You don’t hear about low-risk, high-reward investment opportunities every day. Consider building “retrocommissioning”. In 2010, Pike Research told readers that retrocommissioning had a 90 percent return…
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The Fort LeBoeuf School District in northwest Pennsylvania faced a problem common to many school districts: Aging infrastructure and rising utility costs were putting a strain…
Jared Blumenfeld, the Pacific Southwest regional administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., recently commended Bear Republic Brewery, Cloverdale, Calif., for its technological leap…
Measuring energy use in a building seems like a straightforward notion. Energy enters a building through the electric meter and the utility company sends a bill…
A German air-raid bunker erected in 1943 today supplies its neighborhood with green energy. The 187- by 187-foot building in the district of Wilhelmsburg in Hamburg, Germany, was…
What do most food-service professionals do with the tons of weekly food scraps they create while prepping, cooking and cleaning up after meals? A few may…