As COVID-19 and its physical and economic impacts reshape industries, facility managers and building operators are looking at how to most efficiently run existing commercial and industrial spaces that may be used very differently in the future. 

The state-of-the-art facility houses IAPMO R&T’s Oceana research center and product testing laboratory.

pme recently had the chance to catch up with industry veteran Mark Chaffee, the vice president of governmental relations and sustainability at Cranston, Rhode Island-based Taco Comfort Solutions. 

Upfront costs and energy consumption are primary drivers when selecting a commercial HVAC system in new and retrofit projects. 

Heating, cooling, chiller, water pressure boosting, fire safety and wastewater systems in commercial buildings may in-corporate pumps that consume more than 35% of the building’s energy. 

Imagine if every building in an urban neighborhood has a gasoline-powered generator running to produce electricity in-stead of relying on an electrical grid from the local utility company.

Taco Comfort Solutions expands its family of easy-to-use high-efficiency ECM circulators with the addition of the 0034e and 0034ePlus models. 

When Pine Valley Ranch, a Spencerville, Ohio-based egg-breaking facility, was looking for an energy efficient way to wash 600 cases of eggs an hour, they turned to Consolidated Hunter, a local heating con-tractor, and Pickrel Brothers, a leading provider of industrial heating supplies to help present options. 

HI launched its Energy Rating Program in 2018 to make it easy for manufacturers and distributors to communicate energy efficiency, support power utilities in the development and operation of energy efficiency programs and help end users identify pumps that offer energy and cost-saving benefits.