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The Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami is committed to becoming one of the country's leading bioscience research institutions. It also...More

During the fall of 2008, Jimmy Hughes, owner and president of Hughes Bro. Inc., was in the process of bidding a potable-water-piping job at a 65-room, four-story Comfort Suites hotel in Nashville, Tenn. With copper prices at an all-time high, he was looking for a more cost-effective alternative. It was at that time he learned of a solution that had been used successfully in other parts of the world for more than 30 years: Aquatherm Greenpipe. But it was not only Greenpipe's lower cost that caught Hughes' and the hotel owner's attention....More

While working for a contractor overseas about 25 years ago, I often was required to manage construction projects at remote locations. Considering the...More

A. O. Smith Corp. announced it has acquired Applied Energy Recovery Systems Inc. (AERS), a leading manufacturer of commercial and residential heat-pump water heaters....More

Roanoke, Va.-based Spectrum Design PC was the architectural and engineering firm of record for the repiping of the Bagley Building on the campus of the...More

Chartwell School, an award-winning private school located in Seaside, Calif., has become the first completely educational campus to be awarded Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum certification....More

Serving as the main patient-care facility on the 17-building, state-run Southwestern Virginia Mental Health Institute (SWVMHI) campus in Marion, Va., the 102,000-sq-ft Bagley Building was experiencing premature chronic failures of its plumbing system....More

Many system-design ideas that have been proved in commercial buildings, such as parallel pumping, can be applied to industrial facilities. Parallel constant-...More

The first fundamental canon of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' Code of Ethics of Engineers states, Engineers shall hold paramount the safety,...More

The vice president of my company had a heating contractor remove his furnace and replace it with two units to provide two heating zones. Soon after the units were put into operation, an objectionable odor occurred whenever the units were used....More

Control valves High-temperature characterized control valves meet the challenges of space-restrictive applications, such as unit ventilators and fan-coil...More