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Virginia Medical Center Chooses Screw Chillers for New Central Plant
Southside Regional Medical Center in Petersburg, Virginia, was depending on an aging chiller plant, one that was showing decreases in both reliability and efficiency. The HVAC system consisted of two chillers supplying air handlers throughout the medical center building. As the chilled water and ice making performance of the Trane...
Graco Links Multiple Sites With Single Building Automation System
Graco, a world leader in the manufacturing of fluid-handling systems and components, attributes its success to commitments in technical excellence, world-class manufacturing and superior customer service. Improved management of HVAC equipment schedules, increased workforce productivity through enhanced environmental conditions, enhanced equipment diagnostic capabilities, improved energy cost control and monitoring capabilities,...
Hines Buildings-Phoenix, Arizona: Hines Buildings Earn US EPA/DOE Energy Star Label for Buildings
Hines is a privately owned real estate firm, founded in 1957 and headquartered in Houston, Texas. The building was designed to meet ASHRAE Standard 90.1, which sets performance standards for energy use, indoor air quality, and outside air ventilation. An important part of controlling the building's energy usage is the...
Energy Star Building Performance Showcased at Trane Technology Center: La Crosse, Wisconsin
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Energy Star Showcase Buildings Program was created in 1994 to encourage and highlight improved building energy efficiency. One of the important steps was the upgrading of the building's 2,800 lamp fluorescent lighting system with significantly more efficient T-8 lamps and matching ballasts. The building...
Attention to Detail Pays Off Refrigerant Management Key in Effective Asset Management
The corporate audit process is a mirror of the Hines corporate philosophy. The property manager or chief engineer alone can't speak for the building, but instead must list three operating engineers who have the expertise to speak on a given topic. Hines requires its property managers and chief engineers to...
Civic Center Music Hall-Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: Air Handlers Get Rave Reviews for Acoustics
When the acoustic performance standards for the air handling equipment were set, we didn't think we could achieve it with cataloged equipment. Consulting engineer James Stewart describes one of the major acoustic challenges in the design for the recently-renovated Civic Center Music Hall in Oklahoma City. A major part of...
PACT Case Study Shelby County Schools-Shelby County, Alabama: Growing School District Uses PACT for Needed Facility Improvements
Shelby County Schools is one of the fastest growing school districts in Alabama. The district consists of 28 schools and one administration building, encompassing 2.1 million square feet. The project objective is to create a self-funding project which simplifies the procurement process, addresses deteriorating facilities and provides a single point...
Herman Miller MarketPlace: Zeeland, Michigan - Rooftop Comfort System Contributes to LEED Gold Rating
Herman Miller, Inc. is a leading global provider of office furniture and services for the workplace. The goal of the project was to create a prototype office environment that showcases practical applications of Herman Miller products and systems, while also serving as a working office for 450 Herman Miller employees...
Los Angeles Pierce College: Los Angeles, California - Pierce College Faces Comfort Challenge
The spacious 400-acre campus adjoining Winnetka Avenue is notable for its wooded park-like appearance. In the late 1990s, the administration studied future campus requirements. Needed improvements were identified, including new buildings, communications facilities, signs, and landscaping. Plans were also set for a broad lighting improvement program that would dramatically reduce...
Civic Center Music Hall: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Air Handlers Get Rave Reviews for Acoustics
The Music Hall has been a focal point in Oklahoma City for over six decades. Constructed of a very pale, fine-grained limestone, the building exterior is a strongly rectangular design with massive fluted pilasters, large lobby windows, and medallion-like relief carvings along the upper façade. Like the exterior, the building's...
Desert Samaritan Medical Center Chooses Custom Air Handlers: Mesa, Arizona - Area Growth Creates Need for Space
Desert Samaritan Medical Center in Mesa, Arizona, describes the urgency for a facility expansion. The expansion to the existing 550,000 square-foot facility would include an air handler system to be served by an existing chilled water plant. The HVAC system design, developed by mechanical engineer Bridgers & Paxton of Phoenix,...
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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...
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...
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Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services: 541611
