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1. Innovations from the Industry Innovations from the Industry. As we proudly celebrate our two-year anniversary, we invite you to also celebrate the success stories of these participating manufacturing innovators.
2. Electrical and Power Study This 2013 study was conducted by Consulting-Specifying Engineer in April and May to evaluate customer awareness, usage of, and preference for suppliers of various types of electrical and power products and systems. Respondents indicated that they’d been involved for several years in specifying electrical and power systems; 66% said they’d spent 20 years or more in the industry. The sample was selected from recipients of Consulting-Specifying Engineer for whom e-mail addresses were available. Only respondents involved in the buying/specifying process for electrical and power products and services were asked topic-related questions. Subscribers were sent an e-mail asking them to participate in this study. The e-mail included a URL linked to the questionnaire.
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    Video: Window shades offer energy savings
    Mergers, Aquisitions Activity Among 2012 MEP Giants Video in which Morrissey Goodale reports on M&A activity among 2012 MEP Giants.
    Automation and Control: Beer fridge security system, with power and temperature monitoring
    Siemens talks energy efficiency/Smart Grid
    Gamewell-FCI talks life safety technology
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    Baldor at IMTS
    Yaskawa Booth Visit IMTS
    CSE visits with Engineering Students
    Westex Arc Flash Training Video
    Yaskawa Variable Frequency Drives
    ComEd Visit
    Video: Motor efficiency basics, Incremotion Learn about motor efficiencies and trade-offs within motor design, as explained by Dan Jones, president, Incremotion, in a brief tutorial video. Mark T. Hoske, CFE Media, and Control Engineering, asks a few questions. 3:02 minutes
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Industry News Consulting-Specifying Engineer’s engineering audience includes executive engineers, who represent building owners on new construction and renovation projects; designers, who engineer high-level MEP systems and operational strategies; specifiers, who research, select, and specify system equipment; and commissioning providers. Because all of these engineering professions work together on almost every new construction or renovation project for commercial, institutional, and industrial buildings, Consulting-Specifying Engineer is your strategic choice for getting specified and ultimately procured.
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  1. 2012 NEBB Annual Conference Presentations Professionals and experts from around the country met in April 2012 to discuss Building Systems Commissioning, Building Envelope Testing, Cleanroom Performance Testing, Fume Hood Testing, Retro-Commissioning, Sound and/or Vibration Measurement, and Testing, Adjusting, and Balancing of HVAC systems. PDF presentations from the National Environmental Balancing Bureau are available.
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  5. Educational Videos For this special anniversary meeting, you will hear from some of the nation’s leading experts about the broad range of commissioning services required in today’s environment. It is one of the most informative programs ever presented on Total Building Commissioning.
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1. Automation & Controls Building automation describes the functionality provided by the control system of a building. A building automation system (BAS) is an example of a distributed control system. The control system is a computerized, intelligent network of electronic devices, designed to monitor and control the mechanical and lighting systems in a building. BAS core functionality keeps the building climate within a specified range, provides lighting based on an occupancy schedule, and monitors system performance and device failures and provides email and/or text notifications to building engineering staff. The BAS functionality reduces building energy and maintenance costs when compared to a non-controlled building. A building controlled by a BAS is often referred to as an intelligent building system.
  1. Automation and Control News Building automation describes the functionality provided by the control system of a building. A building automation system (BAS) is an example of a distributed control system. The control system is a computerized, intelligent network of electronic devices, designed to monitor and control the mechanical and lighting systems in a building. BAS core functionality keeps the building climate within a specified range, provides lighting based on an occupancy schedule, and monitors system performance and device failures and provides email and/or text notifications to building engineering staff. The BAS functionality reduces building energy and maintenance costs when compared to a non-controlled building. A building controlled by a BAS is often referred to as an intelligent building system.
  2. Videos Videos about building automation systems. The control system is a computerized, intelligent network of electronic devices, designed to monitor and control the mechanical and lighting systems in a building. BAS core functionality keeps the building climate within a specified range, provides lighting based on an occupancy schedule, and monitors system performance and device failures and provides email and/or text notifications to building engineering staff. The BAS functionality reduces building energy and maintenance costs when compared to a non-controlled building. A building controlled by a BAS is often referred to as an intelligent building system.
  3. New Products Building automation and controls products that help to monitor and control the mechanical and lighting systems in a building. BAS core functionality keeps the building climate within a specified range, provides lighting based on an occupancy schedule, and monitors system performance and device failures and provides email and/or text notifications to building engineering staff. The BAS functionality reduces building energy and maintenance costs when compared to a non-controlled building. A building controlled by a BAS is often referred to as an intelligent building system.
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2. Codes & Standards Updates and news surrounding the constantly evolving building codes and standards for HVAC, fire, electrical, and plumbing systems. A building code, or building control, is a set of rules that specify the minimum acceptable level of safety for constructed objects such as buildings and nonbuilding structures. The main purpose of building codes are to protect public health, safety and general welfare as they relate to the construction and occupancy of buildings and structures. The building code becomes law of a particular jurisdiction when formally enacted by the appropriate authority. Building codes are generally intended to be applied by architects and engineers although this is not the case in the UK where Building Control Surveyors act as verifiers both in the public and private sector (Approved Inspectors), but are also used for various purposes by safety inspectors, environmental scientists, real estate developers, contractors and subcontractors, manufacturers of building products and materials, insurance companies, facility managers, tenants, and others.
3. Electrical Trends, product innovations, and code updates for engineers designing electrical and lighting systems for commercial, industrial, and institutional buildings. electrical network is an interconnection of electrical elements such as resistors, inductors, capacitors, transmission lines, voltage sources, current sources and switches. An electrical circuit is a special type of network, one that has a closed loop giving a return path for the current. Electrical networks that consist only of sources (voltage or current), linear lumped elements (resistors, capacitors, inductors), and linear distributed elements (transmission lines) can be analyzed by algebraic and transform methods to determine DC response, AC response, and transient response.
4. Fire & Life Safety Trends, product innovations, and code updates for engineers designing fire, security, and life-safety systems for commercial, industrial, and institutional buildings.
5. Green Buildings & Energy Efficiency Updates on the latest in green building technology, applications, case studies, product releases, new literature announcements, and events. Green building (also known as green construction or sustainable building) refers to a structure and using process that is environmentally responsible and resource-efficient throughout a building's life-cycle: from siting to design, construction, operation, maintenance, renovation, and demolition. This practice expands and complements the classical building design concerns of economy, utility, durability, and comfort. Although new technologies are constantly being developed to complement current practices in creating greener structures, the common objective is that green buildings are designed to reduce the overall impact of the built environment on human health and the natural environment by: Efficiently using energy, water, and other resources, Protecting occupant health and improving employee productivity, Reducing waste, pollution and environmental degradation
6. HVAC/R Trends, product innovations, and code updates for engineers designing HVAC systems for commercial, industrial, and institutional buildings.HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning) refers to technology of indoor or automotive environmental comfort. HVAC system design is a major subdiscipline of mechanical engineering, based on the principles of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer. Refrigeration is sometimes added to the field's abbreviation as HVAC&R or HVACR, or ventilating is dropped as in HACR (such as the designation of HACR-rated circuit breakers). HVAC is important in the design of medium to large industrial and office buildings such as skyscrapers and in marine environments such as aquariums, where safe and healthy building conditions are regulated with temperature and humidity, as well as "fresh air" from outdoors.
7. Lighting Commercial buildings such as schools, hospitals and office buildings have varying lighting requirements based upon the workspace in question. Also, efficiency considerations regarding a new construction versus retrofit situation differ greatly based upon the design scheme. Furthermore, over the past decade, technology that has been promoted as high efficiency is becoming the mainstream. As a result, national, state and regional programs encourage the use of energy-efficient lighting technologies through a multitude of program approaches and measures to attain energy savings.
8. Plumbing Plumbing Engineers and other engineers including Civil, Facility, Fire Protection, Mechanical, Plant, Senior Project, Specifying, Plumbing Designers, Master Plumbers, Contractors, Inspectors, Government and Regulatory Officials, Code Officials, Builders, Architects, Consultants, and Manufacturers.
9. Power Power quality, reliability, and solutions for engineers designing systems for commercial, industrial, and institutional buildings.
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1. Cannon Design Cannon Design’s blog is a place for the many voices of the firm to share thoughts and news related to current projects, industry trends and events across the profession. We seek to share valuable content and offer a glimpse into our practice and its commitment to help solve the greatest problems facing our clients and society
  1. Achieving high performance operation with energy alarms I had the opportunity to deliver this presentation along with Christopher Longchamps, Senior Facilities Engineer for Partners Healthcare System Inc. at the annual American Society of Healthcare Engineering conference in San Francisco. I wanted to share it with everyone as I think it's quite informative and offers a good look into the topic of energy and operational performance.
  2. The value of commissioning Here is a testimonial video explaining why commissioning was so vital to the Eckerd College project and praising the Cannon Design Commissioning team on their work.
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4. Insights on Power Insights on Power is a blog authored by Sam Sciacca, PE.
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Events and Awards Consulting-Specifying Engineer and CFE Media offer several events, awards, and recognition programs. They include: MEP Giants, 40 Under 40, and Product of the Year.
1. 40 Under 40 The Consulting-Specifying Engineer 40 Under 40 program recognizes the 40 most talented young engineers supporting the building community and elevates their accomplishments.
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