According to DOE, the Building Energy Codes Program has saved more than $44 billion in the 20 years since its implementation. The report also estimates that by 2040 it will have helped building owners save up to $230 billion in utility bills and 3.995 million tons in carbon savings.
Could they be the cause of your mechanical malfunctions?
April 27, 2014
Our daughter Kelly and her husband, Craig, wanted to give our grandchildren names that would never appear on a souvenir rack in a touristy store, so they named our grandson Sullivan “Sully” Daniel and our granddaughter Dempsey Jane.
I was lucky to have had as one of my teachers the late, great Gil Carlson. He was Bell & Gossett’s director of technical services and when he would come to New York City to speak at an ASHRAE event, my old boss would ask me to sit with Gil and keep him company during the day.
If you look deeper you’ll see that with each passing year the gap of nonbelievers shrinks.
March 28, 2014
This time last month, I was hammering away on my February editorial and simultaneously listening to President Obama’s sixth State of the Union address to Congress and the nation. I kept the YouTube stream of the speech in a tiny video player in the lower-right hand corner of my screen.
Commercial building loans and their supporting activity are edging toward pre-recession levels. As of mid-year 2013, U.S. banks had issued just short of $1 trillion dollars in commercial real-estate loans, up almost 4% from a year earlier, according to official sources.
This spring, IAPMO starts the final round of meetings leading up to the publication of the 2015 Uniform Plumbing Code (UPC). The meeting was recently moved from St. Louis to Las Vegas, but the dates remain the same (April 28-30). Those dates are coincidently the same dates as the International Code Council’s Green Code hearings in Memphis, Tenn.