A key strategy for university energy efficiency is unarguably LED lighting. LED lighting retrofits make a significant impact on energy intensity, usage, and efficiency in facilities at colleges and universities. This type of efficiency project is...
Ken Rackowski, Executive Vice President of our Efficiency Solutions Control Division, is a veteran of the building automation industry. With over 30 years of engineering and management experience related to controls systems and HVAC design, Ken has...
College and university endowments are managed by financial professionals who generally invest in a portfolio of equity and bond investment vehicles that will produce a 5 - 6% return (in a good year). Nothing is guaranteed, as the recession crisis of...
The data center industry’s ability to improve energy efficiency is massive. According to the latest U.S. Data Center Energy Usage Report published last year that examines data from 2014, data centers in the U.S. consumed an estimated 70 billion kWh,...
Data center facilities of all types must monitor power and cooling data to be responsive when things go wrong, but they don’t often analyze combined data to obtain operational efficiencies. While a data center’s function is to protect the servers...
Any retrofit to commercial LED lighting upgrades or solutions will immediately improve efficiency and provide your facility with energy and financial savings. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is one of many industry leaders currently stating that...
Long before the invention of LED lighting technology, the incandescent bulb helped to launch the era of modern lighting. Many improvements were made to incandescent bulbs over time, but researchers had still only figured out how to convert about 10%...
Never to be underestimated, LED lighting and the lighting retrofit industry have huge benefits to offer business and commercial buildings through (relatively) simple upgrades. Lighting is so important to workplace environments, from enabling...
The color temperature of LED lighting is an aesthetic choice and you may have your own preference for each setting and application. When developing an energy conservation project, it's important to not only find solutions that are energy efficient...
Hospital or healthcare facilities present many opportunities for improvement via a hospital retrofit project if efficiency measures are implemented with attention to their primary function. These are our "3 P's" to consider before starting a...
An energy audit, or energy use analysis, offers insight in how your buildings are performing and the opportunities available for improvement. You may not want to bring an unknown company onsite without knowing what to expect. Before committing to an...
America's expansive heartland has seen tremendous growth in demand for new and expanded efficiency measures. Overall investments in energy efficiency have continued to increase in the Midwest throughout 2016, with many states in the region...