Architecture Students at Ball State University Learn to Design Green Buildings … From the Ground Up

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Architecture students at Ball State University will learn how to save the environment one building at a time as Dave Sommer, business leader for Trane Indiana, discusses how green architecture incorporates innovative designs and technologies to significantly reduce a building’s negative impact on the environment.
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Green building efforts often begin from the ground up [...]

Engineering Students Learn to Take Action on ‘Green Movement’ at Indiana University-Bloomington

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Students at Indiana University-Bloomington will be learning how to “walk the energy-efficiency talk” as Dave Sommer, business leader for Trane Indiana, shares how green buildings leverage innovative, energy-efficient technologies to significantly reduce their environmental impact.
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Currently, buildings consume one-third of energy worldwide — emitting significantly more CO2 than the aggregate industry or transportation sectors. As [...]

Green Buildings Are Now!

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Commercial buildings use about 1/3 of the energy worldwide, accelerating the demand for implementation of energy-saving techniques into new and existing buildings. To address this, building owners and the design and construction industry have found green, sustainable building as the right solution.
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And now students and universities are incorporating these principles into the classroom. Senior [...]

Ferris State University Students Learn From Trane How Green Building Can Reduce Largest Global Warming Culprit

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Chris Comperchio, business leader for Trane’s commercial business in Chicago and West Michigan, will speak to Ferris State University students on Oct. 23 about how they can reduce the impact of buildings, the largest global warming culprit — through green building and sustainability.
Comperchio’s presentation, “Green Building and Sustainability” will be held: 11 a.m. – noon [...]

Kentucky Girl Scouts Learn About Thermal Retention from Trane in ‘Don’t Let the Ice Cream Melt’ Hands-On Workshops

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Girl Scouts from Girl Scouts of Kentucky’s Wilderness Road Council will discover the properties of thermal insulation and learn about engineering careers as part of the GEMS (Girls Enjoying Math and Science) Program at the University of Kentucky (UK) on Saturday, Oct. 25.
Jessica Tooley, Dan Parker and Alison Randolph from Trane’s air handling manufacturing facility [...]

Trane Advances Green Communities with Platinum Sponsorship of Greenbuild 2008

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Trane, a leading global provider of indoor comfort systems and services for homes and commercial buildings, will be prominently represented in Boston as the city welcomes the U.S. Green Building Council’s 2008 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo on Nov.19-21 in the Boston Convention and Expo Center (BCEC).
As a platinum sponsor for the third consecutive year, [...]

Iowa State University and Trane Launch Nation’s First Collegiate Sales Engineering Club

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Would you believe that sales and engineering are as good together as peanut butter and jelly?
Sales and engineering have crossed paths over the years, but today companies are taking a closer look at that relationship and seeing more opportunities for the two fields to converge.
In order to sell and consult on technologically and scientifically advanced [...]

Area Alternative School ‘Graduates’ to New Location

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An area alternative high school that provides a fresh start for at-risk students from Whiteland High School is getting a new beginning of its own. On October 28 Clark-Pleasant Community School Corporation and Indianapolis-based non-profit Simon Youth Foundation will unveil the new site of Clark Pleasant Academy (CPA).
Clark Pleasant Academy was established in 2005 to [...]

Hospital CEOs Learn to Improve Quality and Efficiency

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C-level executives will learn how to improve the quality of hospital care and how the physical environment of care impacts quality during a conference at the Hyatt Regency Crown Center in Kansas City, Mo., on Oct. 10.
Trane and the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) have partnered to offer this professional learning opportunity for ACHE [...]

Trane President Speaks to UW-Madison Faculty and Students on Green Building

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John Conover, President of Trane’s commercial systems business in the Americas, will speak to students, faculty and university leaders at the University of Wisconsin – Madison on Thursday as part of the university’s Lindbergh Lecture Series.
The theme of the day will be “green building and sustainability,” and Conover’s presentation discusses the state of green building [...]