Rick Fedrizzi, president, CEO, and founding chairman of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), and Valentine Lehr, senior partner, Lehr Consultants International, will be keynote speakers at the opening plenary session for the 10th Global Engineering Conference sponsored by Carrier Corp.
Johnson Controls Inc. announced that four students of Carnegie Mellon University are the first-place winners in its open letter-writing competition - Tomorrow’s Energy Ambassadors, Managers, and Scholars (TEAMS). The students’ winning letter appeared as a full-page ad in USA Today.
Eighty-five years after creating its first chapter outside the United States, the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) has chartered its 170th chapter, based in Indonesia, continuing its goal to be a global leader in the HVACR community.
Denso announced that Mitsuo “Matt” Matsushita, president and CEO of Denso International America (Denso’s North American headquarters) and managing officer of Denso Corp., retired from Denso effective Dec. 31, 2007.
LonMark International announced the winners of its Best of the Year Awards at LonWorld 2007. The annual awards program received 34 nominations in the six different categories from companies around the world. The Best Multi-Vendor Project was awarded to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
ABB won a contract from Wise Alloys LLC to manage service activities and raise productivity at its Muscle Shoals, Ala., facility. It is the seventh ABB Full Service® agreement in North America. Under the five-year agreement, ABB will assume responsibility for all maintenance-related activities covering production equipment.
Industrial Controls Distributors LLC merged with Piedmont Instruments and Controls of Charlotte, N.C. Piedmont will integrate operations with Industrial Controls’ Charlotte operation to cover North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia.
COMPANY: A.O. Reed & Co., San Diego. INSTALLATION: An assortment of York® units. CUSTOMER: United States Postal Service. OBJECTIVE: Alleviate global warming threats by eliminating CFC-containing refrigerants in government facilities.
The Noland Co., a long-time Ruud distributor, has decided to
no longer represent the Ruud heating and cooling product line. As a result,
Ruud management has committed all necessary resources to ensuring a smooth
transition for Ruud dealers, and is working to put in place new Ruud distribution with full sales and service capabilities.
A
new, free, online database from the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating
and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) provides engineers with equipment
service life and annual maintenance costs for a variety of building types and
HVAC systems. It includes more than 300 building types and more than 38,000
pieces of equipment.
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