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Combining high air-recirculation rates and energy-intensive processes, cleanrooms are 20 to 100 times as costly to operate on a per-square-foot basis as conventional commercial buildings. Additionally, they operate 24 hr [...]

At first glance, energy evaluations for existing HVAC systems seem to be a nebulous and sometimes confusing service. On one extreme, one could argue an appropriate work scope should include [...]

Maintenance management is critical to the economic success of modern power plant operation. In some instances, the maintenance budget can represent up to 30 percent of all operational expenditures. With [...]

Something strange is happening in Times Square, something even stranger than Disney moving into an area once famous for peep shows and hardcore Triple-X movies. In a district where an [...]

How the emulator was developed, how its proper performance was verified, and how it can be used to evaluate control products Manufacturers of energy management and control systems (EMCS) have [...]

With all the attention and exposure given to the introduction of the latest portable electronic devices, it is easy to overlook the strides and advances being made in the power [...]

JOHN J. 'JACK' MCGOWAN, CEM Peter Drucker, the management guru, once said, 'The only function of a business is to create customer value and to innovate.' For more than three [...]

Orlando, Fla.--As a gateway to Florida tourism, Orlando International Airport is a high-volume facility that must present comfort and esthetic appeal to Orlando's many arriving vacationers. While comfort is paramount, [...]

WEST BEND, Wisc. -- According to an objective scientific study conclusively linking the comfort of building occupants with job performance, the productivity of employees of the West Bend Mutual Insurance [...]

EUGENE, Ore.- With the help of Brown and Caldwell and the Boneville Power Administration (BPA); Taco Time International Inc. here has enhanced the energy efficiency of its prototype building design [...]

More companies are outsourcing their non-core activities to enable them to focus on the main elements of their business, says Clare Veall. But as well as facilities management and catering, [...]

NEW YORK--Federal and international groups, including the United Nations, American Red Cross, and U.S. Postal Service expect to save more than $1 million in energy costs over the next twelve [...]

Facilities managers must now be information managers, too Current trends in automation require the facility manager to think outside the confines of the building envelope. The old controls industry has [...]

The so-called 'limitations' of rechargeable batteries have given rise to industries hoping to either replace batteries altogether, or augment them to increase their energy or power density. Portable devices and [...]

LITTLETON, Colo. - Last June, construction was completed on a new 70,000-square-foot Federal Express Corp. distribution center here that uses transpired solar collector panels to provide no-cost heating to the [...]

Cupertino, Calif.--Using a programmable controller-based building automation system, Hewlett-Packard has succeeded in substantially reducing energy costs by improving the efficiency and reliability of HVAC at its computer development complex. Hewlett-Packard's [...]

MUNCIE, Ind. - Using funding from its maintenance budget, this month Ball State University here will complete lighting retrofits in service tunnels and a library that are expected to pay [...]

ARLINGTON, Va.--Aging buildings, shrinking maintenance budgets, inadequate mechanical systems, and increasing energy rates have contributed to deteriorating indoor environments and skyrocketing utility bills for the nation's public schools, but not [...]

HOW GREEN IS YOUR WASHING MACHINE? * Wait until you have a full wash load of soiled linen before you wash. Whether you wash one t-shirt or a full load, [...]

LA JOLLAM Calif. -- When a hospital and research complex here realized a payback of less than one year on a $114,000 fully-distributed energy management system, it decided to expand [...]

ST. LOUIS--As users become more knowlegeable about their needs and more sophisticated in their familiarity with available technology, there is a temptation when writing EMS bid specifications to overspecify ancillary [...]

AWARD WINNER-NEW CONSTRUCTION: Cisco Systems, Inc. Teamwork and partnering are the main ingredients for energy-savvy new construction SAN JOSE, CALIF.--Using equal parts capital investment criteria, energy strategy, and innovative building [...]

AWARD WINNER-ENERGY TEAM OF THE YEAR: Cisco Systems, Inc. 'Energy team of the year' is a cut above the rest SAN JOSE, CALIF.- Due to enormous success and subsequent growth, [...]

Engineering, the environment, economics, and emissions are converging at what may soon become the new bottom line of building energy systems. Acid rain began the convergence in 1990 when the [...]

PORTLAND, Ore. - After five years of testing various reflector, lamp, and ballast combinations for energy efficiency, and power color rendition and power quality, building management at the World Trade [...]

LITTLE ROCK, Art. -- The Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. is installing a total of about 300 direct digital control (DDC) energy management systems, manufactured by Atlantic Energy Technologies (AET), Hingham, [...]

ROCKLAND, Mass.--Angelo's Supermarkets, a 19-store chain in the Southeast Massachusetts area, has achieved 10 to 15 percent energy savings and a reduction in food spoilage with a facility management system [...]

BELL GARDENS, Calif.--A contractor here has devised a simple method of reducing demand at a meat packing plant by putting the product itself to work as a thermal storage medium. [...]

NEW YORK--With the growing number of fully-distributed energy management systems--which do not use a central processing unit at all--users are beginning to tie the intelligent field interface devices (FIDs) into [...]

Diesel System to Cut Costs At Texas Waste Plant PALESTINE, Texas--The city government here plans to save about 60 percent in energy costs by using a 78 hp diesel-driven aeration [...]

SAN FRANCISCO--By disconnecting the air conditioning circuits from the override controls of two recently installed energy management systems, a contractor here solved a savings shortfall that resulted from employee overrides [...]

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. -- An energy management contractor has resuscitated non-functioning energy management systems at seven McDonald's restaurants after the systems were abandoned by the original contractors. The units are now [...]