PDC Summit 2017 is here! The PDC Summit is a dynamic industry event coordinated by a trusted network of not-for-profit organizations with expertise in health care planning, design, and construction. SEA will participate in this year’s event being held March 12-15 at the Orange County Convention Center, in Orlando, Florida. SEA has provided energy management services for over…
Birmingham, AL – Sain Engineering Associates, Inc. (SEA), provider of energy management and consulting services, announced the promotion of Brenda Phillips to President and Chief Operating Officer. She will have the primary responsibility of managing day to day operations and initiatives to support the company’s operating principles of “Serve Our Clients, Fulfill Our People and…
We say it all the time, but it’s wonderful to be affirmed: SEA has top notch REMs. Congratulations to Hossam Kassab and the team at Fort Irwin, and Tony Karwoski and the Fort Meade team for winning 2016 Secretary of the Army Awards! Their efforts in successfully garnering new technology projects have led to their installations receiving…
If you aren’t turning off and unplugging office equipment at night, using the double-sided feature on the printer, or utilizing power management software on your computer, you aren’t taking every possible measure to lower energy consumption in your business space. The age of your equipment matters as well—it may still work, but it also may…
by SEA Energy Engineer, Ed Saleem The difference between today’s LED lamps and incandescent lights is like when the black and white TVs were replaced by color TV’s. Now most TV’s have high definition LED screens and lighting is on the verge of becoming that sophis ticated as well. LED lighting, which stands for “Light…
SEA’s Chairman and CEO, Steve Sain, was recently acknowledged among BHM BIZ‘s “BHM 205”: a list of influential business leaders in the Birmingham area. From the magazine: “[Sain] is an international award-winning consulting engineer with over 25 years of experience in energy efficiency regarding existing facilities of virtually all functions and sizes throughout the United…
SEA will be participating in the Energy 2016 Symposium, held here, in Birmingham, AL! The event will take place November 7 – 10. Attendees will benefit from interactive learning opportunities and technology demonstrations that illustrate how to renovate, operate and maintain facilities to reduce energy consumption. Training sessions will be led and moderated by subject…
Turn the faucet on, and water comes out. This makes business possible for nearly every industry on the planet. Yet water is a commodity becoming more widely used—and more widely unavailable—than ever before. It takes the equivalent of 70 loads of laundry to manufacture a laptop computer. The average hospital uses about 315 gallons of…
Health care facilities consume large amounts of energy and produce high levels of waste. Eight percent of carbon emissions in the United States come from healthcare. From heart monitors to CT scanners to lifesaving equipment kept at full power 24 hours a day so they can be used at a moment’s notice, administrators often worry that…