FORT GARLAND, COLO. — Sierra Grande K-12 school in Fort Garland, Colo., struggled to make it through the mild 2011-2012 winter. Of the three 1.8 million Btuh LP-fired, cast iron boilers in the mechanical room, one had been down for some time. Another caught on fire halfway through the heating season....More

CHATTANOOGA, TENN. — Being first to accomplish something is a remarkable achievement in its own right. Anyone attempting anything after the fact is just considered a follower. Take the automotive industry, for example....More

LOUISVILLE, KY. — GE Appliances & Lighting has a new data center — the first United States Green Building Council LEED-Platinum certified data center in all of Kentucky — at its Appliance Park headquarters here. Rather than building the new data center from scratch, GE revitalized an existing building for the new data center....More

THE ENVIR-O LINEAR AIR PUMPS are designed for use in wastewater treatment units....More

HE CIRCUIT SENTRY FLO-SETTER VALvE is an energy-saving balancing valve that maintains the set flow rate within +/-5%...More

The International Code Council has launched an International Green Construction Code initiative with the intent to reduce energy usage and the carbon footprint of commercial buildings. Entitled “IGCC: Safe and Sustainable By the Book,” the initiative is committed to develop a model code focused on new and existing commercial buildings....More

Austin, Texas Texas may soon be the second state, after California, to require all toilets sold on and after Jan. 1, 2014, to be 1.28-gpf or less and...More