USA
2015 Quality Home Comfort Awards: Offering Options Brings in
14 July 2015 For the past 15 or so years, a 4-ton Trane XL1200 provided cooling and heating comfort toMr. and Mrs. Bruce Christopherson of Castroville, TX. When that unit’s days were over, he told Tim...
Lennox Mini-VRF Conditions Up to Seven Zones
14 July 2015 The mini-VRF is ideal for light commercial applications requiring high-efficiency conditioning of multiple zones. Lennox VRF Mini-VRF heat pump units offer a heating and cooling so...
Emerson Climate Technologies announces qualification of HFO
13 July 2015 | By Andrew Gaved Emerson Climate Technologies has announced the qualification of scroll and semi-hermetic compressors for the refrigerants R448A, R449A, R450A and R513A Compressor...
Lab explosion due to domestic fridge
12 July 2015 USA: A fridge explosion at Michigan State University (MSU) may have been due to the use of a domestic fridge in a laboratory environment. Emergency services attended MSU on Friday after an explosion in a laboratory in the University’s Giltner Hall. Part of the building was evacuated following the incident and, fortunately, the laboratory was empty at the time and no one was inj...
Copeland selection now online
13 July 2015 USA: Emerson’s Copeland selection software is now also available as an online version for compressor and condensing unit selection. Unlike former versions of Select which were only...
Increasing Need for Energy Efficiency Keeps Demand for Energ
13 July 2015 MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - The rise in energy prices and consumers’ focus on energy efficiency have compelled facility and home owners in North America to adopt energy-saving solutions, notes Frost & Sullivan. Suppliers are diversifying their portfolios with respect to system design and technology in order to remain competitive and meet the needs of building and home owners. A...
New Buildings Institute Introduces Retrofit Savings Estimato
13 July 2015 PORTLAND, Ore. - The New Buildings Institute (NBI) has announced a new, free tool to help building owners, managers, and contractors quickly evaluate the potential energy savings associated with various building retrofits. The Retrofit Savings Estimator is a web-based analysis engine that uses basic building information to automatically perform a set of custom building energy simulati...
CEA, LonMark Announce New Home and Building Automation Stand
13 July 2015 ARLINGTON, Va. - The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)R and LonMark International have announced two new standards for home and building automation. The organizations said these standards provide multiple parties - including users, developers, vendors, integrators, and specifiers of open building control systems - a mechanism to develop and deliver a higher level of device-to-dev...
AHRI Files Comments on Draft DOE Furnace Standard
Rule would save 40% less energy than claimed, while hurting manufacturers and consumers July 13, 2015 Arlington, Va. - The Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI) filed comments ...
Tech Update July 2015: Residential Temperature Controls
13 July 2015 Daikin launches new and improved VRV navigation remote controller Daikin recently launched a new and improved VRV navigation remote controller (BRC1E73) that incorporates several n...
