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HERO Energy Efficiency Program Honored by Calif. Governor
Dec 30, 2013 Sacramento, Calif. -- California Gov. Jerry Brown presented the Home Energy Renovation Opportunity (HERO) Program with the Governor’s Environmental and Economic Leadership Award. The state presented this award to recognize the success of the HERO Program, which is a public-private partnership between cities and counties and the private sector that helps property owners to becom...
ASHRAE Publishes Revised Standard On Ventilation In Health C
Dec 30, 2013 Atlanta--In some sense, designers of health care facilities must follow the same creed as health care professionals: to first do no harm. A newly revised standard for ventilation of healt...
AHR Expo Survey of HVACR Manufacturers Predicts Good 2014
Dec. 30, 2013 HVACR manufacturers are looking up. That’s good news for an industry that’s been mired in the doldrums for five long years. It’s especially good when the news comes at the start of a new...
Bosch Experience Center at Serenbe Wins Earthcraft Award
Dec. 30, 2013 The Bosch Experience Center (BEC) at Serenbe was awarded the EarthCraft Light Commercial Project of the Year by The Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association and Southface, as part of th...
Navigant Research Predicts Growth in Building Automation Sys
According to a new report from Navigant Research, annual revenue from commercial BASs worldwide will grow from $56.9 billion in 2013 to $100.8 billion by 2021. Dec. 30, 2013 Commercial building automation systems (BAS) increasingly form the foundational infrastructure for advanced energy management products and services in the buildings sector. The automation of HVAC, lighting, fire & life saf...
Fish packaging with built-in nose
27/12/2013 Jenneke Heising’s research into three ways of measuring the freshness of packaged fish has been published in the Journal of Food Engineering. The three methods have one thing in common: they all involve measurements using a sensor in the packaging. As the fish decays, various substances are released into the air inside the packaging subsequently dissolving in water in the sensor. Heisi...
DECC consent granted for Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm planning
30 December 2013 The application made in September 2013 by Dudgeon Offshore Wind to the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to vary the offshore planning consent for the Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm has now been approved. The original planning consent was granted in 2012. These variations were requested following a review of the design of the offshore wind farm site undertak...
Energy efficiency: the gift that keeps on giving
20 December 2013 By Jeff Beyer Taking care of the amount of energy you use makes economic and environmental sense, says the Carbon Trust’s Jeff Beyer We’re told that the best Christmas gifts a...
Food company delays plans for $28M Indiana plant
November 21, 2013 A food-processing company says it has delayed the reopening of a closed factory near Cambridge City, about 60 miles east of Indianapolis. Sugar Creek Packing Co. officials say the delay is needed because of changes in construction plans for a sewage-treatment plant at the former Really Cool Foods plant. Project manager Timothy Sparks told the Palladium-Item of Richmond that the...
EnOcean Alliance Grows to 350 Members
27/12/2013 San Ramon, Calif. -- The EnOcean Alliance announced that the organization continues to grow as it welcomes LIXIL Corp. as its 350th member. The company is one of several that have joined in the past few months, including Helvar, Hubbell, NEC, VIMAR, and Toshiba. The alliance said the growing interest from leading companies shows the traction that its energy harvesting wireless standard ...
