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ADEY survey highlights opportunities for installers
4 November 2013 Only 55% of homeowners have their boiler serviced annually, according to a new survey by ADEY Professional Heating Solutions. The research was carried out among 1,300 UK homeowners and found that one in 20 believe that getting their boiler serviced is an unnecessary expense. In addition, 45% of homeowners claimed to have a boiler that is between 10 and 15 years old. Worryingly, 25...
Grafton Group acquires Belgian merchanting firm
4 November 2013 Grafton Group, the building materials supplier, has agreed the acquisition of Binje Ackermans SA, a six branch builders merchanting business based in Brussels and trading under the MPRO brand, for ?20.5m. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2014 subject to approval from the Belgium Competition Authority. Binje Ackermans SA is a wholly-owned su...
Tower Tech Wins District Cooling Award
4 November 2013 Oklahoma City -- Tower Tech Inc., a manufacturer of cooling towers, teamed with Energy International Corp. (EIC), a leading supplier of HVAC equipment to the Middle East, to win the Recognition Honors award for Manufacturer (Cooling Towers) at the first annual District Cooling Awards held at the Grand Hyatt in Doha, Qatar. The awards were presented at a gala dinner ceremony ...
Jaga Announces Winners of Radiator Heating Accessory Challen
4 November 2013 Toronto -- Jaga Climate Systems announced the winners of its Mookum Challenge, an international design contest aimed at finding new innovations in heating accessories. The Warmlight from Studio#3:13 in Belgium earned the Jury Prize, and the TRYangle Me by Kaat Verhelstin, an independent designer in Belgium, was awarded the Public Prize. Open to anyone around the world, participant...
States Are Advancing Energy Efficiency
4 November 2013 Washington -- States have been essential to the progress the United States has made in using energy more efficiently, according to a new paper released by the National Governors Association (NGA). Governors play an important role in advancing energy efficiency and are supporting efforts to help consumers lower their energy costs, reduce state energy expenditures, defer the n...
Integrated Building, Enterprise Energy Management to Bring D
4 November 2013 London -- Both building energy management systems (BEMS) and enterprise energy management (EEM) have major parts to play in delivering distributed energy and demand response services connecting across smart buildings, says Memoori Business Intelligence Ltd. Integrating services in buildings is not a new development but recent advances have spurred demand and opened up new business ...
EPB non-compliance costs taxpayer millions
4 November 2013 The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) is highlighting a significant case where the lack of enforcement of Energy Performance of Building Regulations (EPB Regulations) has cost taxpayers 5.7m. At a time when energy policy is one of the most serious issues facing government, CIBSE argues that this non-compliance can be overlooked no longer. Dr Hywel Davies...
Ignoring Labor Re-rate in an HVAC company's Accounting Pract
4 November 2013 Halloween was last month and I’m sure there were many scary moments for the children of this country. What’s even more frightening than any ghost or goblin is the issue of not taking b...
CCC Chairman’s green business links draw criticism
4 November 2013 Lord Deben’s green business links have attracted fresh criticism as energy secretary Ed Davey reveals he knew of the former conservative minister’s green interests, the Daily Mail repo...
Warming up for the winter chill
November 03, 2013 In 2000 we moved into an apartment in Tokyo run by the semi-public housing corporation UR. It was new and had a natural-gas heating system. Unlike other gas systems we’d used in the past, however, this one heated water that was then circulated to outlets in different rooms in the apartment. Direct gas ignition devices we’d bought for previous apartments were useless in our new on...
