“Those old multizone systems were state-of-the-art 30 years ago,” said Dale Moody, a Climate Engineering mechanical technician. “But technology and time have passed them by, so they’re expensive to operate and maintain today.”
A construction team which included the Murphy Co. has received the 2001 Design Build Institute of America (DBIA) Award of Excellence for its University of Colorado Hospital Anschutz Outpatient Pavilion in Aurora, CO.
This Virginia county is leading by example when it comes to energy efficiency. It currently has five registered LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) projects underway, including the new Aurora Hills Complex.
First impressions are important, according to Ray Spreitzer of R&D Refrigeration. He says when service technicians arrive in a nice truck in clean uniforms, customers perceive them to be more professional.
The 90% AFUE Tempstar PS90 gas furnace is certified for use in single-pipe installations that draw combustion air from within the conditioned space, according to a statement from International Comfort Products (ICP), Lewisburg, TN.
Thermal bridging is a characteristic of some materials, such as steel studs, to transmit temperature differences through a wall assembly, short-circuiting the insulation that abuts it. The Consortium for Advanced Residential Buildings (CARB) uncovered such a thermal bridging problem in the design of Melrose Commons, a development of attached, three-family townhouses in the Bronx, New York.
After several decades in its Detroit location, the J.A. Marble Co. looked to a community a few miles west to find a bigger facility that brought it closer to many customers and opened the door to new business.
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