling 300,000 square feet demonstrates the flexibility of the current generation of building comfort systems. Building comfort is achieved through a distributed system of modular air handlers, with conditioned-air distribution by VAV...
Historic Detroit Office Building Undergoes Vast Renovation Project
The 1.2 million square foot General Motors Building was completely renovated to serve as a major office building for the State of Michigan. The 15-story building consists of an elongated central block with four projecting wings on the front and four in back. These wings were intended to allow ample...
New Office Facility Uses Custom Air Handlers to Maintain Ideal Work Environment
Beverly Enterprises and its operating subsidiaries comprise a leading provider of post-acute health care in the United States. The Tracer Summit system enables Don Stewart, supervisor of facilities engineering, to main comfort and ventilation levels at the high standards set by Beverly and the system designer. Employee comfort and well-being...
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...
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...
Windy Point Office Building: Schaumburg, Illinois - Windy Point Building Places Emphasis on Individual Tenant Comfort
The seven-story building encompasses 186,000 square feet of rented office space in Schaumburg, Illinois, 10 minutes northwest of O'Hare Field. A WSHP system for the building was chosen to accommodate tenants with variable occupancy schedules and a desire to provide maximum local temperature control. The WSHP units range in size...
DANAC/Stiles Corporate Campus: Rockville, Maryland - Maryland Campus Mirrors Trends in Office Comfort-System Design
The DANAC/Stiles facility features advanced technology on a demanding construction schedule. In Rockville, Maryland, a three-building business campus totaling 300,000 square feet demonstrates the flexibility of the current generation of building comfort systems. The connected buildings use a combination of centrifugal and helical-rotary chillers in a variable primary configuration for...
Cadillac Place: Detroit, Michigan - Historic Detroit Office Building Undergoes Vast Renovation Project
This was a complex project on a very tight timetable. The state agencies were moving into parts of the building while we were still working on other sections. The 1.2 million square foot General Motors Building was completely renovated to serve as a major office building for the State of...
First Union Tower: Orlando, Florida - Orlando Office Building Solves a Longstanding Problem
The First Union Tower is a modern building in a prime location in Orlando. The only problem with the facility was that the building cooling plant couldn't keep up with the cooling demand. In 1999 the building's HVAC plant received a complete makeover that has resulted in dramatically improved comfort...
Beverly Enterprises: Fort Smith, Arkansas - New Office Facility Uses Custom Air Handlers to Maintain Ideal Work Environment
Beverly Enterprises and its operating subsidiaries comprise a leading provider of post-acute healthcare in the United States. Shortly after relocating in Fort Smith, the company purchased a 65-acre plot of land on the outskirts of the city. Planning for that facility began in 1996, with the initiation of site studies....
Sam Nunn Atlanta Federal Center: Atlanta, Georgia - One of the Largest Federal Office Buildings
In a unique combination of traditional and contemporary architectural elements, the Sam Nunn Atlanta Federal Center houses 5,000 employees for dozens of federal agencies. The center combines four distinct structural elements in a Ushaped configuration in central downtown Atlanta, near the Georgia Dome and the recreational attraction Underground Atlanta. 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...
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Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services: 541611
