Trane Offers Resource to Help Create High Performance Retail and Restaurant Environments
St. Paul, Minn., March 5, 2012 - Retail companies spend nearly $20 billion on energy each year. For the average retail store, decreasing energy costs by 10 percent can produce an effect equivalent to a sales increase of 1.26 percent.1
Trane, a leading global provider of indoor comfort systems and solutions and a brand of Ingersoll Rand, is offering a new website ─ www.trane.com/retail ─ to help stores and restaurants optimize the ambient factors that lead to higher sales in stores and restaurants: temperature control, humidity control and indoor air quality.
Trane will feature the new website at three upcoming conferences:
This easy-to-navigate site provides a great resource on the benefits of taking a high performance building approach, said Jack McNertney, senior director of facilities for Darden Restaurants, the world's largest full-service restaurant company. ―The case study examples clearly demonstrate how improving the physical environment of a store or restaurant can help drive business goals.
We believe these sites will provide a useful resource to the retail and restaurant community, said Greg DuChane, director of retail and restaurant market sales for Trane.
Our experience working with thousands of small and larger retailers, restaurateurs and grocers has given us a unique perspective on how a comfortable physical environment helps drive our customers' businesses. This tool allows us to share strategies on how users can improve performance while learning about the latest solutions.
The website offers strategies that retail and restaurant owners, architects, engineers and construction professionals can use to improve the physical environment in their stores and restaurants to create high performance buildings that tie the physical environment to their business missions.
Retail stores and restaurants that install new or upgrade to energy-efficient infrastructure systems link the physical environment of their facilities to their business objectives. This link represents a key step in the journey to create high performance stores and restaurants.
High performance buildings take a whole-building approach to performance while creating spaces that are reliable, safe, healthy and efficient. They meet specific standards for energy and water consumption, system reliability and uptime, environmental compliance and occupant comfort and other factors. All standards are set to deliver established outcomes that help stores and restaurants achieve their business missions.
Building owners and operators can also reduce their energy costs by 20-25 percent by taking a high performance building approach, according to the United States Green Building Council.
The new site provides information for customers on energy efficiency strategies, as well as new and innovative technologies from Trane such as the Total Kitchen HVAC (TKHVAC) solution for restaurants. This solution provides superior kitchen conditions using high-efficiency kitchen hoods with variable exhaust in combination with the Trane Total Outdoor Air Unit.
Other information offered on the new site includes:
Trane provides a full portfolio of energy efficient heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) solutions which include industry-leading technologies for creating comfortable and sustainable retail and restaurant environments. Trane offers a customized consultative approach to help retail stores and restaurants improve building performance and create a positive experience for their customers.
About Ingersoll Rand
Ingersoll Rand (NYSE:IR) is a world leader in creating and sustaining safe, comfortable and efficient environments in commercial, residential and industrial markets. Our people and our family of brands - including Club Car®, Ingersoll Rand®, Schlage®, Thermo King® and Trane® - work together to enhance the quality and comfort of air in homes and buildings, transport and protect food and perishables, secure homes and commercial properties, and increase industrial productivity and efficiency. Trane solutions optimize indoor environments with a broad portfolio of energy efficient heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems, building and contracting services, parts support and advanced control. Ingersoll Rand is a $14 billion global business committed to sustainable business practices. For more information, visit www.ingersollrand.com.
