SSOE Group has announced the acquisition of CRS Engineering & Design Consultants, a 50-person mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineering firm with offices in Birmingham and Huntsville, Ala.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced that it is soliciting input from all parties regarding how DOE can best support the expansion of HVACR businesses into residential whole-house energy-efficiency services. DOE has now extended the deadline for input to June 1.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) announced that it has evaluated a number of control strategies that can be implemented in a controller, which can be retrofitted into an existing unit, to substantially improve the operational efficiency of commercial packaged equipment.
As financial incentives are reduced in some major markets, other factors — in particular price reductions, new residential financing mechanisms, and third party ownership models — will become the key drivers for the solar photovoltaic (PV) market, according to a report from Pike Research.
Industrial and manufacturing companies in the United States must take additional measures to ensure they remain cost-competitive on a global scale, and the efficient use of energy is one area that U.S. industrial companies can improve upon to accomplish that, according to a report from Pike Research.
E|K Automation, a division of Ewing|Kessler Inc., announced that it has been named by Siemens Building Technologies as an authorized Siemens Solution Partner representing the Talon/Staefa Control System.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released its annual list of United States metropolitan areas with the most Energy Star certified buildings for 2011. The list of 25 cities is headed by Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Chicago, San Francisco, New York, Houston, Dallas, Riverside, Calif., and Boston.
The Con Edison Green Team has honored its top-performing customers and contractors for energy-saving accomplishments achieved through its Multi-Family Energy Efficiency Program.
United Rentals Inc. has announced the expansion of its specialty branch network with the opening of two locations in the northeastern United States and one in Texas. The new locations in Elmwood Park, N.J., and Corpus Christi, Texas, focus on temporary power and HVAC equipment for the construction and industrial markets.