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ASHRAE bEQ Program Qualifies for Florida Rating System under
Jul 3, 2014 ATLANTA -- Under amended Florida legislation, ASHRAE’s building energy rating and labeling program known as Building Energy Quotient (bEQ) now qualifies as an energy rating option for buildings in the state of Florida. Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed House Bill 7147, which qualifies the bEQ program as an approved system. The provisions in the bill amend a 2013 Florida law specify...
ACCA Publishes Quality Maintenance Checklist for Building Ow
Jul 3, 2014 Arlington, Va. -- ACCA has published a new Commercial Quality Maintenance Checklist, based on ANSI/ACCA/ASHRAE 180 - Standard Practice for Inspection and Maintenance of Commercial Building HVAC Systems, to help building owners and operators select a contractor to perform maintenance on their heating and cooling systems. ACCA’s Commercial Quality Maintenance Checklist features se...
Electrolux Design Lab Names 35 Semi-Finalists
Jul 3, 2014 The 2014 Electrolux Design Lab competition has entered its next stage by choosing the top 35 finalists. The theme in 2014 is Creating Healthy Homes. Entries present design solutions...
New Cooling Standards Approved by AHRI Subcommittee
Jul 3, 2014 The Cooling Standards Subcommittee (CSS) of the Air Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI) voted on revised standards on June 10 during a web conference. AHRI’s Standard 700-2012 with Addendum 1, Specification for Fluorocarbon Refrigerants, for the first time includes hydrocarbon (i.e.: single component and blends) and carbon dioxide refrigerants. The single compon...
Transport refrigeration using liquid nitrogen proposed as wa
3 July 2014 A report from a collaboration of academics and industry proposes nitrogen for cooling and motive power in transport refrigeration as the first step in creating low-emission commercial vehi...
ESS takes engineers to Italy
03 July 2014 Last month heat pumps and hvac distributor ESS (Environmental Site Supplies) took a group of UK consulting engineers to experience the best of Italian engineering design. In Bergamo, the group visited gas absorption heat pumps (GAHPs) specialist Robur, and in Maranello, just outside Modena, they visited the famous Museo Ferrari. Robur hosted the visit to its factory and ...
Scotland leads independent renewable sector
3 July 2014 According to the latest Energy Entrepreneurs Report, Scotland is leading the way in growth of Great Britain’s independent renewable sector with an increase of almost 50 per cent in project numbers since the last report was released in 2013. An estimated ￡67m has been invested in 169 new commercial-scale projects, taking the total number of schemes of north of the border to 509....
Government targets 53.3GW auction
3 July 2014 Edward Davey, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, has announced the amount of electricity generation capacity the Government will procure when it re-introduces a capacity market into the UK later this year. Following recommendations from National Grid, the Government will procure a total of 53.3 GW of electricity generating capacity. This ensures that energy genera...
UK invested ￡300m in independent renewables in 2013
3 July 2014 Almost ￡300m was invested in commercial-scale independent renewable energy projects by businesses, communities, farmers and landowners last year, new figures reveal. The statistics compiled by SmartestEnergy for this year’s Energy Entrepreneurs Report show 843 new projects, with an average cost of ￡353,000 each, came on supply. The 2,930 non-Big Six projects of over 50k...
Johnson Controls donates heating and cooling systems to 12 m
York(R) distributors and contractors support Building Homes for Heroes MILWAUKEE, July 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Johnson Controls, a global multi-industrial company, and its York brand of heating...
