By cleaning and recycling the indoor air instead of constantly replacing it with outside air, enVerid’s HLR system decreases the outside air intake required to ventilate a building by 60-80 percent and also reduces peak HVAC capacity, resulting in up to 40 percent lower utility demand charges. Moreover, with HLR technology, buildings can invest in lower-capacity and less expensive HVAC systems and benefit from decreased maintenance costs and extended life of existing equipment.
Venstar® announced that it has signed an exclusive agreement with Insco Distributing Inc. of San Antonio, Texas, for the distribution of Venstar HVAC control products throughout Texas and Oklahoma City.
Honeywell announced a major energy management project with Coop Denmark, to help reduce energy consumption by 20 percent by 2020 and achieve mandated carbon reduction goals. Under the project, Honeywell will deploy its software-based energy management solution, Enacto™, and up to 20,000 new wireless Enacto submeters throughout the network of stores to provide the retailer with a unified view of energy use across all of its locations.
As a key component of its recently announced “next level of innovation in pumping solutions for enhanced building performance management,” Armstrong Fluid Technology has introduced Pump Manager.
According to a new market research report, "The Thermal Energy Storage Market, By Technology, Storage Material, Application, End-User, and Region - Global Forecast To 2022," published by MarketsandMarkets, the market is expected to grow from an estimated $3.67 billion in 2017 to $6.20 billion by 2022, registering a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11 percent from 2017 to 2022.
The Air Conditioning Contractors of America Educational Institute (ACCA-EI) Standards Task Team (STT) announces the release of an updated ANSI/ACCA 1 Manual D — 2016 (Residential Duct Systems).
One of the best ways to become familiar with the benefits of new technologies is to explore them in their full, real-world context. “Industrial Controls in Motion” does just that, providing several fully functional, real-world environments for discovering its latest advances in HVACR, pumping, process industry, and machinery applications.
Expectations for 2017 have become less optimistic, but the majority of industrial and commercial construction contractors still expect growth this year, according to the latest Associated Builders and Contractors Inc. (ABC) Construction Confidence Index (CCI). Although all three diffusion indices in the survey — profit margins, sales, and staffing levels —fell by more than five points, they remain well above the threshold of 50, which signals that construction activity will continue to be one of the few significant drivers of economic growth.
ACCA has announced the installation of its 2017-18 board of directors and officers. The board was installed at the IE3 Show, which took place in Nashville, Tennessee, March 20-22. The new officers officially took their positions at the Big Bang Party on Wednesday, March 22.
Thomas Watson, a former ASHRAE president and retired chief engineer at Daikin Applied, recently received the Institute of Refrigeration’s (IOR) J&E Hall Gold Medal Award for his ground-breaking work to improve the efficiency of chillers and industrial heat pumps.