'Too cold' and 'too hot' most common complaints among

The International Facility Management Association has released “Temperature Wars: Savings vs. Comfort,” a new study that takes an indepth look at the most common thermal complaints made by workers and the variety of ways facility professionals respond to them.

For many years, IFMA has surveyed facility professionals to learn the top office complaints among employees. Respondents consistently cite the temperature being too hot or too cold as the most frequent grievances they hear — surpassing high noise levels, limited space and unpleasant odors

Echelon and ROMlight Smart Lighting System Reduces Energy Use by Over 60%

Echelon Corporation and ROMlight International, Inc. today announced the first installation in Canada of a high bay lighting system featuring LonWorks® control networking technology to provide smart, two-way communicating lights. The new solution installed at the Kelly Western Services Ltd. aircraft hangar in Winnipeg uses energy efficient, individually dimmable lights to cut energy use by over 60 percent, or over 250,000 kWh per year.

Reflections on record breaking ConnectivityWeek and BuilConn

With nearly 1,000 people in attendance in Santa Clara this year, it was clearly a watershed event in many ways. The perfect storm produced a perfect event; a combination of rich subjects discussed, enormous business opportunities for vendors and integrators alike, on a backdrop of solving climate change problems and interestingly an awareness of social changes permeating our world. All of these came together in Santa Clara in June.

Making Building Automation Brainier

Scientific Conservation says its software can boost the energy savings of a typical building automation system by 25 percent. Making buildings more energy efficient is a focus for many, including Energy Secretary Steven Chu.