John Siegenthaler
will be presenting "State of the Art Hydronic Design for the Solar Thermal
Professional," an all-day seminar on Friday, Feb. 19, 2010, at the
Colorado Solar Energy Industries Association's (CoSeIA) Annual Conference &
Expo.
Standard 189.1, Standard for
the Design of High-Performance, Green Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential
Buildings, is the first code-intended commercial green building standard in the
United States.
ASHRAE will host its High Performance K-12
School Facilities conference on Mar. 1-2 in Atlanta, which will center on maximizing
facility performance, and possibly even students’ potential.
Tim Smith,
formerly a partner at Metro Design, has created Engineered Building
Solutions/LLC, a new company dedicated to providing plumbing and aquatics
services.
The No Lead line, denoted by option “-CA,”
contains less than 0.25 percent lead. Speakman
also has converted many of its popular sensor faucets to lead-free.
It was never the intent to negate the thermal shock
protection that the 1016-1996 standard had provided the user/bather. Because of this
issue, additional standards were developed.
Construction
employment fell by 53,500 (-0.9 percent), accounting for more than 60 percent
of total losses for December 2009, and by 934,000 (14 percent) for the year.
Jacksonville, FL-based Barnet has added more than 100 models of Kohler faucets, toilets, urinals, and lavatories in its distribution centers across the country.