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ALLIANCE IN THE MAKING AFE/ASHRAE/IFMA MEET

Orlando, Florida - On Sunday, January 24th, 2010, president of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), Mr. Gordon Holness, PE, met with the board of directors of the Association for Facilities Engineering, to discuss the newly published ASHRAE Standard 189.1, for high performance buildings. AFE Chief Executive Officer, Laurence Gration, CAE, discussed a draft of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with ASHRAE, IFMA and AFE

AFE Chapter 74 Offers Electrical Safety Arc Flash Training

AFE 74 Sponsored an Electrical Safety Seminar on Wednesday, January 13th. The class was well attended with 50 people showing up to hear about new OSHA and NFPA 70E practices in electrical safety including the new arc flash regulations . Our thanks go out to the event sponsors Clark University for hosting the event, Schulz Electric for sponsoring the breakfast and OSHA Region 1 for providing the excellent presenter, Ken Mastrullo CPE. The class was very informative and well received by all, so good that we decided to do another event this summer. Keep any eye out for the notice as its sure to be another sell out.

AFE CHAPTER 33 BOSTON UNVEILS NO-COST ENERGY CONSERVATION TECHNOLOGY AT LAHEY CLINIC, BURLINGTON, MA

It's called Molecular Accelerator" technology, a new way of generating energy for heating, and treating and processing virtually any type of fluid. Used as an Energy Conservation Measure ["ECM"] and Energy Efficiency Measure ["EEM"] in the Energy Services Industry, the Molecular Accelerator induces environmentally clean electro-mechanical and kinetic energy in contrast to fossil-fuel fired heating technologies. The first commercial unit has been installed at the world class Lahey Clinic hospital in Burlington, Massachusetts. The installation will be used as a Beta Site and as a marketing and sales platform for customers and investors. The Company has the ability to design, pre-assemble and install approximately 250 of its MX-100 Systems per year while consciously keeping its products and labor as being manufactured, assembled and tested in the U.S.A. Transkinetic Energy" Corporation is a Delaware corporation formed in 2004 and currently occupying a 18,000 square foot corporate, equipment assembly and Research & Development facility in Pembroke, Massachusetts. Transkinetic provides a long-term, quantifiable and engineered solution to quickly and significantly reduce existing net fossil fuel energy costs and the associated Greenhouse Gas ["GHG"] emission levels from existing main central boiler plants with no initial capital expenditure or additional cost to the customer&today.

 

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