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Refrigeration contract for new pelagic plant
08 May 2014 Frost and Skaginn have signed a contract for a new pelagic plant in Fuglafjordur, Faroe Islands. The contract is with a newly established company P/F Pelagos, whose four owners and ...
More good news for UK construction
13 May 2014 The latest NHBC figures show a 7% increase in the numbers of houses registered in Q1 this year, compared to the same period in 2013, with further growth expected. A total of 33,816 news were registered during the first quarter of 2014, compared to 31,739 in Q1 2013, says the report. London has previously been seen to lead the growth, but there is also encouraging signs fr...
Star Refrigeration Launches US Subsidiary, Azane Inc.
May 13, 2014 San Francisco -- Star Refrigeration Group announced that it has launched a new United States subsidiary, Azane Inc., to manufacture and supply its “low-charge ammonia” technology in the U.S. The company developed the technology to meet the environmental and legislative challenges that the HVACR industry was facing as Europe started the phaseout of R-22 refrigerant. The t...
Shaheen-Portman Bill Stalls in Senate
May 13, 2014 Forward momentum on the Shaheen-Portman energy efficiency bill ground to a halt Monday after Senate Democrats and Republicans failed to reach an agreement on the bill’s amendments, which included GOP-sponsored amendments on the Keystone XL pipeline, greenhouse gas emissions regulations, and natural gas imports. Charlie McCrudden, senior vice president for government relations a...
WATT Fuel Cell Acquires Pittsburgh Electric Engines
May 13, 2014 Port Washington, N.Y. -- WATT Fuel Cell Corp., a developer and manufacturer of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) components and systems, has announced its purchase of tubular SOFC developer Pittsburgh Electric Engines Inc. (PEEI), Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania. The acquisition agreement makes PEEI a wholly owned subsidiary of WATT and facilitates combining both companies’ fuel cell technologi...
IAQ Market to Reach Nearly $5.6 Billion by 2020
May 13, 2014 Boulder, Colo. -- IAQ monitoring and management systems can provide a healthy and productive indoor environment while saving both energy and money, notes Navigant Research. While adoption has been somewhat limited by the rate of the global economic recovery, new standards and regulations, as well as a heightened sensitivity to how the health and comfort of office workers affects produ...
Organizations Announce Commitment To Promote Resilient Build
May 13, 2014 Washington, D.C. -- Leaders of America’s design and construction industry - along with building owners and operators - for the first time have agreed to incorporate resilience in planning, building materials selection, design, construction and operational techniques to make the nation’s aging infrastructure more safe and secure. Resilience is defined as the ability to prepar...
MicroGroove Research on Heat Pumps Ready for Presentation at
Montreal, Quebec (May 12, 2014) -- As the number of applications for MicroGroove Technology continues to grow, so too does the need for research to guide engineers in the design of industry-first products. At the Eleventh International Energy Agency Heat Pump Conference (IEA HPC) in Montreal, Canada, a technical paper titled “Experimental investigation and structure optimization of distribu...
Southwest Broadcasting Baden-Baden
Heat-cold-coupling in the property supply. thermeco2 heat pumps can provide high flow temperatures with the highest COP. This way, these heat pumps introduce completely new application possibil...
30% reduction in energy use for new CO2 transcritical superm
13 May 2014 With the intention of achieving additional energy savings, the "RIMI Hypermarket Domus Pro“ store in Vilnius, Lithuania has been equipped with an advanced refrigeration system using CO2 as...
