Articles Tagged with ''energy management''

Building Energy Inc., a provider of cloud-hosted solutions for managing energy efficiency in buildings, announced that it has secured $300,000 in growth funding from Seattle-based Lighter Capital.

Little kids aren’t the only ones who think like this. People not of this trade often think in a different way than we do. And, sometimes, they even think in a better way.

Themed “Changes: Turn and Face the Strange,” the issue surveys a broad array of strategic issues.

The Geothermal Exchange Organization is backing efforts in a number of states to change public policies that currently fail to recognize geothermal heat pumps as a renewable source of energy and an efficient way to satisfy the thermal loads of buildings.

The DOE’s proposed rule represents a significant increase in efficiency that would effectively eliminate noncondensing furnaces and significantly impact the design, installation, and cost of nonweatherized furnaces. 

The development of biomass requirements is being explored by ASHRAE, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), and the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES), for inclusion in their co-sponsored green building standard.

The newly renovated wing of the Finger Lakes Technical & Career Center includes offices and conference rooms, which are now being conditioned using variable refrigerant flow (VRF) technology and ventilation air supplied by three Systemair AB Topvex energy recovery ventilators (ERVs).

Several market trends, including growing awareness of the Internet of Things (IoT) and rising demand for data-driven decision support tools, are accelerating adoption of building energy management systems (BEMS), notes Navigant Research.

The following five projects demonstrate how contractors are working closely with customers to provide personalized, effective, and efficient IAQ solutions.

Total delivered-to-site energy use by the federal government fell to 0.96 quadrillion Btu in fiscal year (FY) 2013, the lowest recorded since 1975.