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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...
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...
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...
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...
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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The truth is out there
A weekly look at the World *The oldest profession seems to be suffering less than most in the economic downturn. Economist Sudhir Venkatesh has been studying the sex industry since the 1990s, and says that high-end prostitutes see an upturn in trade when previously successful businessmen...
The New, Expanded Gallup Daily; New numbers on the election, the economy, well-being, and health every day
Synopsis: The Gallup Daily is expanding beyond the election and consumer confidence to include new daily measures on Americans' standard of living, the U.S. job market, well-being, and health. Since the start of this year, more than 7 million people have visited Gallup.com for the most current data...
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...
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...
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...
Blood money
IoS Investigation: Mugabe's investors The MPs cashing in on Zimbabwe's misery Cameron faces hypocrisy charge Tory frontbenchers are among those with shares in companies accused of propping up the violent - and now illegal...
High Growth Reported for the World HVAC Equipment Market
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the Industrial equipment industry is available in its catalogue. World HVAC Equipment Market http://www.reportlinker.com/p090370/World-HVAC-Equipment-Market.html HVAC equipment demand worldwide to increase 5% annually through 2010 World demand for HVAC equipment is projected to rise over...
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Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services: 541611
