Articles Tagged with ''Technology and HVACR''

Arc Suppression Technologies Introduces a Universal Nosparc Arc Suppressor

March 21, 2017

Arc Suppression Technologies Inc., Minneapolis, has introduced a universal NOsparc® arc suppressor capable of protecting a broad range of motors from single phasing – a destructive phenomenon that costs users billions of dollars in replacement contactors and motors.

RGF Opens Electro Mechanical Museum

The facility celebrates technology and innovation

March 13, 2017

This unique museum contains 642 pieces of rare antiquities by world-renowned inventors, such as Thomas Kinraide, Sir William Crookes, George Westinghouse, Benjamin Franklin, and Nikola Tesla.

Agency Demonstrates Winning Formula for Energy Innovation

March 7, 2017

The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) recently announced that 74 project teams have attracted more than $1.8 billion in private-sector follow-on funding since the agency’s founding in 2009. The announcement was made at the eighth annual ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland.

HVAC Service Is Still HVAC Service, Even in the Digital Era

The success of your company depends on it

Butch Welsch

February 20, 2017

Changes in the industry certainly bring challenges. Contractors must be prepared to provide information and answers regarding all of these new and different technologies. But, now comes the important part. It’s absolutely critical that contractors not lose sight of the personal and service portions of their businesses.

Keep Your Eyes on the Prize

Pay attention to trends and market changes

Steve Schmidt

February 6, 2017

If you’ve not been devoting a great deal of time and effort to ensure your service department is operating efficiently, profitably, and producing customer cheerleaders, you’re not preparing yourself or employees for solid futures. Make sure every policy and process in all your departments is specifically designed to produce high-quality experiences and the utmost in efficiency to keep your prices as low as possible.

DOE HVAC Project Wins an R&D 100 Award for 2016

Award recognizes innovative research with commercial potential

November 18, 2016

An HVAC technology developed by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has won one of this year’s R&D 100 Awards. The winning technology is called “HVAC Load Reduction Technology for Commercial Buildings.”

Keilly Witman, owner, KW Refrigerant Management Strategy

Three Keys to Accelerating Adoption of Natural HVAC Refrigerants

A call for utility incentives, industry benchmarks, and uniform modeling solutions

Leigha Joyal

Keilly Witman

October 10, 2016

Despite the long-term energy savings and environmental benefits natural refrigerant systems offer, their higher upfront costs remain a primary barrier to retailers’ widespread adoption of these technologies.

US, Europe Smart Homes Reached 17.9M in 2015

North America is the world’s most advanced smart home market

July 18, 2016

North America is the world’s most advanced smart home market; and the region had an installed base of 12.7 million smart homes at the end of the year, a 56 percent year-on-year growth.

PointGrab Joins Cisco Digital Ceiling Initiative for Smarter Buildings

CogniPoint deep learning-based edge-analytics sensors provide building digitization

July 8, 2016

PointGrab announced that it has joined the Cisco Digital Ceiling framework as a partner in developing building automation solutions over one IP network. The Cisco Digital Ceiling is an Internet of Things (IoT)-based solution to connect building services in a single, converged IP network through leading-edge technologies.

PointGrab Named Home and Building Automation Innovation and Excellence Award Winner

The company offers an edge-analytics sensor for the home and building automation markets

June 1, 2016

PointGrab announced that Corporate LiveWire has selected the company as its Innovation and Excellence Award winner in Home and Building Automation. The award is sponsored by the International Business Innovation Association.

On Demand As AI workloads and high-density computing push traditional cooling methods to their limits, the data center industry is accelerating the adoption of next-generation HVAC technologies.

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