PROMOTION — Lennox’ patent-pending MSAV® supply fan technology helps reduce energy use while still meeting comfort requirements. Factory-installed on Lennox’ 7.5- to 25-ton Energence® rooftop unit models, the MSAV supply fan uses a variable frequency drive to lower airflow during part-load cooling, heating, ventilation and free cooling operation modes to dramatically reduce energy costs all year long.
Christopher Upton, who has joined Taylor as the firm’s new project director, is a Fellow of the American Academy of Medical Administrators, a member and Committee Chair of the Healthcare Design Guideline Committee for the American Hospital Association. He served as head of facilities for a children’s hospital in Atlanta and in a health care architecture practice in Houston, Texas. Upton earned his Bachelor of Architecture for Louisiana State University.
Armstrong Ceiling & Wall Systems added 14-inch and 16-inch high profiles to its family of Axiom Classic Perimeter ceiling trim. The new profiles are one-piece extrusions that eliminate the need to stack shorter profiles to attain the height dimension and eliminates any visible seam. Designed for straight applications, the new profiles can be used with suspended lay-in ceiling panels as an exposed decorative trim or as drywall trim for unique detailing and transition flexibility. They are compatible with all Armstrong exposed tee suspension systems and drywall grid systems.
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Architecture firm Shepley Bulfinch of Boston was selected to design the physician-led plan for a new Children’s Hospital of Buffalo on its Niagara campus in Western New York.
