The Clay County Progress
The school is moving ahead with a $921,000 contract guaranteed to upgrade systems and recoup the money spent on energy improvements.
Pablo Pittaluga, with Johnson Controls, presented the final report of his company’s analysis of the Clay County Schools campus.
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How could your school district improve the energy efficiency of its buildings?
Reuters
Here are 10 ways you can reduce your energy usage and costs without sacrificing comfort or building functionality.
The tips are among the free tools and case studies available on the Johnson Controls Inc. microsite www.MakeYourBuildingWork.com.
The site launched earlier this summer as part of the company’s campaign to emphasize practical solutions for owners, managers and building operators to improve the energy efficiency and performance of their facilities.
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How many of these practices is your organization following?
Bloomberg
The first stop on my tour of New York’s Empire State Building was not the observatory rising high atop the 102nd floor, but a window factory on the fifth.
Here, a “green-collar” workforce of 40 strips old windows out of their frames, hangs a new heat-reflecting film between two panes of glass, putties sealant along the edges, and pops them back in the cleaned old frames.
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How do you think the Empire State Building is a model for other building retrofits?
The Daily Review
Bradford County will save $800,000 more than anticipated through its ongoing $3 million project to make its buildings more energy efficient, county officials announced on Thursday.
The county will issue $3 million in bonds at a low interest rate to pay for the project, and the interest payments on the bonds are $800,000 less than had been anticipated in June, when the cost of the project was announced, said Joan Sanderson, Bradford County fiscal director.
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What is your local government doing to increase energy efficiency in public facilities?
Johnson Controls (NYSE: JCI), the global leader in delivering products, services and solutions that increase energy efficiency in buildings, announced that it signed an Energy Performance Contract (EPC) with the German Army for the Oranienstein base. Following the project the German Army will be able to cut annual energy costs for the base by 49 percent and further reduce its emission of greenhouse gases (GHG) by 55 percent. Johnson Controls is already retrofitting another German Army base in Aulenbach reducing energy costs by 69 percent and GHG emissions by 76 percent. » More: Johnson Controls selected by German Army for an energy performance contract at their Oranienstein base
The Northwestern
The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh continues to be recognized as one of the nation’s leading green campuses.
Following a comprehensive and sophisticated carbon-footprint study conducted by Johnson Controls, the University recently established one of the nation’s most aggressive Climate Action Plans to achieve carbon neutrality by 2025.
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What is your college or university doing to green campus facilities?
The Daily O’Collegian, Oklahoma State University
This August, Oklahoma State University is undergoing a series of renovations that consist of a wide variety of energy-saving measures. These improvements are part of the Energy Conservation Program (ECP).
OSU has also partnered with Johnson Controls for an Energy Savings Performance Contract.
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What is your campus doing to go green?
Construction Week Online
Buddy Watters admits that just when the Johnson Controls expected to enter a quiet summer period to catch its breath, the opposite has occurred.
The US company, which offers systems that coordinate air conditioning, lighting and other areas of internal facilities, has been “fully engaged in jobs” and the seeming endless opportunities in Saudi Arabia afforded by the recent investment in construction and infrastructure.
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What is your organization doing to make its facilities more energy efficient?
