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Heat Recovery Industry in Germany
Heat recovery was a built-in feature in around 23,000 new ventilation and air conditioning systems installed in Germany in 2013, saving an estimated 1,900 GWh of thermal energy for an input of 103 GWh of electricity used to drive the equipment. Looked at as a form of heat pump, this is an energy efficiency ratio of 18.3. These findings come from a study at the Environmental Campus at the technical...
Threshold for Air Conditioning
How do you judge that a new office building will need air conditioning to be written into the specification at the design stage rather than leaving it to future occupants to experience overheating when the only solution then will be costly retrofit and unpredictable results? An attempt to answer the question is made by Swiss Standard SIA 382/1 which uses the EU standard EN 13779 as a basis ...
DOE Increases Access to Results of Funded Research
21 August 2014 WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that it is introducing new measures to increase access to scholarly publications and digital data resulting from DOE-funded research. DOE has launched the Public Access Gateway for Energy and Science (PAGES), a web-based portal that will provide free public access to accepted peer-reviewed manuscripts and published s...
New Course on Demand Response Part of ASHRAE’s Fall Online S
21 August 2014 ATLANTA -- A new ASHRAE Learning Institute (ALI) course, Building Demand Response and the Coming Smart Grid, addresses new technologies and design concepts to help lead the way to how buildings and their systems will interact with the coming smart grid. The course is part of the ALI fall online series. “Peak demand management and response are becoming more important in buildi...
Honeywell Enhances Connected Home Offering by Adding Voice C
Video Recording and Remote Software Downloading Among Other Updates to Popular Home and Business Controller MELVILLE, N.Y., August 20, 2014 - The home of the future took another step toward rea...
Canadian Housing Starts Expected to Edge Down
21 August 2014 Economic and demographic fundamentals will steer the Canadian housing industry through the second half of 2014 and into 2015, according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), the country’s national housing agency. "Recent trends have shown an increase in housing starts, which is broadly supported by demographic fundamentals. However, our latest forecast calls for starts...
Panasonic Releases 2014 Sustainability Report
21 August 2014 Panasonic Corporation released its Sustainability Report 2014, detailing its social and environmental initiatives. It explains Panasonic’s CSR/environmental management structures, inclu...
Manufacturing outlook still strong
21 August 2014 Expectations for manufacturing output growth in the next three months are strong, despite an easing of pace over the past quarter, the latest CBI Industrial Trends Survey shows. While nine sectors surveyed reported that the pace of growth had slowed in the past three months, sixteen sectors anticipate growth over the coming quarter. The survey of 414 manufacturers also found that ...
Mitsubishi expands in SW
21 August 2014 Mitsubishi Electric’s operations have grown so much in the South West region that the company is expanding into new offices within Bristol’s northern business district. Vantage C...
Chillventa Congressing - high-calibre technical programme de
21 August 2014 Preparations are in full swing as Chillventa enters its fourth round. From 14 to 16 October 2014, the exhibition halls in Nuremberg will once again play host to the international gathering of the refrigeration, air conditioning, ventilation and heat pump sector. “We are highly satisfied with progress for Chillventa 2014,” explains project manager Alexander Stein. “For the first time...
