The Building Performance Institute Inc. (BPI) is seeking applications from individuals interested in serving on its Standards Technical Committees (STCs). BPI continually reviews and updates technical standards used by the residential energy upgrade industry to encourage adoption of industry best practices.

FMI Corp., a leading provider of management consulting, investment banking, and leader development services to the engineering and construction (E&C) industry, and Results Canada, an advisor to Canadian emerging growth firms, have announced the launch of FMI Results.

Angie’s List has announced the launch of LeadFeed, a product designed to capture demand from its free online visitors and turn that demand into leads for service providers.

During the prolonged housing downturn, green homes provided support to the ailing residential market and now promise to be an important element of the recovering market as well, according to a new study conducted by Dodge Data & Analytics. 

Daintree Networks Inc. won both customer project and product honors, taking home four awards in all, at the 2015 Golden Bridge Awards. More than 40 judges from a broad spectrum of industries from around the globe determined the winners from competitors including public and private firms, for-profits and non-profits, and start-ups.

Kooltronic Inc. announced that its Hazardous Location (HL) Series line of air conditioners has been granted a patent by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (U.S. Patent No. 9,157,670 B2).

Direct Energy, one of North America’s largest energy and energy-related services companies, through its parent company Centrica, has agreed to acquire Panoramic Power, a leading provider of device-level energy management solutions, for $60 million.

Heat was the focus of two ASHRAE student competitions. The 2015 Design Competition focused on a three-story classroom and office building in Doha, Qatar, while for the Applied Engineering Challenge, students were required to design a collapsible portable conditioned shelter for treatment of heat illness victims.

A new report, “Global Construction 2030,” forecasts that the volume of construction output will grow by 85 percent to $15.5 trillion worldwide by 2030, with three countries — China, the U.S., and India — leading the way and accounting for 57 percent of all global growth.