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Toshiba Shifts Date for Reorganization of Home Appliances/Vi
Nov 27, 2013 Toshiba Corp. has rescheduled the reorganization of its home appliances and visual products businesses. Toshiba said it September it will spin off its visual products business and ...
Consumers Willing to Pay Extra to Support Alternative Energy
27 November 2013 Atlanta -- More consumers say they are willing to pay extra to invest in and support alternative energy than to improve reliability, according to the latest edition of an annual Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative (SGCC) telephone survey of 1,001 United States residential electricity consumers nationwide. The survey, undertaken by Market Strategies International, determined t...
New System Manages Life Cycle of Refrigerants as Assets
27 November 2013 San Francisco -- EOS Climate has announced the launch of its Refrigerant Asset System? (RAS), a cross-sector business model that focuses on refrigerants as assets. Refrigerants have traditionally been treated as consumables in a linear model, in that they are produced, used, and replaced on an ongoing basis. The Refrigerant Asset System allows businesses to manage refrigerants as ...
Sainsbury’s opens first ‘Triple Zero’ stores
27 November 2013 Sainsbury’s new supermarket in Leicester is one of two ‘Triple Zero’ stores the retailer has just opened. It is Sainsbury’s most environmentally friendly store to date and uses the ve...
Motor Driven Systems conference to help UK reduce energy and
27 November 2013 The Motor Driven Systems Conference visited the South-east last week in the fourth of five UK dates configured to help UK industry generate huge financial savings from its motor drive...
The HVAC Service Profit Chain
27 November 2013 I first became aware of The “Service Profit Chain” in the early 90s, and presented a version of it for HVAC contractors in an early Comfortech conference. It was and is based on...
Creating a Stress-Free Company Culture
27 November 2013 Unhappy employees are more powerful than you think. If an employee is unsatisfied with their work they tend to be less productive than an employee who isn’t, and that time they spend being unproductive can cost you in the long run. Employees who are happy are also motivated. They work harder and get more satisfaction out of their work, and so it goes ‘round in a circle. But...
Indoor air quality - the elephant in the low carbon room?
27 November 2013 The science of climate change is now well accepted, and as such the UK’s international leadership, albeit faltering, in moving towards a low carbon economy must be welcomed. As always...
International Exposition Company Honored as AHRI 2013 Public
27 November 2013 Westport, Conn. -- International Exposition Company, the organization that produces and manages the AHR Expo, was recently honored by the Air-Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration I...
Part L changes incorporate cooling demand
26 November 2013 The 2014 Approved Documents L1A and L2A , which provide guidance on Conservation of Fuel and Power in new buildings, incorporates cooling and heating demands According to BSRIA...
