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October 2012

October 2012

Features

  • Oct. 2, 2012
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    Parallel Benefits of Variable Speed

    It’s no secret that energy consumption is on the rise throughout the world. At the current growth rate, predictions by the Edison Electric Institute indicate, the United States alone could see an increase in usage as high as 31 percent by 2035—and that is in the face of a global economic crisis....More
  • Oct. 2, 2012
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    Keys to Designing More-Effective Control Systems

    Building-control systems are notorious for failing to meet the performance expectations of their designers and operators....More
  • Oct. 3, 2012
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    DDC Gain Without the Pain

    For Class A office buildings, which compete for the most prestigious tenants and command the highest rents, expectations are considerable....More
  • Oct. 3, 2012
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    Energy-Harvesting, Wireless Automation

    2012 has been a year of blistering heat, wildfires, and drought throughout much of the United States. With the specter of climate change looming, experts believe such extreme weather events will only become more common....More

Columns

  • Oct. 2, 2012
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    ‘It’s About the Economy, Stupid’

    Back in 1992, during the Bill Clinton and George Bush presidential election, this slogan was used to put forth the proposition that all elections are about the economy....More
  • Oct. 2, 2012
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    Timing Is Key When Purchasing Energy

    Everyone is familiar with the saying, “Timing is everything.” It is true that most endeavors benefit from proper and deliberate timing, and energy procurement is no exception....More

Departments

  • Oct. 2, 2012
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    BIM Processes and Software Aid Delivery of Facility for Cutting-Edge Cancer Therapy

    Set to open in spring 2013, the $225 million Scripps Proton Therapy Center in San Diego, a state-of-the-art, leading-edge cancer center, consists of two vastly different structures: (1) a large concrete bunker with walls as thick as 16 ft housing a 90-ton cyclotron and associated equipment and five proton-therapy treatment rooms and (2) a steel-framed clinical facility containing equipment and space for magnetic-resonance-imaging- and computed-tomography-scan diagnostic services, exam rooms, and offices for physicians and other staff....More
  • Oct. 2, 2012
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    Exterior Use, Humid Climate No Match for Elastomeric-Foam Pipe Insulation

    Completed in 2010, the 55-acre, nine-building Center of Arts and Academics in North Charleston, S.C., is home to two magnet schools—Charleston County School of the Arts and Academic Magnet High School—that function separately, but share the cafeteria, administrative buildings, media center, and gymnasium....More

News & Notes

  • Oct. 1, 2012
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    HPAC Engineering Appoints Dave Moser to Advisory Board

    Dave Moser, PE, CPMP, a senior engineer with PECI (www.peci.org), a Portland, Ore.-based non-profit organization providing energy-efficiency services...More
  • Sep. 26, 2012
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    Center for Green Schools at USGBC Green Apple Initiative to Begin Saturday

    Green Apple, a global initiative of the Center for Green Schools at the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) providing individuals, companies, and organizations the opportunity to transform schools into healthier, safer, more cost-efficient, and more productive learning places, will celebrate its official launch with the first Green Apple Day of Service Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012....More
  • Sep. 12, 2012
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    Fire-Lite Alarms Offering Free Accredited Online Training

    Fire-Lite Alarms by Honeywell, manufacturer of non-proprietary, unrestricted fire-alarm and emergency communications systems for commercial applications, recently launched a series of free, nationally accredited courses covering basic to advanced fire-alarm technology and applications....More
  • Oct. 1, 2012
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    Mestek Announces Purchase of Dadanco-Mestek JV

    Mestek Inc., the Westfield, Mass.-based manufacturer of HVAC and metal-forming products, recently announced the conclusion of an agreement to purchase remaining interest in Dadanco-Mestek JV from Dadanco Pty Ltd. of Adelaide, Australia, with which it formed a joint venture to produce and market active chilled beams, induction units, and induction diffusers for the North, Central, and South American markets in 2007....More
  • Jul. 24, 2012
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    Green-Building Consultant Releases ‘Water Wars’ Video Series on YouTube

    Green-building and sustainability consultant Jerry Yudelson, PE, MBA, LEED Fellow, recently released a three-part video series titled “Water Wars” on YouTube....More
  • Oct. 1, 2012
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    DRI-STEEM Names President

    Jon Summers, LEED AP, is the new president of DRI-STEEM Corp., the Eden Prairie, Minn.-based designer and manufacturer of humidification systems....More
  • Sep. 26, 2012
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    Emerson Network Power Introduces Roadmap for Reducing Data-Center Energy Consumption

    Emerson Network Power, provider of software, hardware, and services designed to maximize the availability, capacity, and efficiency of critical infrastructure, recently introduced Energy Logic 2.0, a vendor-neutral approach to reducing data-center energy consumption....More
  • Sep. 26, 2012
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    ASHRAE Issues Guideline on Smoke-Control-System Commissioning

    ASHRAE recently announced the publication of Guideline 1.5-2012, The Commissioning Process for Smoke Control Systems....More
  • Oct. 2, 2012
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    Calendar

    Oct. 15-19 DDC Controls; Madison, Wis.; University of Wisconsin–Madison; http://bit.ly/UWM_N465. Oct. 15-19 Introductory Boiler Training Webinar, Cleaver-Brooks, http://bit.ly/Introductory_1012. Oct. 16 Fundamentals of Steam Utilization, Los Angeles, ......More

Products & Literature

  • Oct. 3, 2012
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    New Products

    Energy-recovery modules RAPID energy-recovery modules for direct- and indirect-fired heating or cooling sections feature an air-to-air plate exchanger that captures heat from an air handler’s exhaust air and transfers it to the incoming air at an ......More
  • Jul. 1, 2012
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    FREE LITERATURE

    Makeup-air Heaters Cambridge energy-efficient makeup-air heaters provide 100-percent direct-fired combustion efficiency. All Genuine Cambridge heaters...More
  • Oct. 3, 2012
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    New Products

    Multizone controller The intelligent Touch Manager (iTM) is a mutlizone controller with a 10.4-in. LCD color touchscreen. The controller can manage up to 512 indoor-unit groups (1,024 indoor units) when used with the iTM Plus adapter. Standard features ......More
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