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Manufacturers most optimistic since 1970s, says CBI
April 24, 2014 Business optimism among manufacturers saw its sharpest improvement since 1973, on the back of strong growth in orders at home and abroad, according to the latest CBI quarterly Industrial Trends Survey. The survey of 405 manufacturers found that in the three months to April 2014, growth in total order books and domestic orders was the fastest since 1995. Export orders grew strongly,...
AHRI Applauds Court Approval of Regional Standards Settlemen
April 24, 2014 Arlington, VA -- The Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI) today applauded approval by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit of the resolution of a laws...
Inadequate office temperature may cost the UK economy 15,7bn
23/04/2014 A new survey suggests around 2% of office hours are wasted due to the temperature alone, potentially costing the UK economy an estimated 15,7bn E annually. One Poll surveyed 2,000 people on behalf of air-conditioning and heating specialists Andrews Sykes, in a bid to discover how much the temperature affected workplace efficiency and output. It was found that less than a qu...
Real-time savings in buildings HVAC consumption
22/04/2014 BuildingIQ, an Australian-based software company, is making software that automatically makes real-time adjustments to building controls to reduce HVAC consumption based on several indicato...
Johnson Controls ranked 12th in Corporate Responsibility Mag
Milwaukee, April 24, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Johnson Controls today announced its 12th-place ranking in Corporate Responsibility (CR) Magazine’s 15th annual "100 Best Corporate Citizens List." The compan...
Friedrich Opens New Design & Development Center
24 April 2014 Friedrich, the San Antonio manufacturer of room air conditioners, announces the opening of its multi-million dollar state-of-the-art Design and Development Center (DDC) located at 957 Is...
40 HVAC and Plumbing Mobile Apps to Make A Contractor's Life
24 April 2014 Are you using mobile phone/tablet apps to market your HVACR and plumbing contracting services? Do you know that there are apps out there that can help you actually manage you business? Do you find yourself confused by the plethora of apps out there? By the way, do you have your own app? These are some of the questions asked during the Comfortech 2013 session conducted by Matt ...
SkillBuild holds south-west heat
24 April 2014 City College Plymouth has been selected to host the south-west heat of SkillBuild 2014 - the UK’s largest multi-trade competition for construction trainees and apprentices. SkillBuild, which is managed by CITB, the Sector Skills Council and Industry Training Board, as part of its ongoing work to bring new blood into the construction industry, is an annual event that sees buddi...
Regarding the Consolidation of System LSI Businesses in New
Tokyo, Osaka, and Yokohama, Japan, April 23, 2014 - Fujitsu Limited, Panasonic Corporation, and Development Bank of Japan, Inc. (DBJ) have signed a memorandum of understanding in which DBJ will make a...
Technology to improve thermal efficiency of windows
23 April 2014 After two and a half years of scientific research and technological development in polymer compounding and multi-layer extrusion techniques, a solution has been found to make windows more energy efficient. The project partners - which included Eurofilms Extrusion, Wells Plastics, Hanita Coatings, Hermanos Del Pino Espinosa and the UK Materials Technology Research Institute, a ...
