The first thing students attending the new Twenhofel Middle School in Independence, KY, do when they arrive at school each day is watch TV. But the programming broadcast on the 42-in. plasma screen TV at the school's main entrance lobby isn't be the usual teenage fare. In-stead, students eagerly interact with a touchscreen menu to call up "Vital Signs" screens to see which grade is winning the ongoing monthly energy conservation contest. Or they might monitor the effects the previous night's rainfall had on replenishing the school's rainwater collection system. Or they might call up a "Vital Signs" screen that shows the dollar savings in energy and the pounds of power plant CO2 emissions that the school has saved through its innovative daylighting and solar PV systems.
Cisco Systems, Panduit, and Richards-Zeta a partnership, (CPRZ) announced that the AHR Expo 2006 in Chicago was a great success, drawing many people in to see a fully integrated virtual building system up close and functional, using the globally accepted IP and XML data standards to link Voice over IP (VoIP) Telephones, Card Access, and BAS controls together.
Minneapolis-based MAMAC Systems, a global manufacturer of industrial and commercial sensors and control peripherals, announced the purchase of West Virginia-based Redpoint Controls, a company dedicated to embedded Ethernet-based, Web-enabling products.
Desert Aire recently announced that it is partnering with fellow HVAC company MSP® Technology to build energy efficient dehumidifiers for the big box and natatorium markets.
LONMARK Americas published a Facility Automation System Master Specification designed to help consultants write specifications for LonMark® Open Systems. It is available for download free at www.lonmarkamericas.org.
For Marvin Richer of Brock Equipment, it was clear they were "throwing good money after bad" by continually spending time and money on their old, deteriorating galvanized metal-lined cooling tower that supports the facil-ity's HVAC equipment installed in 1950.
Carrier Corporation recently donated two high-efficiency rooftop A/C units to Western Carolina University's (Cullowhee, NC) Construction Management Program as classroom teaching aids.
Southern California is known for both its sun-drenched beaches and businesses that help champion the environment by adopting the latest innovations. In keeping with that philosophy, a major food processor recently switched its large hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC) R-22 refrigeration system over to Honeywell Genetron® AZ-50® R-507. The retrofit was one of the largest of its kind and required more than 27,000 lb of Honeywell's product.
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