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Los Angeles County Votes to Adopt Residential Energy Efficie
Mar 23, 2015 LOS ANGELES -- The county of Los Angeles has voted to make the Home Energy Renovation Opportunity (HERO) Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program available to local residents. Los Angeles County and 84 cities within the county, including the city of Los Angeles, join more than 200 other cities and counties that have adopted HERO. HERO makes energy- and water- saving renova...
DOE and NIBS Release Better Buildings Workforce Guidelines
Mar 23, 2015 WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) have announced new Better Buildings Workforce Guidelines. The guidelines, developed with feedback from industry experts, are designed to enhance and streamline commercial building workforce training and certification programs. “As building technologies become more advanced, ...
Building Automation Cumulative Revenue to Top $713 Billion f
Mar 23, 2015 BOULDER, Colo. -- Today, the opportunities presented by analyzing the vast amounts of data that building automation systems (BAS) can collect are accelerating their adoption across the commercial building sector, states Navigant Research. In particular, the integration of smartphones into many interactions between humans and the world around them is shifting the expectations of buildi...
Registration Open for Free ASHRAE Webcast On Existing Buildi
Mar 23, 2015 ATLANTA -- Registration for the 2015 ASHRAE Webcast, “New Tomorrows for Today’s Buildings: Existing Building Commissioning,” is now open at www.ashrae.org/webcast. There is no fee for registration. The webcast, offered by ASHRAE’s Chapter Technology Transfer Committee (CTTC), is broadcast live on April 23, 2015, from 1-4 p.m. EDT. The webcast features industry experts who will ...
Ingersoll Rand's Marcia Avedon Named to Human Resource Execu
Davidson, N.C., March 23, 2015 -- The Human Resource Executive magazine recognized Marcia Avedon on its 2015 list of The Most Powerful Women in HR. Avedon is the senior vice president of human resourc...
CIBSE publishes new edition of environmental design guide
23 March 2015 Now its eighth edition, CIBSE Guide A: Environmental Design continues to exist as the authoritative reference source for designers and installers of building services, particularly low energy and environmentally sustainable buildings. The publication focuses on the individual aspect of environmental design such as criteria for design (e.g. comfort criteria, weather data) as we...
￡155m loan facilities for private residential housing solar
23 March 2015 Macquarie Infrastructure Debt Investment Solutions (MIDIS) has provided three individual financing facilities to private residential housing and commercial solar PV operator, A Shade Greener (ASG). The total funding amounted to ￡155m in total and was used to refinance free solar portfolios of feed-in tariff solar panels. The facilities were advanced as part of a framew...
Islington Council to plan new consultation over communal hea
23 March 2015 A five-month heating shut-off experienced by thousands of council tenants and leaseholders could be a thing of the past following a Finsbury pensioner’s petition, the Islington Gazette has reported. Resident Jo White collected 277 signatures against the council’s policy of turning off central heating for five months of the year. Ms White, 65, collected signatures of 277...
A New Era: 3-D Printing A/C Unit Sells for More Than $6,000
Mar 23, 2015 The 3-D printing trend has given a unique means of production to many industries. There have been 3-D printed shoes, toys, tools and even guns. Now, the technology is spreading its arms i...
Total Facilities 2015 returns to Sydney
20 Mar 2015 Next week 2,500 facilities management professionals are expected to converge on Glebe Island’s Sydney Exhibition Centre for the annual Total Facilities event. Taking place from Marc...
