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Advice on how to select a quality LED is provided by BRYAN DOUGLAS, chief executive officer of the Lighting Council Australia.
LED advice: How to select a quality LED
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What is financially the most efficient way to effectively light a room?
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SHANE VAN DE VORSTENBOSCH, director at OnSolution, investigates what is financially the most efficient method to effectively light a room.
5 energy management strategy lessons learnt from Wests Tennis Club's $100,000 savings
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CHRIS WRIGHT, owner of Energy Partners Australia, shares how $100,000 is being saved at Wests Tennis Club and how these energy savings can be replicated.
How harmonics threatens your electrical installation
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How electrical energy can be saved and a facility future-proofed by paying attention to harmonics is explained by SUBODH BHATIA from Westek Electronics.
Using cloud computing to cut energy and operating costs
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SIMON JAMES, general manager for Honeywell’s Energy and Environment Solutions Business, shares how cloud computing can be used to cut energy and operating costs.
Energy management: From audit to implementation
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Through reducing its energy consumption HEI Hotels & Resorts is saving an estimated US$5 million annually. Vice president of facilities and Total Facilities 2012 speaker, BOB HOLESKO shares how his team accomplished this feat and how it is further enhancing installed programs.
Planning for Sydney's energy revolution
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The Better Buildings Partnership, which presented at Total Facilities 2012 on the topic, provides advice on what to consider when contemplating connecting to Sydney’s new thermal reticulation network.
What the next generation of demand response needs to look like
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Total Facilities 2012 speaker, MICHAEL ZIMMERMAN, BuildingIQ chief executive officer, provides an overview of the challenges involved in preparing buildings for interaction with smart grids, and details what the next generation of demand response needs to include.
Financing energy efficiency retrofits cost-effectively
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SCOTT BOCSKAY, Total Facilities 2012 speaker and chief executive of Sustainable Melbourne Fund, explains how environmental upgrade agreements allow the realisation of cost-effective energy efficiency gains.
The vision behind the Empire State 'rebuilding'
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After only one year, the Empire State Building’s energy efficiency retrofit has saved US$2.4 million and made the building 20 percent more energy efficient. Johnson Controls’ CLAY NESLER reveals how this was achieved.
Common power quality culprits and how to minimise downtime
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GANESH GANESHKUMAR, product manager industrial group at Fluke Australia, shares which common culprits of power quality issues you should be mindful of and which steps you should take to ensure facilities run efficiently and downtime is minimised.
Energy survey provides energy efficiency and carbon tax insights
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Energy Action’s Customer Insights Survey has revealed what companies think about energy usage and the carbon tax. EDWARD HANNA of Energy Action delves into the survey’s results and shares the insights gained.
How to choose the right energy consultant
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Energy Action highlights ways to choose the right energy procurement partner.
Tangible ways to reduce facilities' exposure to increasing energy costs
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The carbon price is here and so too are many reports of how business costs will increase as a direct result. ALAN DAVIS, an associate director and Sydney team leader of WSP Built Ecology, investigates tangible ways of reducing a building owner’s exposure to increasing energy costs driven by the carbon price and increasing electricity network charges.
7 factors to consider when upgrading to LEDs
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A checklist of the most important factors to consider when upgrading to LEDs has been compiled by Brightgreen to help facilities managers make smart lighting decisions.