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With today’s technology, it’s possible for a high-performance building to integrate and optimize all its major functions while also ensuring energy efficiency and comfort. Yet, while opportunities abound for HVAC contractors in this niche, many say there are still barriers restricting the growth of high-performance buildings.

The goal of a high-performance building is to optimize its performance and energy use at all times, in all conditions. And, trends in smart controls and system integration are making this goal more achievable than ever before.

Schneider Electric, a specialist in energy management, and Autodesk Inc., a leader in 3D design and engineering, have announced an agreement to collaborate to enhance current practices for building lifecycle management based on building information modeling (BIM).

Representing all major segments of the HVACR marketplace, the winning entries were honored in 10 categories as the most innovative new products among the thousands that will be displayed at the Jan. 26-28 event in Chicago. 

Considered to be the premier event in the HVACR industry, the AHR Expo is the place where contractors, engineers, and other building professionals meet to learn about new products.

The EcoWave™ occupancy-based wireless unitary HVAC controller provides the balance of energy efficiency and occupant comfort in fan coils, heat pumps, packaged terminal air conditioners (PTACs), and other unitary equipment used in spaces with unpredictable occupancy.

The customers at Control Services Inc. practically make up the Omaha, Nebraska, skyline, offering indisputable proof that, over the last four decades, the company has helped shape its hometown.

GridPoint, a supplier of data-driven energy management systems (EMS), announced that TOMS King LLC, a northern Illinois-based Burger King® franchisee, has deployed GridPoint’s energy management solution at all 59 TOMS King restaurants after a successful six-site pilot.

The devices and systems that control a building’s HVAC, lighting, and security were, until fairly recently, rudimentary, says Navigant Research. Today, commercial building automation systems (BASs) are increasingly embedded with computing and digital communications tools that have transformed their capabilities.

The Aurora UPC seamlessly communicates with Aurora boards and converts the Modbus protocol to BACnet MS/TP, LON, or OpenN2 protocol.