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FIRE SAFETY – Calgary develops fire safety initiative for owners/operators.
The City of Calgary, Alberta, Canada’s Fire Department is establishing a program to inform foodservice owners and operators about new fire safety measures that address NFPA96 hood and exhaust cleaning requirements. Click here for the Full Story.
 

OWNERS & OPERATORS – Demand Ventilation study reports positive results!
A PG&E report prepared by Fisher-Nickel, Inc., has just released a fascinating case study of demand ventilation technology at the Intercontinental Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco. If you are interested in how this hotel is now savings $20,000 a year with a 62% reduction in electrical costs, follow the link for the full case study. See how the payback was less than a year with repeatable yearly savings projected. This is must read if you want to reduce expenses. http://www.fishnick.com/demandventilation/
 

NEW TECHNOLOGY – The self-balancing hood has arrived.
A recently announced breakthrough named “The Centurion” by its developer has been introduced to take charge of your new exhaust system at start up. Using a built-in test and balance port, this unique new approach to balancing an exhaust hood system employs a pressure signal to set the fan speed to run at the desired air flow rate. Click here for the Full Story.

 
EDUCATION – MAECO and NRA begin this week in Chicago.
On Wednesday evening, MAECO, the Multi-Unit Architects and Engineers bi-annual conference begins at the Millenium Knickerbocker Hotel in Chicago with a kick-off reception. A day and a half of presentations follow on Thursday through Friday morning.

CKV will be represented by four speakers. Don Fisher of Fisher-Nickel, Tom Johnson of Johnson Diversified Products, Derek Schrock of Halton and George Zawacki of UP YOUR STACK™ will each be making presentations regarding commercial kitchen ventilation.

On Saturday, May 21, 2005 the 86th annual NRA Show kicks off at McCormick Place along Chicago’s beautiful lake front. It runs for four full days through May 24. The hours are from 9:30 AM to5 PM each day.
 

PUBLISHER’S CORNER – We will be busy speaking the next few weeks.
On Thursday, May 19, UP YOUR STACK™ will address the members of MAECO, the Multi-unit Architects and Engineers Conference and discuss new CKV technologies. The next morning, May 20, we will speak to the Illinois Fire Inspectors Association about how our resources can assist them in their CKV inspections. On Monday, May 23, UP YOUR STACK™ will attend the NAFEM Technical Liaison Committee meeting being held at McCormick Place.

On Thursday, June 8, 2005, we will be presenting a 90 minute seminar titled “Finding the Missing Link” at the NFPA World Safety Conference in Las Vegas, NV.

While at NRA, call George at 847-977-2200 or Jay Parikh at 847-383-5088 (Office) or 847-477-8934 (Cell) if you would like to meet or discuss any of our newsletter items or if have topics you would like UP YOUR STACK™ to cover.
 

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WEBSITE FEATURES – SMACNA added to Codes & Standards Members database.
We recently posted the sixth database to the Codes & Standards area of our website. SMACNA was added on May 1 and is available to members for their use. The company store is almost ready to open. Addition of the store will allow members to order codes and standards directly from UP YOUR STACK™.com using your favorite credit card. We expect to open the store some time in June for your convenience.