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BPI’s BSP Certificate Approved as Home Energy Score Credenti
March 18, 2015 MALTA, N.Y. - The Building Performance Institute’s (BPI’s) Building Science Principles (BSP) Certificate of Knowledge has been approved by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as a minimum qualifying credential for candidates to take the Home Energy Score Assessor exam. To offer DOE’s Home Energy Score to homeowners, assessors must work directly with a Home Energy Score Partner and h...
Energy Efficient Building Products Revenue to Exceed $4.3 Bi
March 18, 2015 BOULDER, Colo. - Today’s building stock accounts for a substantial amount of global energy use, putting increased pressure on governments and corporations to reduce their energy-related spending and carbon footprints, notes Navigant Research. As a result, energy efficiency has become a broad-based strategy to solve both of these challenges. According to a report from the research fi...
NASA tests on composite cryotank successful
17/03/2015 NASA recently completed a complex series of tests on one of the largest composite cryogenic fuel tanks ever manufactured, bringing the aerospace industry much closer to designing, building ...
DOE, EPA Rules 'Devastating' to Industry
March 18, 2015 Arlington, Va. - In testimony before the House Small Business Committee today, Viktor Anderson, Chief Engineer for Muskegon, Michigan-based Structural Concepts, a commercial refrigerati...
Use the Air Changes Calculation to Determine Room CFM
Mar 18, 2015 Engineering room airflow may present a real challenge when balancing an HVAC system. Most calculations only use the heat loss or gain of a room to decide on required airflow and often don...
YORK(R) to strengthen Malaysia alignment of air-conditioning
140-year-old American brand, with roots in Malaysia since 1978, plans to grow PETALING JAYA, Malaysia - March 17, 2015 - Johnson Controls, a global multi-industrial company, announced today that its w...
Beijer Ref on acquisition trail again & continues internatio
17 Mar 2015 EUROPE: Swedish refrigeration technology group Beijer Ref AB, has announced it is acquiring all the shares in the refrigeration wholesale company, Patton, which has its head office in Auck...
Alkimos Beach master plan sets a new standard
17 Mar 2015 Alkimos Beach in Perth’s northern coastal corridor has been awarded Australia’s first 6 Star Green Star - Communities rating for a residential master-planned project from the Green Buildin...
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Toho Gas Jointly Develop New
Tokyo, March 18, 2015 - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) and Toho Gas Co., Ltd. have jointly developed a new 450-kilowatt (kW) gas cogeneration system. The new product will be launched into the...
Alfa Laval wins SEK 75 million natural gas order
March 17, 2015 Alfa Laval - a world leader in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling -has won an order to supply air cooler systems to a natural gas plant in Brazil. The order, booke...
