HYFAB Hot Water System Is Winning Play for Downtown Knoxville Hotel

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The clock was ticking in more ways than one for the Holiday Inn in Downtown Knoxville, Tennessee this past August.

 With only weeks to go before the first 2012 home game between the University of Tennessee and Georgia State, the hotel was in the midst of a complete domestic hot water retrofit. 

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JMP Geothermal Donation Helps Make AIA North Carolina Center for Architecture & Design Part of Downtown Raleigh Landscape

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JMP Geothermal Donation Helps Make AIA North Carolina Center for Architecture & Design Part of Downtown Raleigh Landscape

By David Crawford, Executive Vice President of the AIA North Carolina Center for Architecture & Design in Raleigh, NC.

There are very few moments in one’s career when hindsight tells you, “I really did the right thing at that point.”  The North Carolina AIA’s decision to move forward with the building of our new Center for Architecture & Design in downtown Raleigh was one of them.   Against all odds, the building was completed just this winter, and stands as a testimony not only to sustainable building, but sheer will.  We were one of a few new construction projects that managed to survive the 2008/2009 financial crises.  And none of it would have been possible without the generous contributions from companies like James M. Pleasants Co. (JMP).

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JMP Receives Golden Circle Award for $10K Donation (Investment!) in ASHRAE Research

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JMP Receives Golden Circle Award for $10K Donation (Investment!) in ASHRAE Research


By Jamie Edmondson

JMP received a special honor while attending this year’s International Air-Conditioning Heating Refrigerating Exposition (AHR) in Chicago. We were presented with the Golden Circle Award by the ASHRAE Research Foundation at the President’s luncheon and award ceremony at the Palmer House Hotel. This award recognizes those companies who have contributed $10,000.00 or more to ASHRAE research.

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