Articles by Samantha Sine

The buildings of tomorrow are chock full of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and equipment that connect tenants, mechanical systems, and facility managers to up-to-the-minute data and progress reports.

According to a new market research report by marketsandmarkets.com, the home automation system market was valued at $39.93 billion in 2016 and is expected to reach $79.57 billion by 2022 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.3 percent during the forecast period.

Self-diagnostics are heralded for their ability to save contractors precious time and money and for their ability to communicate a problem before a homeowner even realizes there is one.

The Sierra Club, a grassroots environmental organization, announced it would be joining nonprofit public interest law organization, Earthjustice; the Consumer Federation of America; the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC); and a coalition of state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit against the Trump administration over the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) delays in issuing new energy-efficiency standards for ceiling fans, freezers, boilers, and commercial and consumer goods.

Lennox Intl. Inc.’s ComfortSense CS8500® Commercial Programmable Thermostat earned the gold award in the 2017 Dealer Design Awards’ commercial controls category.

Winning DDA gold for the components and accessories category is MarketAir Inc.’s LinePort models LPL-510 and LPS-55.

Per the DOE’s second annual “National Energy Employment Analysis,” a total of 6.4 million Americans now work in the traditional energy and energy-efficiency industries. More than 300,000 net new jobs were added in 2016, which accounted for 14 percent of the nation’s job growth.

Taking home the Gold Award in the High-Efficiency Residential category of the 2017 Dealer Design Awards is the York® Affinity™ unit from unitary products group, a division of Johnson Controls Inc.