Latest Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) News

Temperature Controller Prevents Equipment Overheating

April 26, 2013 by Linda Hardesty

Oven Industries, which supplies custom temperature controllers and sensors for a variety of corporate clients – aerospace, automotive, biomedical, and semiconductor – says its 5R7-001 temperature controller helps transition between heating and cooling devices and serves as the commander of thermoelectric modules. With the included PC software, users can control ... Read more »

Data Center Managers Increasingly Worried Over Heat Density

April 25, 2013 by Leon Walker

Heat density is once again becoming a top-of-mind issue for data center managers, according to a spring survey of data center users from Emerson Network Power. The spring installment of the biannual survey, sponsored by Emerson Network Power, polled members of the Data Center Users’ Group, an association of influential ... Read more »

New Jersey School Cuts Energy Use 52%, Wins EPA’s Building Competition

April 24, 2013August 2, 2019 by Linda Hardesty

Demarest Elementary School in Bloomfield, NJ, has won the Environmental Protection Agency’s third-annual Energy Star National Building Competition. More than 3,000 schools, businesses, and government buildings across the country competed to see which could reduce its energy use the most in one year. Demarest Elementary School won the EPA’s 2012 ... Read more »

Berkeley Lab Reveals A/C Efficiency Shortfall

April 22, 2013 by Leon Walker

Deploying super-efficient air conditioners across 17 countries and political blocs could avoid the need for more than 120 medium-sized power plants each generating around 500 MW of power, according to research by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Navigant Consulting Inc. Europe. Cooling the Planet: Opportunities for Deployment of Superefficient Room Air Conditioners was conducted ... Read more »

NRDC: Indian Office Building Retrofit is Exemplar

April 22, 2013August 2, 2019 by Leon Walker

A retrofit of the iconic Godrej Bhavan office building in South Mumbai that cut its electricity costs by 28 percent shows that such projects are practical and profitable in India’s rapidly transforming building stock, according to the National Resources Defense Council. As described in the case study, Saving Money and Energy: ... Read more »

BOMA: Top 10 Efficiency Tactics for Commercial Buildings

April 19, 2013August 2, 2019 by Linda Hardesty

The Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International has issued a list of top-10 ways commercial real estate professionals can make energy efficiency and sustainability a priority, as follows: Measure and Manage. Benchmark energy and water consumption through Energy Star Portfolio Manager. Audit Yourself. Perform regular energy audits to identify ... Read more »

Software Saving Microsoft “Millions” in Energy

April 19, 2013August 2, 2019 by Leon Walker

A small team of engineers at Microsoft have invented a data-driven software solution that is slashing operating costs at the company’s 500-acre headquarters campus in Redmond, Wash., and has avoided a $60 million capital investment in energy efficiency in the process, according to the tech giant. The team, led by director of facilities ... Read more »

Coolerado Units Help Data Center Cut Energy Use by 70%

April 19, 2013 by Leon Walker

The National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado cut its overall data center power consumption by 70 percent utilizing Coolerado air conditioners last year, the air conditioning company has announced. That equates to an absolute reduction of 491 MWh in the last 12 months. The NSIDC also reduced building-wide power consumption by 25 ... Read more »

Johnson Controls: See What’s Possible in Building Efficiency

April 15, 2013 by Linda Hardesty

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Aiming for Net Zero Energy Building Design

April 11, 2013August 2, 2019 by Linda Hardesty

Net Zero Will Be a Baseline for Building Design

Data Center Efficiency ‘Behind’ Security in Expansion Criteria

April 8, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Some 98 percent of large corporations are planning to expand their data centers in 2013 or 2014, but just 14 percent of those named energy efficiency as the single most important factor influencing their expansion plan, according to research by Digital Realty Trust. Security was named as the most influential reason ... Read more »

Net Zero Facility Uses Solar, Geothermal

April 3, 2013 by Linda Hardesty

In Tallahassee, Fla., the Leon County Cooperative Extension Building was transformed into a net-zero facility in March 2012 with the addition of solar power and a geothermal heating and air system. One year after its retrofit, data shows the 50-year-old building at 615 Paul Russell Road, also known as the ... Read more »

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