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Industrial: Hawaii Hotel Co-gen Plant Produces Electricity From Waste Heat

A new co-generation plant is supporting energy conservation and savings by producing electricity and hot water for a beachside hotel in Waikiki, Hawaii.

New technologies streamline Southland Industries' work

Using collaboration tools and other new technologies on data center work has made possible extensive productivity gains at SMACNA contractor Southland Industries and helps make them more competitive. Southland has offices in California, Nevada, and Virginia.

Duct Fabricators helps clean up Lake Erie by going underground

SMACNA Cleveland’s Duct Fabricators Inc., based in Cleveland, Ohio, is helping keep roughly 4 billion gallons of untreated waste out of Lake Erie every year with its work on the $73 million Easterly Tunnel Dewatering Pump Station (ETDPS) project, one of the largest combined sewer pump station projects in the United States.

UMEC: Heavy weight contractor for Herculean task

A project for Solar Turbines in San Diego required SMACNA contractor University Mechanical and Engineering Contractors, Inc. (UMEC), an EMCOR Company, of El Cajon, Calif., to do some seriously heavy lifting.

Seattle contractor gets into hot water to warm Amazon campus

When Seattle-based SMACNA contractor McKinstry recently got into hot water, the company was not in trouble. Rather, it was undertaking an innovative “green” project that saves enough energy annually to keep 365 Seattle homes warm or 80 million kilowatt hours of energy over the next 25 years.

SMACNA contractor helps Cleveland plant go clean and green

When Cleveland’s Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District recently constructed a new $170 million energy treatment center, they called upon SMACNA contractor Duct Fabricators to provide the new facility with its extensive air-handling systems. They had a big job to do.

Two SMACNA contractors enable Rider University to save energy, boost building performance

Fume hood conversions lead to energy efficiency, cost savings − In university laboratories, fume hoods help keep scientists, students, instructors, and researchers safe. Fume hoods protect lab workers from fumes, smoke, and hazardous chemical vapors that escape into the air while they work.

For Disney to clean lots of laundry, it needs Lapin Sheet Metal’s help

What’s a tunnel washer? No, it’s not something you’d need to clean out New York City’s Lincoln Tunnel. It’s a huge tube through which a massive amount of laundry moves—getting clean in the process.

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News Virtual Welding Enhances Learning and Safety

The need to remain cost-effective while enhancing worker safety is increasing the use of virtual reality to train welders in the construction industry.

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News Industrial: Hawaii Hotel Co-gen Plant Produces Electricity From Waste Heat

A new co-generation plant is supporting energy conservation and savings by producing electricity and hot water for a beachside hotel in Waikiki, Hawaii.

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Resource Large U.S. Manufacturers Make Commitments to Save Energy and Reduce Emissions

The Alliance for Industrial Efficiency released a report in June 2018 called, “Committed to Savings: Major U.S. Manufacturers Set Public Goals for Energy Efficiency.” The report "reviewed 160 of the largest manufacturing companies with U.S. facilities to explore public energy efficiency and greenhouse gas (GHG) commitments."

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News Industrial: SMACNA’s Technical Services Helps Answer Industrial Questions

In addition to developing and issuing highly regarded industry standards, SMACNA’s Technical Services Department continuously fields questions about technical aspects of sheet metal construction and the application of specific SMACNA standards.

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News Industrial Insights – Outlook: U.S. plant spending forecast to grow in 2018

Fueled by a soaring U.S. economy and lower corporate tax rates, industrial sector experts anticipate a 5.9 percent increase in overall U.S. industry plant spending to $328.5 billion in 2018. The spending forecast is up by $18.35 billion from last year according to the industry market research provider, Industrial Info Resources.

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Resource 2018 FMI Outlook Featuring FMI’s Fourth Quarter 2017 Construction Outlook

The 2018 FMI Outlook Featuring FMI’s Fourth Quarter 2017 Construction Outlook includes FMI executives sharing their opinions on how 2017 will shape up and the forecast for 2018.

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Resource SMACNA Supports Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act of 2017

On November 20, 2017, SMACNA submitted a letter to the United States Senate endorsing passage of Senate Bill S.512, the Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act of 2017.

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Resource National Combined Heat and Power Overview Fact Sheet

The Alliance for Industrial Efficiency offers this new National Combined Heat and Power Overview fact sheet providing a comprehensive overview of the CHP opportunity in the United States.

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Resource Industrial Project Information Available to Contractors through SMART

A significant resource for SMACNA contractors looking for project opportunities in the industrial sector is available through SMART and local Union offices. Industrial Info Resources© is a web-based search engine that gathers, updates and disseminates information on industrial customers and projects.

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News SMACNA’s Industrial Committee: Here to serve you

The industrial marketplace is a conglomeration of many types of work: food, pharmaceutical, steel, petroleum/chemical, automotive, pulp and paper, power generation, coal, agricultural, steel, hospitals, and laboratories, to name only a few.

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News Introducing SMACNA’s Round Industrial Duct Construction App

Round industrial duct construction calculations just got a whole lot easier for SMACNA members.

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News It’s okay to brag a little. Tell us about your industrial projects!

Are you working on a large-scale industrial project or performed service work on a certain plant? We want to know about it—and it could be featured in SMACNA’s Industrial Insights newsletter.

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News Basic design factors to consider for welded joints

Many factors must be considered for welded joint design in the sheet metal industry. The basic factors of size, type of weld, edge preparation, metal thickness, reinforcement members, and distortion are the most prevalent.

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Report Comparison of Local Industrial Addenda

This report is based upon (21) Local Industrial Addenda on file at SMACNA's Labor Relations Department.

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