By Heidi Schwartz, on May 9, 2012, at 1:16 pm  In late 2011, Mark Dreyfus, Cabinet Secretary and Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency announced Neil Wood, Senior Facilities Manager with Brisbane City Council as the the 2011 FMA Australia Facilities Manager of the Year. The award was the highlight of the 2011 FMA Australia Awards for Excellence, recognizing leadership in facilities management throughout Australia. During the ceremony, Parliamentary Secretary Dreyfus presented a message of support from the Prime Minister and highlighted the strong role that facilities managers have in improving energy efficiency.
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By Anne Vazquez, on May 9, 2012, at 10:31 am GE Lighting presented its 2011 GE Edison Award on May 8, 2012 for a lighting design project carried out at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, DC. A personalized Steuben crystal award was presented in Las Vegas, NV to Glenn Heinmiller, Paul Zaferiou, and Dan Weissman of Lam Partners located in Cambridge, MA for their work on the project.
 The United States Institute of Peace Now in its 29th year, this annual lighting design competition is open to those lighting professionals who creatively employ significant use of GE light sources (lamps and/or LEDs) in a lighting design project completed during the previous calendar year.
The Winning Design Project
The first permanent home of the United States Institute of Peace is located near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. The translucent wing-like roofs that connect the building’s three curving sections presented the most challenging lighting problem: to light the roofs with no visible sources so they glow softly both inside and outside. A pervasive lighting theme, featuring GE T5 fluorescent lamps, is present throughout the building. Light sources are fully concealed or designed to disappear, revealing and animating, but not competing with the architecture.
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By Heidi Schwartz, on May 8, 2012, at 12:13 pm  On January 12, 2011, Georgia Tech’s College of Architecture unveiled the $9.5 million restoration, rehabilitation, and adaptive reuse of the historic Hinman Research Building. Designed in 1939 (pictured, left) by P.M. Heffernan, architect and later director of the Tech School of Architecture (1956-1976), the 35,000-square-foot building has been artfully preserved and revitalized in collaboration between Lord, Aeck & Sargent’s Historic Preservation Studio and Office dA as the architects; The Beck Group served as construction manager.
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By Anne Vazquez, on May 8, 2012, at 11:28 am Falcon Electric, Inc., a manufacturer of online uninterruptible power supply (UPS), frequency converters and precision ac regulators, now offers the option to add a ruggedized wide temperature (-30°C to 63°C) extended runtime battery bank for its SSG and SSG-RP UPS products.
 Seen here: Falcon's SSG-RP Series 1 - 3kVA Ultra-Wide Temp. UPS (Rackmount) The wide temperature rated batteries provide long backup runtimes for protecting connected computers and instrumentation operating in harsh environments during a prolonged power outage. The new battery pack gives users more than 10 times the battery runtime, compared to Falcon’s standard 2U extended battery pack option.
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By Anne Vazquez, on May 7, 2012, at 2:06 pm Responding to three individually filed exception requests, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has postponed by two years (to July 14, 2014) the phase-out date for 700-series T-8 general-service fluorescent lamps (GSFLs) manufactured by GE Lighting (GE); OSRAM SYLVANIA, Inc. (OSI); and Philips Lighting Company (Philips).
Only companies that have been excepted by DOE may continue to manufacture or import the T-8 GSFLs in question beyond July 14, 2012. The lamps involved are the 4-foot medium bi-pin, 2-foot U-shaped, 8-foot Slimline, and 8-foot high-output 700-series T-8s. Reportedly, other manufacturers may be in the process of seeking a DOE exception.
DOE’s Office of Hearings and Appeals (OHA) granted the extensions to GE, OSI, and Philips. (Companies must petition the OHA individually. OHA grants requests to individual companies, not to the industry as a whole.) The basis for the exceptions was the growing scarcity and escalating cost of the rare earth oxides used to manufacture the phosphors intrinsic to the proper functioning of fluorescent lamps. The severe supply/cost difficulties—which were not foreseen when the DOE Lamp Rulemaking of 2009 concluded—have been caused by manufacturing and export regulations subsequently instituted by China.
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