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Market Research released: U.S. Appliance Industry Market Val
November 14, 2014 APPLIANCE has released its annual portrait of the U.S. appliance industry: Market Research: U.S. Appliance Industry: Market Value, Life Expectancy & Replacement Picture 2014. The annual report details the value of monthly shipments by the United States appliance manufacturing industry. Monthly Value of Shipments spans the period from January 1992 through August 2014. ...
USGBC Announces Extension of LEED 2009 Rating System
November 14, 2014 WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced that it will allow Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) users to register projects under the LEED 2009 rating system until Oct. 31, 2016. The original date for LEED 2009 registration to close was June 15, 2015. USGBC said the extension to October 2016 gives LEED users and members of the green building...
InsideIQ Building Automation Alliance Approves Restructuring
November 14, 2014 KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- The election of new leadership and approval of a restructuring plan with an emphasis on training were highlights of the InsideIQ Building Automation Alliance Fall Meeting. The alliance is an international organization comprised of independent building automation contractors. “Our members unanimously approved The Way Forward strategic initiative during ...
AHRI Releases September 2014 U.S. Heating and Cooling Equipm
Residential Storage Water Heaters U.S. shipments of residential gas storage water heaters for September 2014 increased 9.5 percent, to 365,132 units, up from 333,392 units shipped in September 2013. R...
Airedale launches AireTile floor fan solution to target data
13 November 2014 Airedale International has introduced a simple air flow management system to target data centre hotspots and improve the efficiency of aisle containment systems. Available in f...
Trane Honored for 15 Years of Green Seal Certification
November 12, 2014 Green Seal, an organization offering third-party certification of sustainability standards for both business-to-business and consumer products, recently honored Ingersoll Rand’s Tran...
ITC Rules That Imports of R-134a from China Do Not Harm US I
Nov 13, 2014 TLALNEPANTLA, Mexico - Mexichem, a global specialty chemicals company that produces refrigerant gases, announced that the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has ruled that imports of R-134a refrigerant from China do not harm United States industry. This ruling, however, runs counter to the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Oct. 15, 2014 proposed final resolution regarding an...
BPI Introduces Certification for Duct and Envelope Tightness
Nov 13, 2014 MALTA, N.Y. - The Building Performance Institute Inc. (BPI) has announced the introduction of its Infiltration and Duct Leakage (IDL) certification, a task-oriented credential that verifies a candidate can successfully conduct air infiltration and duct leakage tests to the ASTM E1554-07 standard. Sometimes referred to as duct and envelope tightness (DET) on the training side, e...
Importance of Refrigeration - And Ice Cream - Focus Of ASHRA
Nov 13, 2014 ATLANTA - From Cherry Garcia to Sea Salt Caramel, Americans love their ice cream. Nearly 9 percent of cow’s milk produced in the United States goes toward making ice cream, and America is...
Rees Scholarship Foundation Supports Future HVACR and Water
November 12, 2014 Arlington, Va. -- The Clifford H. "Ted" Rees, Jr., Scholarship Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable foundation of the Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI), tod...
