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Fifty employees at multiple Elliott-Lewis locations signed up to participate in Get Walking!, the six-month long program that utilizes the Walking Works web site of health-partner Independence Blue Cross .  In addition to organized walks over the lunch hour Monday,Wednesday and Friday, participants are encouraged to walk whenever they can and record their steps on pedometers they received in their registration kit.  Also included in that kit were maps of local walking paths and trails near the Black Lake Place office. Walkers who complete their goal for the month are qualified to win a $25 VISA gift card drawn at random each month with more prizes slated for the end of the program in November.

Fran McDonald, Barb Clark, Carolynn Kelly and Linda Horocofsy delivered a check for $5,000 from Elliott-Lewis to Ronald McDonald after manning the phone bank at the 5th annual Ronald McDonald House Charities Telethon hosted by CBS 3 and CW Philly on March 25, 2014. Can you spot the ladies of Elliott-Lewis on set fielding calls as they collect funds for Ronald McDonald House Charities?

Violation notices went out to any building required to Benchmark its energy and water use on January 15th and fines start on February 15.  If you received a violation notice - Elliott-Lewis recommends you find help here.

Rob Komoroski (holding toy crane) led the effort to collect toys for SPIN (Special People In the Northeast).  Elliott-Lewis office staff gathered to present 70 toys to Megan Forrestal (to left of Rob) when SPIN came to the office to collect the gifts from beneath Elliott-Lewis' tree.

Philadelphia International Airport has been nominated as one of the nation's best airports for art. Elliott-Lewis' facility management division operates the airport facilities, including hanging temporary exhibits that are placed throughout the airport. Please cast your vote for PHL here http://www.10best.com/awards/travel/best-u-s-airports-for-art/

Great News!!!! The long anticipated Department of Energy (DOE) study of the CATALYST has been publicly released. Most of you know that the DOE commissioned the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to evaluate the potential energy saving benefit from retrofitting existing Rooftop Packaged Units (RTU’s) with “advanced controls”. The study found that the CATALYST achieved an average HVAC energy savings of 57%. While we cannot guarantee every customer will see this level of savings, the report was based on field tests of 66 RTU’s retrofitted with the CATALYST across four different climate zones, serving varying facility types. The PNNL considered our competitors and selected the CATALYST for the two-year study. The CATALYST was chosen based on its comprehensive features and product “maturity”. You can view the full report here. Elliott-Lewis is the exclusive affiliate for the Catalyst Converter in this area.

Jon Rogers installs a Catalyst Energy Enhacing Controller to one of the rooftop units at Elliott-Lewis' Black Lake Place Headquarters. The new web-based system provides a cost-effective way to add real-time energy consumption monitoring to existing rooftop, constant volume package units.  Rear more about it at http://elliottlewis.com/catalyst-controller.html For a live demonstration of the system at work, contact your salesperson or Matt Sutherland at msutherland@elliottlewis.com

Four student interns will be joining Elliott-Lewis for the 2013-2014 school year through the Cristo Ray Work Study program. See http://www.cristoreyphiladelphia.org/page.cfm?p=1 Each student will each work five days per month in a job-sharing program at Elliott-Lewis’ Black Lake Place headquarters.  The students have trained at Cristo Ray this summer to be ready to begin their internships on September 3.  Over their four years in the Cristo Ray Philadelphia High School program they will gain the benefits of practical work application before graduating from the college-preparatory program.  In return Job Sponsors like Elliott-Lewis contribute a large portion of these students’ tuition in payment for the work they do.

Seventeen student interns from nine area schools started their Summer Internship training today at Elliott-Lewis. Four of the interns are returning for their second year, including two who reported directly to their new jobs.  Interns will work in the corporate office at Black Lake Place or at one of Elliott-Lewis' Facilities Maintenance client locations until August 16th. Part of their orientation was a tour of Black Lake Place, including the office of  Bill Sautter, CEO, who welcomed them to Elliott-Lewis. According to Elliott-Lewis' Director of Community Outreach, Steve Jones, who led the orientation, "We have a great group of students this year who are looking forward to learning about how a business really operates. Hopefully some of them will decide to pursue a career in HVAC or facilities management and will help build the future of our industry."  

Left to Right: Ronald McDonald, Karen Clifford, Fran McDonald,Carolynn Kelly, Barb Clark and CBS 3 newscaster Pat Chiarrocchi.Photo Courtesy of Fresh Focus Photography. Elliott-Lewis volunteers presented a check to Ronald McDonald House of Philadelphia at the charity's recent telethon and manned the phone banks during the televised event.