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All The News That Didn’t Quite Fit

May 2, 2012

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Contest, keynotes, and the USGBC daring to go where no LEED has gone before.

Boiler Rules: A Slow Simmer

The prolonged MACT process has hardly been a simple recipe.

February 1, 2012

By Robert Beverly

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With our next Today’s Boiler scheduled for May, I don’t want to wait that long to keep you apprised on the latest in the ongoing saga of finalizing and implementing new boiler regulations. Even last month’s ABMA meeting is not the latest, but ABMA president Randy Rawson has sent his members (including ES) a good summary of the present situation. So with thanks to him, I am providing an excerpt of his update below. If you have trouble keeping up, don’t feel bad.

New Year, New Thinking

January 13, 2012

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How can the conventional wisdom get a little wiser?

Cracking Codes

Of codes, compliance, and thorny web addresses.

November 1, 2011

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We’ve been burning the candle at both ends this month to give you a worthwhile answer to the question you might have asked yourself recently if you’ve told us that you specify, design, or purchase boilers: “What’s this other magazine with the ES in this plastic bag”?

ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT

That’s what we discussed, and sat in, at HPB.

October 11, 2011

By Robert Beverly

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The timing was perfect. First morning, first keynote, Dr. Jim Freihaut of the Greater Philadelphia Innovation Cluster for Energy-Efficient Buildings, has been talking to our High-Performance Buildings conference about the great work going on at the renewed Philadelphia Navy Yard. But now he’s also lamenting the state of facility O&M staff.

Editor’s Note: Parts is Parts

But this new lab helps them work more like “one big part.”

September 6, 2011

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As I read the press release, something about the DOE’s planned user test bed facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab reminded me of the old Wendy’s commercial from the ’80s that most of you are, uh, mature enough to recall.

Editor's Note: August Additions

August 1, 2011

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New digital- and analog-world projects spice up the summer, and an axeman keeps our advisory board sharp.

Editor's Note: Rip Out This Page

June 1, 2011

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(And send it to your marketing director.)

Editor's Note: Facebook Follow-Up

May 1, 2011

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Increasing energy awareness as it relates to the server farm can be a hard row to hoe.

Editor's Note: Aftershocks: Don't Be Swayed

March 1, 2011

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How to turn disaster into awareness into a difference the next time?

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