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Citrus Valley Medical Center-Los Angeles, California: Variable-Frequency Chiller Drives Enhance Hospital Efficiency
Citrus Valley Medical Center is a not for-profit health care facility serving the San Gabriel Valley, in the north central Los Angeles region.
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...
Montgomery County Government Center-Christiansburg,Virginia: Textile Mill Gets New Life as Government Building
The government of Montgomery County in western Virginia faced several challenges. One was the need for quality office space for many county departments. A second was what to do with a former textile factory that the county had owned since 1990, but had never adequately utilized. According to Philips, a...
Denver-based Firm Needed to Expand
J.D. Edwards & Company develops, markets, and supports enterprise software and supply chain computing solutions that enable customers to translate ideas into practical realities quickly and efficiently, using the company's software. The company recently completed construction of a Denver business campus. The individual campus buildings are equipped with a Trane...
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...
Armed Forces Recreational Center Uses Federal Government ESPC to Achieve Goals
Shades of Green is a 216,050 square foot resort facility with 287 rooms. The resort is operated by the United States Army for the benefit of active and retired military personnel. Shades of Green is located at the Walt Disney World Resort. The project objective is to reduce operating costs,...
Variable-Frequency Chiller Drives Enhance Hospital Efficiency
Citrus Valley Medical Center is a not-for-profit health care facility serving the San Gabriel Valley, in the north-central Los Angeles region. The two campuses each have central chiller plants in separate buildings, with two Trane CenTraVac 450-ton centrifugal chillers, Model CVHE, in each mechanical plant. All four of the chillers...
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...
Montgomery County Government Center: Christiansburg, Virginia - Textile Mill Gets New Life as Government Building
The government of Montgomery County in western Virginia faced several challenges. One was the need for quality office space for many county departments. A second was what to do with a former textile factory that the county had owned since 1990, but had never adequately utilized. Both problems were solved...
University of Florida Campus: Gainesville, Florida - Dispersed Chiller Plants With Central Control
By any measure, the University of Florida in Gainesville is large. Because of the campus location in central Florida, building cooling is essential. Nearly all of the cooling in the major academic buildings, laboratories, and health care facilities is by chilled water. The decision to use area chiller plants was...
Roanoke Times: Roanoke, Virginia - New Print Facility Requires Advanced Cooling Systems
The Roanoke Times originated in 1886 and today is the dominant newspaper in southwestern Virginia. The need for longer press runs and larger papers recently drove a decision to install a new, larger printing plant at the newspaper's headquarters in Roanoke. This new facility required additional comfort cooling, plus a...
Southside Regional Medical Center: Petersburg, Virginia - Facility Bases Design on Need for Reliability and Efficiency
Southside Regional Medical Center is an acute care general hospital with associated facilities in Petersburg, Virginia, 20 miles south of Richmond. The challenge was one familiar to many hospital facilities administrators. A medical center depended on an aging chiller plant, one that was showing decreases in both reliability and efficiency....
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...
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Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services: 541611
