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Using Medical Equipment Capital Planning Software To Transform Your Equipment Lifecycle.

According to a Moody’s Investor’s Service analysis,"Not-for-profit and public healthcare - US: Medians - Regional hospital medians mirror stress seen in national trends", operating margins for hospitals have fallen to an all-time low of 1.6%. Becke

Wally Lindeman faced a challenge common to many energy managers in grocery retail. An outside observer might say that over the years he’d made his job look too easy. Lindeman’s energy-saving work had not been easy, but the results he and his small team delivered were consistent and reliable over many years. The projects generated fast payback with low risk, little complication, and highly predicable results. Although it has been getting harder each year to repeat that performance,

Achieving Sustainability Goals with the Help of Verisae

Fresh & Easy is a $302 million US retail firm that committed itself to an ambitious climate change plan, outlined by its parent firm, Tesco. Founded in 2007, Fresh & Easy implemented a number of initiatives to make its stores and distribution centers the most energy and carbon efficient in the United States.

Faced with issues over energy and carbon data collection, emission baseli

How does this climate change order differ from Bush era orders?

It is said that the federal government is the largest consumer of energy in the United States. As such we can deduce that it is one of the biggest contributors to the problem of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and a significant contributor to the problem of global climate change.

The executive order on climate change was issued shortly after Obama took one of his first real steps onto the climate-related world stage

We`ve seen over the course of 2009 how difficult politics in Washington can be. There seems little doubt that everyone is now aware of the challenges that we face in relation to carbon emissions, greenhouse gases and climate change in general. Through our reliance on fossil fuels and thirst for energy, our civilization has caused significant damage to the natural environment.

Nevertheless, significant measures to cut back on energy consumption and to use market-based instruments to ef

Refrigerant leaks are one the highest maintenance expenses for organizations using or maintaining gas. In addition to compliance, management of refrigerant is important from a cost perspective. A typical 100-store supermarket chain operates with 400,000 lbs. of refrigerant within their refrigeration and air conditioning systems.

Assuming an average cost of $6 per pound, this equates to a $2.4 million asset. An average annual leak rate of 25% (many

Fresh & Easy uses Verisae`s energy, environmental and asset management soluti

Given the heightened priority of corporate sustainability, Verisae is positioned well to enable organizations to establish a carbon footprint baseline, outline energy management options, and provide a comprehensive corporate sustainability action plans.

Verisae delivered information the FMI Sustainability Task Force valuable carbon baseline information and “what-if scenario” reductions options with their associated ROI. This is being done in a

Tesco has seen numerous benefits of the Verisae platform over the past three years. The metrics listed are only a small portion of all products and services Tesco leverages across the full Verisae platform and across all Tesco plc international business operations.

• Reduction in duplicate service calls & manual processing ($300,000 annual savings)
• Identified inaccuracies in the asset data quality resulting in tax savings &