TRA-LA, TRA-LA, IT'S SPRING!

For you lucky thermal wimps in the South, you probably don't care, but its spring. For us folks in the North, we're finally getting out of the chill and enjoying the weather you southerners get all year long. We're kinda like the fashion industry in that we have to look ahead of each season to prepare. Even though it's not hot yet, we need to focus on the cooling equipment and changing over our systems. I wonder what the legislators will think up this year in the way of new codes for us to comply with. OH, WELL. We'll find out.

ASHRAE TO HOST SATELLITE WEBCAST ON MOLD
ATLANTA - Concerns about mold in the building environment are no longer limited to just humid environments or North America, says the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). Mold is now a global concern for designers, contractors, building owners/operators, and building occupants. Information on how to properly control moisture and humidity conditions in order to minimize mold will be presented in an April 13, 2005, satellite broadcast and Webcast, "Mold in Our Building Environment," offered by ASHRAE. The program is sponsored by ASHRAE's Chapter Technology Transfer Committee (CTTC). (more)

STUPID CELEBRITY COMMENTS.

These come from the entertainment elite who think the rest of us are a bunch of rubes:

"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff." --Mariah Carey

"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life," --Brooke Shields,

"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country," --Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC.

"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it." --Al Gore, Vice President (DUH !)

CALCULATING LEAK RATES
A new Clean Air Act amendment will likely cause owners and operators of equipment that contains ozone-depleting refrigerant charges in excess of 50 pounds to review and re-evaluate their leak rate calculation methods. The actual impact of the Environmental Protection Agency's changes in Section 608 of the Act, which are scheduled to become effective March 14, 2005, will not be known for some time. What is clear is the agency is making a significant attempt to address the growing number of new refrigerants that are entering the marketplace.

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"We are born naked, wet, and hungry. Then things get worse."
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"As long as there are exams, there will be prayer in public schools."
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NECC WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
This year's schedule is very aggressive, as we've begun to use a secondary training site in College Park, MD.
Click here for course descriptions, schedule and registration information.

PRODUCT CORNER
New Honeywell Communicating T7350 Thermostat
Honeywell is proud to introduce the new communicating T7350 thermostats (T7350H1009 and T7350H1017) that complete Honeywell's line of premier stand-alone commercial programmable thermostats.

• The communicating T7350 is fully supported by LCBS 5.0 (LonSpec 5.1.0, LonStation 5.1.0 and XL15B).
• The two communicating models will be identical to their stand-alone equivalents, but with the capability to appear on a LonWorks network.
• The T7350H1009 has the same control capability as the T7350D1008.

• The T7350H1017 has the same control capability as the T7350M1008.
  Click here to find out more.

A New Line Of Digital Relative Humidity Sensors ,designed to accurately sense humidity in computer rooms, office buildings, schools, retail stores, hospitals and museums is now available from Viconics. Accuracy and dependability now come at a reasonable price! Click here to find out more.

INDUSTRY EVENTS
National Conference on Building Commissioning, May 4-6, New York. Contact Summer Lewis at 503-595-4484, slewis@peci.org.

ASHRAE Annual Meeting, June 25-29, Denver. Contact ASHRAE Meetings Section, 1791 Tullie Circle NE, Atlanta, GA 30329; 678-539-1219, jyoung@ashrae.org , or www.ashrae.org.

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AND FINALLY-
THE PICTURE OF THE MONTH (YOU'LL LOVE THIS!)
OSHA SPECIAL SCAFFOLD!

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