Sentences with phrase «director at efficiency»
In a recent legislative update, Charles Cormany, executive director at Efficiency First California, a trade group representing home performance contractors, wrote, «this proposal was heavily opposed, mostly from the Southern California Gas Company, and is now effectively dead.»
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Since he took over as worldwide managing director in July, he's launched a dozen internal initiatives, ranging from cost - cutting measures (at a firm notorious for not taking its own efficiency medicine) to a new focus on marketing (a word that, by Barton's own account, draws gasps of horror at McKinsey).
All good things about passive ETFs — liquidity, transparency, tax efficiency, low cost — are even greater with an active manager in the ETF vehicle,» says Scott Burns, director of ETF research at Morningstar, in Chicago.
He served as Director of Markets at the London Stock Exchange PLC (LSE) and Head of its Alternative Investment Market (AIM), where he led the exchange's transformational growth strategy focused on driving market efficiency and resulting in a fivefold increase in market size.
«The established standard for grit removal has been 95 per cent removal at 250 microns, so achieving the same removal efficiency at 105 microns (140 mesh) sets an entirely new benchmark,» said Michael Bambridge, Managing Director of CST Wastewater Solutions.
We asked five experts who could help us break down a typical shopping trip: Bon Appétit senior food editor Dawn Perry; environmental psychologist and author of ** What Women Want: The Science of Female Shopping ** Paco Underhill; architect and supermarket designer Kevin Kelley, of the firm Shook Kelley; the director of the graduate nutrition program at the Institute of Human Nutrition at Columbia University, Sharon Akabas; and efficiency expert Gwynnae Byrd.
Cuomo, who has talked of the need for major efficiencies at the City University of New York, has nominated his budget director, Robert Mujica, and powerful public relations consultant and longtime family friend Ken Sunshine for spots on the CUNY Board of Trustees.
Neil Bentley, director of public services at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), added: «Driving greater efficiency should be intrinsic to the business of government, not for the sake of grabbing headlines but to achieve a culture of continuous improvement in service delivery.»
State Medicaid Director Jason Helgerson, however, testified at a state budget hearing in Albany the cost shift could be avoided if «efficiencies» are found ahead of the budget approval.
Deborah Grantham, Assistant Director for Environment & Natural Resources at the Cornell Cooperative Extension, said, «Cornell Cooperative Extension regards on - farm energy efficiency as a crucial element of energy planning for New York State and in ensuring agricultural sustainability and profitability.
«All of our coal - fired power plants, none of them can meet those efficiency standards,» said Melanie Hart, one of the report's authors and director of China policy at CAP.
Wider access to air conditioning (AC) could have prevented many deaths — but only 8 % of India's 249 million households have AC, Saurabh Diddi, director of India's Bureau of Energy Efficiency in New Delhi, noted at the World Sustainable Development Summit there last month.
The data analysed in the study was processed using an advanced life - cycle assessment tool — SCEnAT — developed by Professor Lenny Koh, Director of the Advanced Resource Efficiency Centre at the University's Management School and co-author of the paper.
Alexander Karsner, assistant secretary for energy efficiency and renewable energy, and John Tuccillo, director of the Green Grid, which represents 92 information technology companies and professionals seeking to lower the overall consumption of power in data centers, announced the deal during a press conference at the New York Stock Exchange.
Implementing key policies and investments in those three systems — from phasing out fossil fuels to stopping deforestation to ramping up energy efficiency — could deliver at least half of the emissions cuts needed by 2030 to lower the risk of dangerous climate change, said Jeremy Oppenheim, the report's program director.
«What Thailand has done places them at the forefront of energy conservation and energy efficiency in the developing world,» says Mark Cherniak, director of the Asian office of the International Institute of Energy Conservation, a nongovernmental organisation based in Washington DC.
«By working through each step so carefully, these researchers demonstrated a level of performance and efficiency that people did not think was possible at this point,» said Berkeley Lab chemist Frances Houle, JCAP deputy director for Science and Research Integration, who was not part of the study.
«We are to promote energy efficiency,» says Thom Kelly, acting chief deputy director at the CEC.
«The use of tiny cells for efficiency testing has prompted some to question comparison of perovskite solar cells with other established photovoltaic technologies,» said Nitin Padture, professor of engineering at Brown, director of Brown's Institute for Molecular and Nanoscale Innovation, and one of the senior authors of the new research.
Ms. Estes is on the Board of Directors at Microvi Biotechnologies, a member of the Iteris Performance Analytics Advisory Council and an appointed member of the Biomass R&D Technical Advisory Committee at the US Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
A team led by Donald Ingber, Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Founding Director of Harvard's Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering, now reports a solution to this challenge in Nature Biomedical Engineering, which enables the differentiation of human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells into mature podocytes with more than 90 percent efficiency.
Iranian director Farhadi opens Cannes with a film that explores the unhealed wound at the heart of a Spanish family with pitiless efficiency and sheer muscular flair
In 1979, Rod Hardy was already a veteran of many TV shows, and the efficiency and tight scheduling of the small screen helped the director deliver a «scope film with a solid cast that includes David Hemmings (himself having also directed a handful of films in Australia at the time) and veteran character actor Henry Silva (an actor with one imposing, balloon - like melon).
The director had studied history in university, then had positions at Arthur Anderson and several local authorities before being selected to direct the nation's education efficiency.
Pascal Eveillard, deputy vice president for sustainable development and director for sustainable habitat at Saint - Gobain, said: «Buildings in general, and schools in particular, need to be designed and built for the wellbeing of each of us, while addressing the challenges of resource efficiency and climate change.»
As the assistant director / curriculum director of the Montana Digital Academy (MTDA), I'm pleased that a new study from REL Northwest looking at the population of students who take our courses and their rates of success confirms something we've known for a while: Online credit recovery programs bring many efficiencies — particularly to a state as large and demographically dispersed as Montana — but an extremely important element for student success is the personalized support students receive from caring adults on both sides of the computer screen.
«There are benefits of ETFs, including transparency and tax efficiency, but those come at a cost, which is that is you must be willing to trade,» says Dave Nadig, director of ETFs at FactSet Research Systems.
As Jeanne Caples, director of operations at Forever Stainless Steel, says, «Spending less time on bath efficiency is a win - win for everyone, including the dog.»
Ellen Dunham - Jones, the director of the architecture program at the Georgia Institute of Technology, told me the project potentially signaled a real shift in the Persian Gulf, which until recently has been focused more on architectural flamboyance than energy efficiency and the like.
Eberhard Paul, the founder and former Managing Director at Paul Warmerruckgewinnung in Germany, has coordinated with engineers at PHI to develop this standard, and to confirm that the inputs are consistent and reliable in determining that the resultant efficiency used for the PHPP reflect actual energy recovery and usage.
In a story about the weakening of fuel efficiency standards Fast Company quotes Don Anair, research and deputy director for the clean vehicles program at UCS who explains that the new standards would increase emissions and lower requirements in the future.
After years of amazing community activism from local parents, business owners, residents, citizen groups, and community leaders, last week the Omaha Public Power District (OPPD) Board of Directors voted unanimously to approve plans to not only phase out the use of coal at its North Omaha coal - fired power plant, but also to ramp up energy efficiency.
«This is radically anti-consumer and, ironically, at odds with the grid modernization recommendations of the CES that want to explore integrating smart meters, efficiency and demand response, storage, solar, and other customer - sited resources for numerous grid benefits, including peak - demand management,» said Bill Dornbos, advocacy director and senior attorney for the regional environmental group Acadia Center, which in December spearheaded a statement of principles by energy and environmental activists.
We've heard that a director at the Department of Agriculture advised her team that carbon - sequestration and greenhouse - gas reduction should instead be described as «building soil organic matter» and «increasing nutrient use efficiency.»
«Denmark has been a pioneer in promoting energy efficiency and renewable energy,» said Claude Mandil, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), today in Copenhagen at the launch of Energy Policies of IEA Countries — Denmark 2006 Review.
In announcing his appointment, IEA Executive Director Maria van der Hoeven said that Mr. Millard's work at DECC «resulted in the production of quality data meeting both national and international needs, as well as establishing new approaches for monitoring energy efficiency policies, improving the timeliness of data, e.g. quarterly renewables data, and new analysis such as diversity measures in oil and gas imports».
Before DECC, Mr. Millard's managerial experience included the reform and modernisation of statistics in the States of Jersey and, as Director of Energy Statistics and Energy Efficiency at the UK Department of Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, work on the development of the understanding of options to decarbonise heat use that ultimately led to new government policies.
«We want to demonstrate that energy efficiency does not need to be at odds with a typical suburban neighborhood,» said NIST director and Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology Patrick Gallagher at the ribbon - cutting ceremony.
«Including energy efficiency in a cap - and - trade bill is essential because energy efficiency provides «avoided tons» of greenhouse gases at the lowest cost,» stated Steven Nadel, the coalition's coordinator and also the Executive Director of the American Council for an Energy - Efficient Economy (ACEEE).
«We understand that legal departments must perform at the speed of business, which means they must constantly find new ways to improve efficiency,» says Wes Gillette, Director of Product Management for CounselLink.
«We're constantly striving to innovate with new ideas and products so we can provide additional value and efficiencies to our clients,» said Chuck Baldwin, Managing Director at Ogletree Deakins, an international labor and employment law firm.
«Insurers have shifted their competitive focus to improving communication, process efficiency, and being easier to work with as a way to solidify and grow their business,» said Valerie Monet, director of the insurance practice at J.D. Power.
Chen came up with the idea behind EchoLink while serving as the founding engineering director at a NYSE mobile technology company, where he saw the opportunity to create efficiency and value by storing data around engineering graduates» degrees on the Blockchain.
Dan Forbes - Pepitone, Director of Talent and Capability at Skanska UK, said: «Working with Hays Talent Solutions we have developed an effective solution that will not only bring significant savings to Skanska but will also standardise the way we bring temporary workers in to Skanska — this means assured compliance, greater efficiency for hiring managers, improved reporting and will have a positive impact both for the business and the individuals who work for us on a temporary basis.»
«My main goals are to bring the department to a high level of efficiency and utilization, and to provide quality information technology services to our customers in a timely manner,» said Vinh Nguyen, Executive Director of Information Technology at PreCheck.
Two Kings Tickets (New York, NY) 07/2006 — 12/2007 Director of Business Development / Partner • Authored business plan, launched, and grew corporate sales from $ 0 to $ 500,000 in first year • Created marketing plans and sales goals focused on acquisition of corporate concierge services and social clubs • Negotiated deal to acquire over $ 400,000 of inventory at a discounted rate, saving the company over $ 100,000 • Mentored partners on best practices of establishing business goals focusing on efficiency and revenue growth • Worked with VIP Desk to increase revenue from secondary ticket sales through increased focus on customer service • Designed and implemented a targeted direct marketing program to enhance and better focus sales initiatives • Managed sale of company and assets to investors
Through her role as Senior Project Director at Education Development Center, Mary is involved in developing and managing Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) work to advance efficiency, effectiveness and capacity of systems supporting infants, young children and their families.
«We commend and congratulate Lincoln Property Company for taking this important step to improve Atlanta's energy and water efficiency,» said Lauren Dufort, director of sustainability at Central Atlanta Progress.
«We build to this scale because we can offer efficiencies,» says David Douglass, senior director of community affairs at Erickson.
With Chris Scott, director of marketing at GoodLife Realty and president of The Paperless Agent, by his side, Wise is on a mission to increase the level of efficiency within the buying and selling process so that real estate professionals can ultimately sell more homes, providing consumers with a better experience.