USA

2015.05.12

Balfour Beatty Awarded Design-Build Contract for New Correct

May 11, 2015 SAN DIEGO - Kern County has selected Balfour Beatty Construction to design and construct a new $100.5 million addition to the Kern County Justice Facility located in Bakersfield, California. The 215,000-square-foot facility is expected to create 350 to 400 jobs for the local community, including a contractual target goal to subcontract 25 percent of design and construction services to...

2015.05.12

Residential Energy Management Market Worth $15.6 Billion by

May 11, 2015 DALLAS - The global residential energy management market was an estimated $2.86 billion in 2014 and is forecast to reach $15.6 billion by 2019, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40.4 percent between 2014 and 2019, according to a new market research report published by MarketsandMarkets.   The residential energy management market is segmented by MarketsandMarkets in ter...

2015.05.12

Tech Update: May 2015 New Software Products

May 11, 2015 Bluebeam Software Revu 2015   Bluebeam Software has released Bluebeam Revu 2015, the latest version of the company’s award-winning flagship solution. Revu 2015 introduces new feature...

2015.05.11

ABCO Suffern, NY Branch Holds Grand Opening on May 14

11 May 2015 ABCO, a leading independent distributor of HVAC and refrigeration products and solutions, will celebrate the grand opening of a bigger and better ABCO branch in Suffern, NY on Thursday, M...

2015.05.12

New Coleman LX Series Unit is 29% More Efficient, with a 14

11 May 2015 LX Series features include: ? Optimized heating and cooling solution for residential and light commercial buildings ? Single-cabinet design versus previous three-cabinet model Johnson Con...

2015.05.11

US Energy Demand Slows Except for Commercial, Industrial Sec

May 8, 2015 WASHINGTON - According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reference case projections in its Annual Energy Outlook 2015, domestic energy consumption is expected to grow at a modest 0.3 percent per year through 2040, less than half the rate of population growth. Energy used in homes is essentially flat, and transportation consumption will decline slightly, meaning that e...

2015.05.12

Franklin Energy Presents Energy Efficiency Experts of Tomorr

May 8, 2015 PORT WASHINGTON, Wis. -- Franklin Energy Services LLC, a leading national energy efficiency program implementation firm, has announced the 2015 recipients of its first annual Energy Efficiency Experts of Tomorrow scholarship program. Awardees include Anna Sommerfield of Michigan State University, Benjamin Goodman of Northwestern University, and Melissa Heinen of the University of Wisco...

2015.05.06

Open the Sales Door with KPIs

May 8, 2015 My last article outlined a strategy for determining which of your many accounts has significant potential and probability for business growth. One of the most effective ways to determine business potential is to use KPIs to compare a prospective account with others.   For example, let’s say you have several accounts that are primarily focused on the residential HVAC service and re...

2015.05.10

Fujitsu 'StubHub!' Contest Helps HVAC Contractors Get to the

May 8, 2015 Contractors earn points toward a StubHub! gift card for each Fujitsu Halcyon system installed between April 1 and June 30, 2015.   Advertisement   Ticket prices to sporting events continue to rise, and Fujitsu General wants to help HVAC contractors get to some games.   Fujitsu General is running a StubHub! gift card contractor promotion from April 1 through June 30. &nbs...

2015.05.09

New USDA Solar Power System Is Biggest in D.C. Area

May 7, 2015 HILLSBORO, Ore. - SolarWorld announced that it has provided 1.6 megawatts of 315-watt, 72-cell monocrystalline solar panels for a project to power the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) George Washington Carver Center. The four-building office campus houses many members of the federal department’s headquarters staff, including its Agricultural Research Service. The ground-mount ...