Japan-based vendors including Panasonic have launched HEMS (home energy management systems) but sales have faced two main problems: appliances offered by different vendors are not inter-compatible and real estate developers are leading the ...
Tags: Lights, Lighting, Smart Housing
Alfa Laval – a world leader in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling – has won an order to supply compact heat exchangers for the caustic evaporation plant of AkzoNobel in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The ...
Turkey continues to take steps toward increasing its own security of supply, as energy use is expected to double by 2023, triggering a requirement for around 100 GW of capacity, although market participants said the current "crisis" in the ...
Tags: Gas Market, Gas plant
The Asia to Europe arbitrage window for methanol will remain shut in the third quarter of 2014 on expectations of higher export volumes from the Middle East and stronger Chinese demand that would soak up Asian supplies, sources said late ...
Tags: Methanol, natural gas
The rapid development of lighting technologies, particularly solid-state systems using light emitting diodes (LEDs), has opened a universe of new possibilities as well as new questions about roadway lighting in the U.S., which for decades ...
The Valspar Corporation launched Valspar Valde Extreme Flex Cure (EFC) powder coating technology designed with proprietary resin technology to deliver full performance with faster cure rates at a much lower temperature compared to ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Coating
Canada stands as the largest international market for LEED green buildings and boasts more square meters of LEED-certified space than any other nation outside the United States, according to a new report released today by the U.S. Green ...
Tags: LEED activity, LEED
AkzoNobel Specialty Finishes has launched a breakthrough soft touch technology. Known as DuraSilk UV, the soft-feel coating solves a long-standing stain resistance issue associated with soft feel coatings, which has so far restricted the ...
Tags: breakthrough soft touch technology, Electrical, Electronics
Lucid, the Center for Green Schools at the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), the National Wildlife Federation and the Alliance to Save Energy announce that more than 265,000 students at 109 colleges and universities across the U.S. and ...
Tags: Green Building, energy consumption
PPG Industries has launched an online tool that enables architects and specifiers to model energy costs for a statistically representative 12-story building constructed with selected PPG architectural glazings to optimize daylighting, heat ...
Tags: PPG, Energy Modeling
Kohl's Department Stores will be recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a recipient of the 2014 ENERGY STARPartner of the Year – Sustained Excellence Award for the company's continued leadership in protecting ...
Tags: Apparel
Inspired by the Los Angeles street lighting upgrade, where many of the city's 140,000 high-pressure sodium (HPS) street lights were converted to Cree LED luminaires, San Luis Obispo in California has selected LED chip, lamp and lighting ...
Tags: LED street light, LED, Lighting, Lights
PPG Industries' will introduce POWERCRON EPIC electrocoats and four PPG scientists will present technical papers and participate in panel discussions and workshops at ECOAT14, the biennial conference of The Electrocoat Association, April ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
According to the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), 3 billion square feet of green construction space has earned LEED certification around the globe. "This milestone is the result of leaders across our industry making the business and ...
Tags: Certification, Construction, LEED
Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that an elementary school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has won the annual Energy Star National Building Competition: Battle of the Buildings. Teams from more than 3,000 buildings ...
Tags: Service, EPA, Certification