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There are some building types and/or organizations that are nearly always undergoing some sort of facility upgrade, modification, and/or expansion to accommodate evolving needs.

Reliable Controls Corporation announced the appointment of Thomas Leslie Zaban, P.Eng, LEED Green Associate, to the office of president for the headquarters and worldwide operations of the company.

Last month, we discussed having a mid-year sales strategy or course correction. I suggested one should start to plant the seeds to provide a better product at a better price from a team rather than simply sell commodity products to HVAC contractors.

Acxiom is a database marketing company with locations across the globe, and like many of today’s data center operators, the company faced an increasingly common dilemma: the need to upgrade existing power infrastructure within critical facilities without halting operations.

Carrier recently invited its channel partners and Controls Expert contractors to participate in the Carrier Controls Expert Expo in Orlando, Florida.

EcoFactor Inc.'s energy intelligence software has been acquired by Trane's Residential HVAC business.

Mitsubishi Electric Automation Inc. (MEAU) has named Scott Summerville as its new president.

Engineering departments in today’s health care environment are tasked with an ever-growing list of responsibilities, such as emergency readiness, PMs, reactive maintenance, ensuring regulatory compliance, managing infection control, maintaining life cycle budgets, managing utility spend, and the list goes on.

I was at a conference at the end of April, and we were discussing new ways to deliver customer outcomes utilizing technology. The topic then shifted to how to utilize technologies that are primarily operational in nature in a capital project.

This is a story about two new construction commissioning projects with similar challenges and as-yet unwritten endings.