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2013.07.02

The Chinese cold chain logistics market is expanding fast

10/07/2013 In recent years in China, annual demand for cold chain logistics for the food industry rose to 100 million tons and annual growth has been over 8%. At the same time, construction of ...

2013.07.17

HVAC Firm Climate Partners Forms Alliance with Ross Solar Gr

Goal is to help homewners realize lower upfront investments and faster paybacks with better returns on investment. Jul. 15, 2013 Ross Solar Group of Danbury, CT today announced their strategic allianc...

2013.07.17

Landmark Beavis Marks tops out

15 July 2013 The 16-storey Bevis Marks building in London completed its topping out ceremony last Friday. The ceremony was attended by London’s deputy mayor for planning and chief of staff Sir ...

2013.07.16

Leading Edge Building Automation & Control Solutions to Be S

Westport, Connecticut July 15, 2013 HVACR professionals attending the 2014 AHR Expo, January 21-23 in New York City will have an unprecedented opportunity to be immersed in the latest building automat...

2013.07.16

Design Guide Published on District Cooling Systems

12 July 2013 Atlanta -- A newly published book from ASHRAE provides design guidance for all major aspects of district cooling systems. District Cooling Guide includes guidance on central chiller plants, chilled-water distribution systems, and consumer interconnection. District cooling systems are commonly used to serve applications like cities, educational campuses, major medical facilities...

2013.07.15

Paper Industry Can Cut Energy Consumption by 10%

July 9, 2013 Americans use 36.5 billion rolls of toilet paper every year, representing the pulping of some 15 million trees, 473,587,500,000 gallons of water and 253,000 tons of chlorine and about 17.3 terawatts of electricity annually. So per roll that’s 37 gallons of water, 1.3 KWh of electricity and some 1.5 pounds of wood. Currently, the paper industry accounts for 2.2% of the nation’s energy...

2013.07.14

Maintenance of Residential HVAC Systems Standard Out for Rev

Jul. 11, 2013 Arlington, Va. -- The Air Conditioning Contractors of America Educational Institute (ACCA-EI) Standards Task Team (STT) has announced an American National Standards Institute (ANSI) public review period for its BSR/ACCA 4 QM -201x, Maintenance of Residential HVAC Systems as a revised industry standard. The public review period has a comment deadline of Aug. 12, 2013. This revi...

2013.07.12

Meadowlands Racetrack Owners Expect Infrastructure Systems i

High-performance solutions from Trane more efficient than conventional systems East Rutherford, N.J., July 10, 2013 -- Owners at Meadowlands Racetrack expect the highly efficient Trane infrastructure systems selected for the new grandstand currently under construction to be up to 20 percent more efficient than conventional solutions. Trane is a leading global provider of indoor comfort solu...

2013.07.13

Advanced Energy Design Guides Hit Half-Million Circulation M

Jul 10, 2013 Contact: Jodi Scott Public Relations 678-539-1216 jscott@ashrae.org Atlanta -- Since being introduced eight years ago to encourage energy efficient design in a range of building types, t...

2013.07.12

UK apprentice is WorldSkills medalist

July 10, 2013 Germany: Canada’s Michael Scheideman and Korea’s Woo Yule Kim took the gold medals in the Refrigeration category of the WorldSkills competition that came to an end in Leipzig on Sunday. ...

2013.07.13

For Emerson, Focus on Cooling Expands into Thermal Managemen

By: Rich Miller July 10th, 2013 Cooling isn’t just about CRAC units anymore. For many years, data center cooling involved placing CRAC (computer room air conditioner) units at the perimeter of a data ...

2013.07.13

Third Conference on Sustainability and the Cold Chain comes

9 July 2013 The International Institute of Refrigeration’s International Conference on Sustainability and the Cold Chain will take place at St Mary’s University College, Twickenham next June. The Institute of Refrigeration is hosting the third in the series of conferences, which it says will attract an international audience of researchers and industrialists to the UK, and provide an opport...