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2014.06.05

Submersion cooling: a solution for the IT industry?

04/06/2014 With the data centre industry growing by 12% annually, saving energy required for cooling is becoming a crucial issue and new options are being explored such as free-cooling, thermal energy...

2014.06.06

MHI to Establish 'Distributed Power Business Development Dep

-- Move Designed to Enhance Package Solutions Capability Involving Diverse Distributed Power Systems - Tokyo, June 4, 2014 - Effective July 1, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) will establish a...

2014.06.06

Alfa Laval wins SEK 100 million energy-efficiency order in C

04 June 2014 Alfa Laval - a world leader in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling - has won an order to supply compact welded heat exchangers to a coal liquefaction plant in China. ...

2014.06.02

Du Pont: 3m vehicles will use HFO-1234yf by end of year

4 June 2014 Du Pont has announced that it estimates nearly 3 million vehicles worldwide will use HFO-1234yf as a refrigerant by the end of 2014.   Thierry F. J. Vanlancker, president, DuPont Chem...

2014.06.05

Mitsubishi welcomes Non-domestic RHI extension

4 June 2014 Mitsubishi Electric has welcomed the official extension to the Non-Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) following the announcement by the Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC...

2014.06.05

Large firms to be forced to publish payment terms

4 June 2014 The government will make it compulsory for large companies to publish information about their payment practices, business secretary Vince Cable has announced.   Government will develop a “robust” payment reporting framework, strengthen the Prompt Payment Code and give ministers new powers to tackle late payment, it said today in response to the Building a responsible payment cultu...

2014.06.05

Vision Task Force Predicts How Buildings Will Be Built in 20

4 June 2014 Washington -- A task force of the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) buildingSMART Alliance? has launched a new website to offer visitors a glimpse into the not-too-distant future of the building industry.   The alliance is developer of the nation’s building information modeling (BIM) standard - National BIM Standard - United StatesR (NBIMS-US?). Its NBIMS-US Planning ...

2014.06.05

First Net-Zero Energy Designed Office Building in San Franci

4 June 2014 San Francisco -- DPR Construction has announced the opening of its new San Francisco Bay Area Regional Office, which is said to be the first net-zero energy office building in San Francisco. Designed to produce as much or more energy than it consumes, DPR’s San Francisco office aims to achieve official net-zero energy building (NZEB) certification by the International Living Future Ins...

2014.06.05

DOE’s Better Buildings Neighborhood Initiative Upgrades 100,

4 June 2014 Washington -- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that its Better Buildings Neighborhood Program has helped more than 40 state and local governments upgrade more than 100,000 buildings and save families and businesses over $730 million on utility bills. Supported by the Recovery Act, the program worked with 41 competitively selected state and local governments and their partn...

2014.06.05

Hawco launches new website

4 June 2014 Today sees the launch of Hawco Limited’s brand new state-of-the-art e-commerce website: www.hawco.co.uk.   The website, which has been five months in the making, includes all of the industry leading component parts and spares available for purchase in its popular catalogue, Quick Pick 5.   Main website features include: ? Over 2,000 products ? A comprehensive and easy to use ...