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Shaping Tomorrow's Global Built Environment Today
December 11, 2025
Trane Technologies recently announced that it entered into an agreement to acquire a leading provider of turnkey liquid-to-chip data center cooling solutions. This acquisition bolsters Trane's offerings with regards to modular cooling plants, central utility plants and coolant distribution units for liquid-cooled data centers and other complex corporate enterprises. Read more
Two industrial designers from Zurich University of the Arts have built a stackable brick-based system that can cool the air at bus stops, schoolyards and plazas without using electricity from the grid. Seeking to solve the issue of urban heat islands, the researchers created bloc°. Their design uses 3D printed terracotta, a porous fired clay that naturally soaks up water, to form the outer shell of each cooling unit. Read more
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The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation last week rescinded its National Definition of a Zero Emissions Building. Per a Federal Register notice, the definition has been identified as "guidance document that does not align with Administration priorities." Originally published by DOE in June of 2024, the definition established discretionary standards for energy efficiency, on-site emissions from energy use, and consumption from “clean” energy sources. Read more
For millions of Americans, staying indoors offers little protection from dangerous air pollution, according to a new Stanford University-led study. The paper reveals that gas and propane stoves expose people to substantial amounts of nitrogen dioxide, but replacing gas stoves with electric reduces nitrogen dioxide exposure by over a quarter on average across the U.S. and by half for the heaviest stove users. Read more
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Join host Badri Patel along with guests Fernando Dutra Del Castillo, Kimberly Pierson and Patricia Young as they discuss the process behind ASHRAE certifications and the value of these certifications in advancing careers and setting industry standards in the HVAC industry.
 
 
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ASHRAE Journal
By Yuka Mutoh, Kentaro Kimura, Yasunori Akashi, Ph.D. and Shin-ichi Tanabe, Ph.D.
Takasago Thermal Engineering Innovation Center—with a gross floor area of 11,763.97 m2 (126,626 ft2) including 4,757 m2 (51,204 ft2) of office space—is a research facility aiming to be a zero-energy building. Groundwater heat exchange, gasified wood biomass heat and a power supply system (or biomass combined heat and power and photovoltaic panels (200 kW) were adopted to utilize local renewable energy sources. Download here
 
ASHRAE News
The technical program for the 2026 ASHRAE Winter Conference is now available online and in the ASHRAE 365 app. View the sessions, technically focused committee meetings, and social events to start building your schedule for Las Vegas. Read more
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The U.S. White House has launched the Genesis Mission, a plan to feed scientific federal government datasets into artificial intelligence models. The Department of Energy-led project is meant to create and train AI agents and scientific foundation models to speed up scientific progress. Read more
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