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Balfour Beatty Construction has been selected to design and construct a new $100.5 million addition to the Kern County Justice Facility in Bakersfield, California. The project is expected to create 350-400 jobs for the local community, including a contractual target goal to subcontract 25 percent of design and construction services to local businesses.

RTH Mechanical Contractors Inc., a veteran-owned mechanical and general contractor from Brentwood, New Hampshire, has been named Subcontractor of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). The company was selected from among 10 regional subcontractors of the year.

The global residential energy management market was an estimated $2.86 billion in 2014 and is forecast to reach $15.6 billion by 2019, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40.4 percent between 2014 and 2019, according to a new market research report published by MarketsandMarkets.

The Oil and Energy Service Professionals (OESP) and the Atlantic Region Energy Expo (AREE) have announced they will host a joint trade show and convention May 22-26, 2016 at the Foxwoods Casino Resort, Ledyard, Connecticut.

Franklin Energy Services LLC, a leading national energy efficiency program implementation firm, has announced the 2015 recipients of its first annual Energy Efficiency Experts of Tomorrow scholarship program.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reference case projections in its Annual Energy Outlook 2015, domestic energy consumption is expected to grow at a modest 0.3 percent per year through 2040, less than half the rate of population growth.

SOLEC-Solar Energy Corp. has announced a new working agreement with Standard Supply & Distributing Co. (SS&D) to distribute its LO/MIT spray-applied radiant heat barrier in Texas. SS&D, which serves the HVAC and insulation marketplace, covers a number of cities across the state of Texas.

SolarWorld announced that it has provided 1.6 megawatts of 315-watt, 72-cell monocrystalline solar panels for a project to power the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) George Washington Carver Center. The ground-mount system is believed to be the largest solar power system in the Washington, District of Columbia, area.

If 30 percent of hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerants are reclaimed for reuse by 2040, approximately 18 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent would be prevented from reaching the atmosphere over the next 25 years, according to a white paper released by EOS Climate.

The Air Movement and Control Association (AMCA) International and Centre Technique des Industries Aérauliques et Thermiques (CETIAT) announced the joint signing of an independent accredited laboratory agreement.