Requirements for bird-friendly glass are on the rise. Pictured is the National Aviary, with bird-friendly glass by Walker Glass.
The National Glass Association held its winter NGA Glass Conference Feb. 9. At the top of the agenda for the virtual meeting: new energy and environmental codes and regulations that will impact the glass industry, driving product trends and asking more from companies.
1. Glassmakers meet California emissions targets, for now.
The Buy Clean California Act, known as AB 262, requires that the state’s Department of General Services sets maximum acceptable Global Warming Potential carbon emissions targets for certain building products, including flat glass, going into public construction projects. The targets are based on Environmental Product Declarations as part of a product’s Life Cycle Analysis. The industry celebrated a major advocacy win in January, when California’s DGS adopted the recommended GWP targets from the NGA’s Advocacy and Forming C
CIMCO Continues Commitment to Climate Action, Removes Refrigerants With High Global Warming Potential From Its Product Line
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TORONTO, Feb. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ - CIMCO Refrigeration Canada s largest industrial refrigeration contractor and a leader in natural refrigerant-based technology, has upped its commitment to climate-friendly ice rink refrigerants with low-to-zero Global Warming Potential (GWP), the metric that compares the global warming impacts of different greenhouse gases. CIMCO will no longer manufacture recreational ice rink packages that use high-GWP refrigerants, including HFO blends such as R513a. CIMCO recognizes that our industry has a key role to play in eliminating super-polluting refrigerants like hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), says David Malinauskas, President of CIMCO. Our new offerings align with the Kigali Amendment and Montreal Protocol. They also exceed the new California Air Resources Board (CAR
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Heating and Ventilation News
Understandably, the emphasis on indoor air quality is higher than ever, with increasing pressure to ensure our buildings are well-ventilated and their occupants are provided with a clean and healthy indoor environment to enjoy.
Yet, with climate change continuing to be one of the biggest challenges facing our global community, tackling both our internal and external environments is the best way to ensure a healthy future and fresh, clean air for all – as Martin Passingham, product & training manager from Daikin UK explains.
With everyone spending more time at home in recent months than many of us would have preferred, the quality of our indoor environments is coming under much closer scrutiny than ever before. But perhaps you’d be surprised to know that this trend is not a new thing; even before the events of 2020, some estimates suggested that we spend up to 90 per cent of our time indoors. With an increasingly urban population, this does not app
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In recent years, the utilization of a number of common refrigerants has been restricted in order to reduce environmental impact. The Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration (HVACR) industry are subjected to growing pressure to choose refrigerants carefully.
They are leaving behind widely-used hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) in favor of refrigerants with lower Global Warming Potential (GWP).
Revised leakage detection technologies are needed for the safe employment of these relatively new refrigerants. These safety requirements are codified by new standards (such as UL 60335-2-40 3rd edition and IEC-60079-29-1).
These new requirements will be added to building standards for residential and commercial air-conditioning equipment as early as 2025, following the latest decision from the California Air Resources Board (CARB).