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ASHRAE Announces Changes to ‘In Operation’ Rating for bEQ Pr
8 August 2014 ATLANTA -- To allow greater uniformity for building types seeking an In Operation rating under its Building Energy Quotient (bEQ) program, ASHRAE announced it is now using methodology from its standard for energy efficiency in existing buildings to calculate the rating. The bEQ program, a method of rating and labeling buildings based on energy use, offers two rating labels: an...
UN releases Ban Ki-moon climate summit plan
8 August 2014 By Ed King Politicians, business leaders and civil society face packed schedule during 11-hour gathering Heads of state speeches are set to take up half of Ban Ki-moon’s climate summit...
Johnson Controls Building Efficiency to implement price incr
MILWAUKEE (August 8, 2014) -- Johnson Controls announces a price increase from 3 to 7 percent on select products and solutions offered through its Building Efficiency branches in the United States and...
Balfour Beatty appoints new director to address M&E business
8 August 2014 Balfour Beatty’s UK and Ireland construction business has announced the appointment of Mark Hoyland as managing director of its building services mechanical and electrical engineering bu...
Cold, draughty, mouldy: What the UK public think about their
8 August 2014 New research looking at the public’s energy saving attitudes and behaviours has been revealed by the Energy Saving Trust in the first of a series of public opinion trackers known as the UK Pulse. The findings from the Ipsos MORI survey of more than 2,000 UK respondents show nearly half of householders (44%) claim to live in homes with draught problems, 38% in homes with conden...
Five Key Elements in Completing and Delivering a Building to
August 8, 2014 Assurance that a building is delivered and performs as designed (and meets owner’s expectations) when occupied, is a popular response to the question as to why an owner contracts for co...
The Advancing 80s: HVACR Advertising in the Great Decade of
August 8, 2014 Let’s just say, "Tear down this wall!" and leave it at that. (Now THAT, and the headline should generate some comments, and at least one vitriol-laced email.) Greatness in innovation w...
MHI to increase Production of Composite Wing Boxes for Boein
-- Capacity of plants in Shimonoseki and Nagoya to be Expanded -- Tokyo, August 7, 2014 - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) will make investments for production facilities for the 787 composite...
Balfour appoints new leader for troubled M&E business
7 August 2014 Balfour Beatty has appointed the former managing director of property business Peverel Property Services to lead its troubled M&E division. According to Construction News, Mark Hoyland will become managing director of Balfour Beatty Engineering Services later this month. The M&E division has been the cause for profit warnings at Balfour Beatty in recent times. &...
Summer demand taxes Saudi power sector, but kingdom is worki
The hot sun that drives the seasonal surge also provides a renewable remedy 6 August 2014 Saudi Arabia abounds, of course, in energy resources, but a new source of demand is cutting into its oil output: domestic consumption, already high, is growing fast and threatens to crimp exports. Electricity use is increasing at about 7.5% annually, helping raise overall energy demand nationwide such ...
