Advances related to the BACnet standard, including recommending public review for an addendum that would tunnel BACnet over ZigBee wireless networks, were made during ASHRAE’s Winter Meeting.
The Green Mechanical Council is pleased to announce that it has entered into a Memorandum of Cooperation with the Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA).
Engineering Systems partnered with LonMark International (LMI) for a well-attended and well-reviewed Green Intelligent Buildings Conference in Baltimore on April 2-3. These events bring together the latest in green, energy-efficient control system design to a targeted audience of building owners, developers, and facility managers, as well as mechanical, electrical, and operating engineers.
The Green Mechanical Council announced today the appointment of Ralph Avallone, International President of the Green Energy Council, to the Green Mechanical Council Board of Directors.
Two recently released studies, one by the New Buildings Institute (NBI) and one by CoStar Group, have validated what the green building community has known all along: third-party certified buildings outperform their conventional counterparts across a wide variety of metrics, including energy savings, occupancy rates, sale price, and rental rates.
Speakers from Dell, HP, Marriott, Microsoft, and Volvo, as well as Newt Gingrich and experts from academia, government, associations, utilities to lead interactive Web-enabled dialogue on Energy best practices.
