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PPI Licenses ECO-MAX Adsorption Chillers to Bry-Air Asia
Feb 26, 2015 ATHENS, Ga. -- Power Partners Inc. (PPI) and Bry-Air Asia, headquartered in India, have signed a license agreement for Bry-Air Asia to manufacture and sell PPI’s ECO-MAX brand adsorption chillers in India and other markets. This agreement enables Bry-Air Asia to further expand its product portfolio to include closed-loop adsorption products. Under the agreement, Power Partners ...
Optimum Energy Appoints New President and CEO
Feb 26, 2015 SEATTLE -- Optimum Energy, a provider of data-driven heating and cooling optimization solutions for enterprise facilities, announced that it has appointed Bert Valdman as president and chief executive officer. Valdman joins the company from Edison International, where he was senior vice president and chief strategy officer since 2011. He has served on the Optimum Energy board of direc...
COP21 UN climate change conference 2015
Feb 26, 2015 During this hallmark event, 194 countries will come together to reach a new international climate agreement, applicable to all countries, to keep global warming below the threshold of 2°C. Each participating country’s commitments, as discussed in Lima in December 2014, will be studied and renegotiated with this objective in mind. Bringing together cross-sector players fr...
Emerson Climate Technologies HVAC Check & Charge? Mobile App
26 February 2015 Free app released in late 2012 provides smart phone and tablet users with instant mobile access to Emerson’s HVAC refrigerant charge calculator St. Louis, February 26, 2015 -Em...
ARCA Receives Patent for Refrigerant Recovery and Recycling
25th February, 2015 MINNEAPOLIS - Appliance Recycling Centers of America Inc. (ARCA) announced that it has been granted a patent (U.S. Patent No. 8,931,289) covering its systems, methods, and techniques for facilitating the recovery and recycling of refrigerants and oil from air conditioners, refrigerators, freezers, and other appliances that contain refrigerant. Using techniques described ...
West Virginia Lawmaker Wants to Repeal State’s HVAC Regulati
Feb 25, 2015 There’s some HVAC-inspired trouble brewing in the state of West Virginia, according to the West Virginia Gazette, as Eric Eyre writes that Republican Delegate Eric Householder sponsored a...
Products for Week of February 22
Feb 25, 2015 Samsung Introduces Commercial Units at AHR Samsung reports it is entering the North American HVAC market in 2015 with what are described as leading-edge product offerings for the commerc...
ASHRAE/IES Updates Standards for Existing Building Efficienc
24 February 2015 If you’re a contracting business that frequently works with buildings, you should read through the revised standard from ASHRAE and IES that seeks to give greater guidance on retrofit...
ASHRAE seeks data centre comments
Feb 23, 2015 USA: A proposed standard from ASHRAE providing requirements for energy use in data centres is open for public input. ASHRAE Standard 90.4P, Energy Standard for Data Centers and Tel...
Codes, Standards Developers Align Guidelines To Create Susta
Feb 23, 2015 Consistency will benefit the environment, code compliance, builders, designers WASHINGTON - Several leading associations that develop codes and standards to create green buildings are collaborating to align the International Green Construction Code (IgCC), ANSI/ASHRAE/IES/USGBC Standard 189.1 and the LEED green building program. The initiative is being welcomed by code officials, arc...
