Tecumseh Products Co. and Torad Engineering announced that they have entered into a joint development and licensing agreement to use Torad’s patented spool compressor technology in commercial refrigeration applications. The companies said initial development work has already begun.
While owners of commercial buildings have been looking to improve energy efficiency for quite some time, the market for building energy management systems is still emerging. According to a report from Pike Research, many of the companies in this growing market are now turning to utilities as a market channel for their products and services.
The Air Conditioning Contractors of America’s (ACCA’s) Building Performance Council (BPC) has announced that registration is now open for its first Building Performance Forum. The event is scheduled for Oct. 9-10, 2012, at the Sheraton Austin Hotel at the Capitol in Austin, Texas.
Gov. Steve Beshear of Kentucky joined community and company officials in Leitchfield to announce that New York Blower Co. will locate a new manufacturing facility in Grayson County, creating 125 new, full-time jobs.
A collection of honorees have been named in The NEWS’ 2012 ninth annual Dealer Design Awards program. Each gold, silver, and bronze winning product is featured in the pages of this issue and will be added to the pages of HVACR history as Dealer Design winners.
The U.S. Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce has announced that construction spending during May 2012 was estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $830 billion, 0.9 percent above the revised April estimate of $822.5 billion. The May 2012 figure is 7 percent above the May 2011 estimate of $775.8 billion.
Aggressive energy efficiency goals within the building stock will drive revolutionary change in building automation systems (BAS) technology and transform the building industry over the next decade, according to a report from Pike Research.
DuPont Refrigerants announced on June 11 that it had completed a five-year effort to achieve shutdown of a suspected trader of counterfeit refrigerants in the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.).
In May, millions of people across the country began to see new TV and online ads from Mitsubishi Electric Cooling & Heating that feature actor and comedian Jerry Stiller.
Building Performance Institute Inc. (BPI) has extended its application deadline for candidates wishing to take BPI’s pilot Home Energy Professional (HEP) certification exams.