CHPLE

Affiliates to the CHPLE include public sector organizations, corporations, professional societies and associations, architectural and engineering firms and school districts. These affiliates play an integral role in support of the vision and mission for the CHPLE. Public sector partnerships, such as with the USEPA's Labs 21 Program, help support the CHPLE mission by providing a forum for information exchange. Corporate affiliates such as with the National Roofing Contractors Association help prioritize tasks and structure the CHPLE research agenda while providing both direct and indirect support to student researchers. Partnerships with professional societies and associations such as Council for Educational Facility Planners International (CEFPI) provide a connection to practitioners for surveys, outreach, research support and information exchange. Affiliations with architectural and engineering firms also provide a connection to practitioners as well as interactions on design issues such as those involved with schools or modular construction, while providing practical opportunities for research results.

The university generated $321.7 million for research programs in fiscal year 2006. Each year, Virginia Tech receives significant external support for research, instruction, Extension, and public service projects. In the most recent fiscal year (2005-06), the university received 2,122 awards to conduct research. Support for these projects originates from an ever-expanding base of sponsors. Today, nearly 775 sponsors fund more than 3,500 active projects. Researchers pursue new discoveries in agriculture, biotechnology, information and communication technology, transportation, energy management (including leadership in fuel-cell technology and power electronics), and a wide range of other engineering, scientific, social science, and creative fields. This research led to 87 disclosures, 17 patents, and 20 licenses in calendar year 2005.

The Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center offers opportunities for businesses to establish close working relationships with the university and nurtures entrepreneurs with new inventions and developments. Located on 120 acres adjacent to the main campus, the center consists of 21 buildings housing more than 130 companies with approximately 1,900 employees.

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Labs 21

Labs 21facilities represent an ever-expanding growth opportunity for advanced, environmentally preferred, building technologies. The typical laboratory, for example, uses far more energy and water per square foot than the typical office building due to intensive ventilation requirements and other health and safety concerns. Because the requirements of laboratories and related high performance facilities differ so dramatically from those of other buildings, a clear need exists for an initiative exclusively targeting these facilities.

The primary guiding principle of the Labs21 approach is that improving the energy efficiency and environmental performance of these facilities requires examining the entire facility from a "whole building" perspective. Adopting this perspective allows owners to improve the efficiency of the entire facility, rather than focusing on specific building components. As Labs21 participants understand, improving the efficiency of individual components without examining their relation to the entire system can eliminate opportunities to make other more significant efficiency improvements.

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Department of Energy

The Department of Energy's overarching mission is to advance the national, economic, and energy security of the United States; to promote scientific and technological innovation in support of that mission; and to ensure the environmental cleanup of the national nuclear weapons complex. The Department's strategic goals to achieve the mission are designed to deliver results along five strategic themes:

1. Energy Security: Promoting America’s energy security through reliable, clean, and affordable energy

2. Nuclear Security: Ensuring America’s nuclear security.

3. Scientific Discovery and Innovation: Strengthening U.S. scientific discovery, economic competitiveness, and improving quality of life through innovations in science and technology

4. Environmental Responsibility: Protecting the environment by providing a responsible resolution to the environmental legacy of nuclear weapons production

5. Management Excellence: Enabling the mission through sound management.

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Council for Educational Facility Planners International

The Council for Educational Facility Planners is the advocate for excellence in student learning environments. Research has proven that there is an integral relationship between the quality of educational facilities and the level of student achievement.

CEFPI believes that:

* Facilities impact the learning, development and behavior of the facility user;
* The planning process is essential for quality facilities;
* Sharing and networking improves the planning process; and
* There is a standard by which to measure.

World-class educational facilities require the leadership of qualified and professional educators, planners, architects, and construction professionals. Since 1921, CEFPI has served this portion of the education community as the international umbrella organization linking the professional efforts of these experts in developing creative learning environments.

The Council continues to be the preeminent educational facilities planning organization, bringing these constituencies together and providing strategic leadership, and member value in several critical areas:

1. Serving as a growing, diverse, participative organization.

2. Continuing to be a cutting-edge resource communicating knowledge through effective mediums and technologies.

3. Striving to be the leading provider of education and training for educational facility planners.

4. Leading the education community in promoting, partnering, collecting and disseminating research.

5. Continuing to be recognized as the advocate for, and authority on, educational facility planning.

6. And, finally, to be a financially viable organization that is governed and managed in support of the strategic plan and vision.

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Rebuilding America

Our Mission is to highlights the development of United State Country. After the attack on World Trade Centre many changes tooke place in U.S. There are so many missions are going on by the Government of U.S.A. to rebuild the America.

The United Nations development Programme (UNDP) is the world's largest agency for multilateral, technical and pre-investment cooperation. The United Nations International children?s emergency Fund (UNICEF) aims to improve the quality of life for children and mothers in developing countries.

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From jet engines to power generation, financial services to plastics, and medical imaging to news and information, GE people worldwide are dedicated to turning imaginative ideas into leading products and services that help solve some of the world's toughest problems.

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United Solar Ovonic

United Solar Ovonic, a wholly owned subsidiary of ECD Ovonics, by building upon the technology invented and pioneered by ECD Ovonics, has become the world leader in thin-film amorphous photovoltaics (PV) technology and commercial applications.

United Solar Ovonic’s first football-field long proprietary continuous web triple-junction solar cell manufacturing machine — designed and built by ECD Ovonics’ Production Technology and Machine Building Division — is operating at its full-rated capacity and is considered the world’s largest and most advanced machine for manufacture of thin-film amorphous silicon alloy solar cells and related products used in a variety of applications.

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3M is a diversified technology company serving customers and communities with innovative products and services. Each of our seven businesses has earned leading global market positions.

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Greentec is a world leader in reverse logistics and a trusted, reliable third party service provider. We specialize in the collection and recycling of e-waste items such as printer cartridges, cell phones, consumer electronics, computers, peripherals and more.

Each year we collect millions of used print cartridges and cell phones. We sort, inspect and prepare them for remanufacturing. Providing the means to reuse electronics makes a world of difference for our customers and for the environment.

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TingWall™ by Advanced Building Systems Inc.
Advanced Building Systems is a design and engineering firm formed around the development by Dr. Raymond M. Ting of a revolutionary new curtainwall technology. Dr. Ting is a Professional Engineer with over 30 years experience and is one of the world's leading experts in the field of structural integrity in severe weather conditions. His invention of TingWall™, as this new technology is called, signals a new age in curtainwall design.

While TingWall™ is cost competitive with so-called "Stick" systems, it outperforms the most sophisticated "Unitized" and "Rain Screen" systems. Until now, improvements in curtainwall design have centered on unsuccessful attempts at developing perfect seals and multiple defenses against inevitable leakage. The result of this approach is that virtually every conventional curtainwall will leak - it is only a matter of when, where and what it will cost to fix.

Utilizing Dr. Ting's innovative "Airloop Principle," TingWall™ neutralizes the effects of both wind and rain, by separating the functions of sealing air and sealing water. The result is a curtainwall system that can tolerate imperfect seals anywhere in the system and still not leak. In test after test, TingWall™ has far surpassed the most rigorous AAMA standards. Add to this, the ability of the TingWall™ System to handle seismic and wind motion that would destroy a conventional system, the flexibility to use multiple facing materials without boundary problems, plus superior safety, ease and speed of erection.

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Thermo Fisher Scientific (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader in serving science, enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. With annual sales of more than $9 billion, we employ 30,000 people and serve over 350,000 customers within pharmaceutical and biotech companies, hospitals and clinical diagnostic labs, universities, research institutions and government agencies, as well as environmental and industrial process control settings.

Serving customers through two premier brands, Thermo Scientific and Fisher Scientific, we help solve analytical challenges from routine testing to complex research and discovery. Thermo Scientific offers customers a complete range of high-end analytical instruments as well as laboratory equipment, software, services, consumables and reagents to enable integrated laboratory workflow solutions. Fisher Scientific provides a complete portfolio of laboratory equipment, chemicals, supplies and services used in scientific research, safety, healthcare and science education.

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CPM LABFAB, Inc.

CPM LABFAB, Inc. provides customers with industry-leading design, construction, and quality by teaming with leading engineering groups and third-party inspectors. All of their laboratory buildings are C.O.S. (Constructed Off-Site) at their plant with vigorous inspections and systems testing prior to shipment to the job site.

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Acrylife, Inc., is a manufacturer of premium-quality roofing systems that offer renewable architecture through proprietary elastomeric products, acrylic coatings, cold process applications and single-ply membranes. We are committed to developing innovative technologies to preserve aged asphalt, deteriorated metal, and a wide variety of single-ply membranes.

Acrylife roofing systems are designed specifically for low-sloped commercial and industrial roofs for both new and retrofit applications. The cold process built-up systems are used to recover aged asphalt, both smooth and gravel surface, along with modified Bitumen membranes. The elastomeric coatings including acrylic, and urethanes are used to recover rusted and leaking metal roofs and aged and deteriorated single-ply membranes. For new construction and recovery operations, Acrylife has a high quality FM and UL approved Thermoplastic reinforced PVC membrane.

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