Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust has a primary investment focus on retail shopping malls as well as power and strip centers located in the Mid-Atlantic...
When the Manheim Township School District near Lancaster, Pennsylvania began planning a renovation and expansion of two Neff Elementary School buildings into a single facility, school officials and design professionals faced a great challenge in selecting a HVAC system. School officials needed the new HVAC system to accomplish their energy...
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. The result was Lighting retrofit, gas-fired...
PinnacleHealth System is the leading healthcare provider to almost 500,000 people in the tri-county area surrounding Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. This case study illustrates some of the patient quality accomplishments of the PinnacleHealth System of Pennsylvania. By leveraging Information Technology IT from Siemens Medical Solutions Health Services Corporation, PinnacleHealth has made unique...
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...
The Paragon Center, an 80,000-square-foot office and condominium complex in Allentown, Pennsylvania, has set new standards in efficiency and environmental consciousness. Because the Paragon Center has an unusually large cooling requirement compared to the heating requirement, it was more economical to reject a portion of the cooling load through the...
Winchester Road Limited Partnership built the Paragon Centre as an office condominium. The Paragon Centre, an 80,000-sq.-ft. Office condominium in Allentown, Pa., represents a showcase of innovative energy-efficient technologies. The building's original design called for a 100% ground-coupled heating/cooling system with a cooling load capacity of 200 tons. To overcome...
A new Comfort Inn, located in Towanda, Pennsylvania, went into service in late 1995. The rooms will be serviced by 3/4-ton heat pump units and the common areas with two 3-ton units. There are also five 5-ton water-to-water units that are used for heating the pool and making hot water....
As a result of an innovative financing arrangement, Beaumont at Bryn Mawr, life care community in a fifty-acre campus setting in Pennsylvania is now heated and air conditioned with GeoExchange geothermal heating and cooling system. The GeoExchange system and circulating pumps were metered individually by the energy services company to...
Karen opened Perfectly Pennsylvania, a store dedicated to the state's rich mix of products, in the new terminal of Harrisburg International Airport. Anchored by Brookmere's Wines of Belleville, Perfectly Pennsylvania carries a variety of unique, high-quality products ranging from Crayola Crayons and Slinky toys to clothing and Amish-country quilts and...
The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania recently decided a significant issue for homeowners associations in planned communities in Pennsylvania. The case is entitled Saw Creek Estates Community Association, Inc. v. County of Pike and the Pike County Board of Assessment Appeals. The question presented by the case is whether a restaurant...
The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania recently decided a significant issue for homeowners associations in planned communities in Pennsylvania. The case is entitled Saw Creek Estates Community Association, Inc. v. County of Pike and the Pike County Board of Assessment Appeals. The question presented by the case is whether a restaurant...
One of Hershey's new distribution facilities relies on a conventional design and smart slotting to quickly deliver chocolates to sweet tooths everywhere. This 1.2 million square foot building, located in Hershey, Pa., is packed full of millions of candy bars as well as cocoa, syrup and many other chocolate delights....
Teams are critical instruments of operationalizing effectiveness and efficiency in organizations. An effective team facilitates in the quality improvement process. Building an effective team is an important process. The team leader has to recognize and comprehend the four different stages in a team building process viz. forming, storming, norming, and...
With the rapid growth of E-commerce and on-line consumer shopping trends, the importance of building and maintaining customer loyalty in electronic marketplaces has come into sharper focus in marketing theory and practice. This paper integrates previous research in the field of brand loyalty to present a conceptial framework of "e-loyalty"...
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-8 June 2009-Church & Dwight to Build New Laundry Detergent Plant in PennsylvaniaC2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Church & Dwight Co. has announced plans to construct a new integrated laundry detergent manufacturing plant and distribution center in York County, Pennsylvania. The Company said...
FULL NAME: George Kenneth Griffey, Jr. AGE, HT., WT: 38, 6-3, 205 BORN: November 21, 1969 in Donora, Pennsylvania HOME: Orlando, Florida STATUS/FAMILY: Married NICKNAME: Junior LIFE OUTSIDE OF BASEBALL: It's mostly with the family, and usually whatever...
The jackpot in America's favorite lottery gamecontinues to move. Even though the grand prize was not awarded Wednesdayevening, 11 lucky tickets in Kentucky (2), Louisiana (1), North Carolina(1), New Hampshire (1), Pennsylvania (1), South Carolina (2), Tennessee(1), and West Virginia (2) matched all 5 white numbers and won $200,000cash...
NEWARK, N.J. -- Prudential Financial, Inc.'s (NYSE:PRU) Group Insurance business opened its new Enrollment Support Center today, which will provide call center services, enrollment processing, evidence of insurability screening, and other support services to employers of all sizes for voluntary or contributory life and disability plans. The new center will...
MessageLabs, the leading provider of messagingand web security services to businesses worldwide, today announcedyear-to-date spam rates for individual US states, according to MessageLabsIntelligence data. The top 10 most spammed US states are as follows: 1. Illinois2. South Dakota3. Oregon4. New Hampshire5. Wisconsin6. North Carolina7. Indiana8. Texas9. Pennsylvania10. Alabama "The varying...
So this is what a day of reckoning feels like. Already down 23% from its October high, the Dow Jones industrial average touches a two-year low. The Labor Department says wholesale prices are rising at their fastest pace since Ronald Reagan's first year in the White House. Embattled...