ANSYS, a global innovator of simulation software and technologies
designed to optimize product development processes, recently announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Fluent, Inc., a global provider of computer-aided engineering (CAE) simulation software.
Ward Manufacturing, Inc. has acquired the assets of Wisconsin Nipple and Fitting Corporation of Milwaukee. This purchase expands Ward's product offering of malleable pipe fittings and unions, cast-iron pipe fittings and WARDFLEX corrugated stainless steel tubing (CSST).
Richards-Zeta Building Intelligence, Inc., Panduit and Cisco Systems,
Inc., were collectively represented at the Building Intelligence Tour
(BIT) as joint co-sponsors of the educational seminar at a Platinum level.
Munters Dehumidification Division - Industrial has introduced
PowerPurgeTM, an energy recovery option for Munters Integrated Custom Air Handling (ICA) units.
Desert Aire recently announced that it is partnering with fellow HVAC
company MSP(r) Technology to build energy efficient dehumidifiers for the big box and natatorium markets.
Today, engineers, acting on the behalf of building owners, have a variety of choices when selecting hydronic heating boilers for their facilities. Choices for boilers include sectional cast iron; steel tube boilers, either firetube or watertube; copper finned-tube boilers; and condensing boilers. All of these various design types are used in projects today.
The first thing students attending the new Twenhofel Middle School in Independence, KY, do when they arrive at school each day is watch TV. But the programming broadcast on the 42-in. plasma screen TV at the school's main entrance lobby isn't be the usual teenage fare. In-stead, students eagerly interact with a touchscreen menu to call up "Vital Signs" screens to see which grade is winning the ongoing monthly energy conservation contest. Or they might monitor the effects the previous night's rainfall had on replenishing the school's rainwater collection system. Or they might call up a "Vital Signs" screen that shows the dollar savings in energy and the pounds of power plant CO2 emissions that the school has saved through its innovative daylighting and solar PV systems.
Cisco Systems, Panduit, and Richards-Zeta a partnership, (CPRZ) announced that the AHR Expo 2006 in Chicago was a great success, drawing many people in to see a fully integrated virtual building system up close and functional, using the globally accepted IP and XML data standards to link Voice over IP (VoIP) Telephones, Card Access, and BAS controls together.
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