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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) The Indianapolis Home Show is full of products designed to make your home more comfortable and energy efficient.

The folks at Godby Heating Plumbing and Electrical say installing the next generation of programmable thermostats is a good place to start.

People who have put this thermostat in, they dont go to their thermostat anymore. They control their home by their smart phone, said Godby HPE Vice President Kevin Greisl.

The smart device even learns your comfort preferences.

Over time it adjusts temperatures to keep you comfortable and save energy.

It can monitor your sump pump, it can monitor your furnace. So if there is anything running or not running that is supposed to it will let you know that right there on the spot, Geisl said.

The thermostat costs around $300 installed.

From heating your home, to heating your water, a company called Grundfos offers a hot water pump designed to save you money and time.

This ensures that when you turn on that hot water in the morning your shower is hot you can step right in, said Fred Bock, Grundos vice president of Marketing.

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Kincardine council found few savings in the 2014 capital budget at the second round of budget talks on Jan. 20.

Of the long list of high-priority projects identified by municipal staff, council scrapped just one: a new $7,500 microphone system for the council chamber.

The most contentious item discussed on the list was the $1.449 million to make repairs to the municipal administrative centre, which staff recommend be funded through an Infrastructure Ontario loan.

Councillor Mike Leggett motioned to defer the work until council can see a real estate assessment and consider relocation.

I would like a lot more information before we spend this much money on this building, he said, but acknowledged repairs to the heating and cooling system at the building are needed immediately.

The expenses to operate this building are huge, said Leggett. The expenses to repair this place are huge, and it is larger than what we need.

I would be shocked if you would find anywhere that would serve us nearly as good as this building, said Mayor Larry Kraemer, but Im not ready to spend $1.4 million on repairs either.

Chief Administrative Officer Murray Clarke said council could conduct only the most pressing repairs to the buildings exterior and HVAC system budgeted at $1.282 million.

Clarke said sealing the exterior skin of the building to prevent water infiltration and replacing the HVAC system were vital to its continued use and protecting its resale value.

Its a wonderful building, said Clarke. Its practical and serves the purpose. I think it is a good investment.

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Henderson, NV (KTNV) -- Construction is underway on a 10,000 square foot office building in Cadence.

Cadence is a 2,200-acre community in Henderson, which is located off Lake Mead Parkway, east of Boulder Highway.

The first floor of the office building will serve as the Cadence marketing center, which will anchor the new community. It will feature interactive kiosks that home buyers can use to learn more about the community and its amenities, see floor plans and view renderings.

The marketing center will open this summer.

Home sales in Cadence will also begin this summer. The community is located near downtown Henderson and McCarran International Airport.

The community will include 13,250 residential units, 450 acres of open space, which includes a 50-acre central park, 100-acre sports park and 30 acres of trails.

The trails will interconnect with regional trails such as the Las Vegas Wash Trail and the River Mountains Loop Trail.

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Good daylight inside a building can be a major mood and productivity enhancer. Other times, it can cause uncomfortable glare or heat, drive up energy costs, or simply require ugly blinds.

What if you could get the best of both worlds? Thats the proposition of the smart glass technology that is just starting to be incorporated into the design for commercial office buildings, hospitals, universities, and other large building spaces. Its one of those small innovations that could really change how people feel inside their workplaces.

View, a Silicon Valley company that has its first production facility in Mississippi, just raised $100 million in financing to continue to expand its business. Its Dynamic Glass works like sunglasses that change tint with the light. The product consists of an electrochromic coating sandwiched between two layers of glass. The window looks clear from the inside, but changes to four tint levels on the outside based on the sunlight and user preferences, or in response to manual directions from a control panel or smartphone app.

Since putting its first product on the commercial market in 2012, View has developed 50 projects in North America. Notably, it has managed to increase the panel size it can produce, so that it works for big atriums in fancy office buildings as well as for smaller windows. Those 50 installations, some are small, some medium, and some very large, says View CEO Rao Mulpuri. That sends a message that were ready for the mainstream.

While Views glass still costs more than regular or statically tinted glass, the company says its use shaves 20% off of annual lighting, heating, cooling, and ventilation costs in a typical commercial installation. It can also save in construction costs for a building owner, who might be able to make due with a small cooling system or no blinds and shades. (And Mulpuri says the price will continue to come down as production increases; Views collaboration with the high-tech glass giant Corning could also help this along.)

The benefits of the glass could go beyond being greener and saving money over time. Businesses like the W Hotel in San Francisco and hospitals and health centers, for example, have installed the dynamic glass because of an interest in boosting the mood for guests and patients. Theres a lot of our well-being tied to [windows and buildings], which then impacts our happiness and certainly our productivity, says Mulpuri.

Dan Pickett, a partner at the architecture firm Moody Nolan, is in the midst of his second project using Views glass, the CenturyLink Technology Center, an 800-employee office building now under construction in Louisiana. The glass made sense as a design element for the headquarters of a client in the tech and communications sector, but Pickett also anticipates it will save energy and improve the mood of the visitors center--a tall space with glass on three sides that sometimes gets too much sunlight in the late afternoon.

He says that now that View can manufacture large pieces of glass, there isnt much of a limitation on incorporating it into buildings, besides cost considerations. And awareness among designers will continue to grow (View isnt the only company pursuing the smart building glass market, but its among the most advanced).

This is still a very new technology. Because of the cost, not every client is going to take a look at it. Once people see the benefits of using View glass, and how it will positively affect the performance of the building over time, I think well see that start to change, says Pickett.

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A development group that includes local office suite operator Yeager Properties is working on plans for a $17.5 million mixed-use building and parking garage in downtown Fishers.

Fishers Urban Development LLC is negotiating a project agreement with the town, which owns the targeted propertya shuttered KFC at 116th Street and Lantern Road next door to Yeagers Fishers Office Suites.

Plans call for a three-story, 50,000-square-foot building with retail on the first floor and medical-office uses above, said partner Scott Baldwin of residential brokerage Baldwin Cos. The attached parking garage would replace an existing surface lot south of the office suites and be shared by tenants in both buildings.

Fishers Town Council is expected to vote Monday on a proposal that calls for the town to contribute the KFC property and $6 million for the 330-space garage, which likely also would be available for public parking.

The site is just a few blocks east of The Depot at Nickel Plate, a $42 million apartment-and-retail project that Flaherty & Collins Properties is building with help from the town. Fishers contributed land in its municipal complex and about $11 million in tax-increment financing toward a 430-space garage there.

Parking is a key component in town leaders effort to build a bustling downtown that will draw residents and businesses alike, creating an identity for the community and diversifying its tax base.

"The consideration of this proposal is exciting to the town because it confirms that momentum is building for our vision of a great downtown in our community," Town Manager Scott Fadness said in an email.

Indeed, economic development leaders have said for months that several such deals are in the works.

As IBJ reported in September, officials have been working on plans to redevelop the Fishers Train Station site, and the town already has lined up a tenant for a future office building there. Digital marketing firm BlastMedia is expected to occupy 10,000 square feet on its third floor if the building is complete within two years.

And in December, Fishers-based construction firm Meyer Najem said it would move its headquarters into a $5.5 million office building its planning on town-owned land across the railroad tracks from the Fishers Public Library. The town promised to lease the top floor and sublease the space to high-potential companies that need flexible lease terms.

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