Ohio’s Summa Health System is undergoing a $4.2 million building infrastructure upgrade to reduce operating costs and improve patient and staff comfort. Summa plans to accomplish these improvements with no capital outlay. It financed the one-year boiler and lighting system upgrade through a performance contract arrangement with Siemens Building Technologies Inc.
The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) posts regular announcements at its Web site (www.license.state.tx.us/index.html) involving illegal air conditioning contractors.
The city of Pasadena, Texas, voted on March 4 to adopt NFPA 5000™, Building Construction and Safety Code™, which will become effective 90 days from that date.
Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) presented its Contractor of the Year award to Mark Small, senior vice president and chief financial officer, Cleveland Construction Inc., Mentor, Ohio, at the association’s national convention in San Diego.
The St. Louis and Southern Illinois Chapters of the Air Conditioning Contractors of America (ACCA) are hosting a conference and trade expo on Wednesday, March 26, 2003. Keynote speaker will be John R. Hall, business management editor for The News.
In a recent article in The Dallas Morning News, it was reported that hundreds of Texans, who were defrauded by a now out-of-business heating and cooling contractor, will be eligible for free equipment inspections, repair, and contract renegotiations.
With the tremendous heat load produced by broadcast operations servers and associated high-tech equipment at the corporate headquarters of Scripps Networks in Knoxville, Tenn., mechanical engineer Greg Farmer needed a reliable means to cool and dehumidify the space.