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PHCC’s
Connect 2010 to give contractors tools to reenergize their
businesses
FALLS CHURCH, VA. — What happens when Quality Service
Contractors and the Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors – National
Association join forces? Contractors can get the expanded power tools
needed to electrify their businesses, via one industry-specific
convenient meeting, CONNECT 2010 — the only national event for the
p-h-c industry.
The joint gathering is scheduled for Oct. 27-30, 2010, at the Paris
Hotel Las Vegas, and will offer plumbing and HVACR service and repair
contractors top-of-the-line educational and networking opportunities —
for a smaller and more efficient investment of time and money than two
separate meetings.
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Building
green can be cost effective
BY CANDACE ROULO
Some contractors, engineers and architects think that
building green is too expensive. Case in point: Just this week, I was
reading The Architect’s Newspaper that I picked up a few weeks ago at
NeoCon’s Buildex in Chicago, and read that Frank Gehry, a Pritzker
prize-winning architect, had a few things to say about green building.
The modern architectural icon said that LEED gives credits for bogus
stuff and that green buildings don’t pay back, according to an
editorial piece by Alan G. Brake, Midwest editor of The Architect’s
Newspaper.
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DOE
showers industry with confusion
BY ROBERT P. MADER
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Energy probably
didn’t know what it was getting itself into when it announced an
interpretive rule in early June that would effectively ban multi-head
shower systems.
Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors – National Association has called
on its members to strongly protest a DOE proposal that would ban
multiple head showers. DOE proposes to interpret the Energy Policy and
Conservation Act of 1975, as amended, to mean that a showerhead is
anything past the mixing valve. That would mean that all fittings could
not spray more than 2.5 GPM combined.
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Sisters’
monastery defines sustainability, receives LEED Platinum
certification
BY CANDACE ROULO
MADISON, WIS. — The Benedictine Women of Madison work
toward environmental solutions and teach the importance of nature in
daily life as part of their mission, thus, it was natural that they
aimed for a high level of sustainability when building their new
monastery, which recently received U.S. Green Building Council LEED
Platinum certification. The monastery earned 63 out of a possible 69
points under the LEED for New Construction Version 2.2 Rating System,
making it the highest rated LEED Platinum building for new construction
in the U.S.
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Study
finds dry cities have cheap water
VISTA CALIF. — A first-of-its-kind study evaluating
residential water use and charges in 30 metropolitan areas of the United
States finds that some drought-plagued, “dry” cities in the country
actually have the lowest water rates in the nation.
The study was conducted by the Circle of Blue (www.circleofblue.org/waternews/),
a news and communications organization focusing on water-related issues.
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