The Wendy's Company is the world's third-largest quick-service hamburger company. The Wendy's® system includes approximately 6,500 franchise and company-operated restaurants in the United States and twenty-nine other countries and U.S. territories worldwide.

Collaboration with a national retailer leads to the development of a customized tool to integrate data and provide tailored building management across 600 locations, generating 20% energy and $5 million cost reduction annually.

The Neiman Marcus Group (NMG) partnered with Trane Technologies to revolutionize luxury retail and achieve ambitious sustainability goals. By replacing outdated absorption chillers with energy-efficient Trane electric chillers, NMG significantly decarbonized its iconic Bergdorf Goodman Women's Store in New York City.

Thermal storage system keeps shoppers comfortable, lowers utility rates, removes 1.6 megawatts of electricity from daytime grid • The Colony, TX Founded in 1937, Nebraska Furniture Mart has four locations in Omaha, NE; Des Moines, IA; Kansas City, KS; and The Colony, TX. The furniture retailer delivers to forty-seven states, and employs more than 5,000 people dedicated to improving customer lifestyles. Nebraska Furniture Mart's newest location, near Dallas, is part of a 500-acre site currently under development.

As Washington Fruit & Produce made plans to move their headquarters to an industrial business complex, the company laid out its objectives for the new building. Rather than an industrial look, owners sought a softer atmosphere for its offices. The new building would block nearby highways and surrounding industry from view, provide a quiet work environment, and conceal light switches, diffusers and ductwork for a seamless presentation. With a corporate commitment to being environment-friendly in all of its operations, energy efficiency was also a key objective for the building.

Founded in 2005, Shape Properties, a visionary real estate investment and development company based in Vancouver, BC, has become one of the most active fully integrated developers in Western Canada. With a vision of creating vibrant urban lifestyle destinations, Shape Properties dramatically transforms the interaction between living, shopping, dining and entertainment. Driven by the philosophy of creating a dramatically different offering, along with their commitment and passion for client satisfaction, Shape Properties is elevating standards in the commercial real estate sector. The company is currently in the process of developing Lougheed Town Centre, a popular regional shopping center.

One reason for Texas Roadhouse® restaurants’ fast-growing success is customer and kitchen staff comfort. Several years ago Texas Roadhouse restaurants began using LCSystem’s backshelf hood system. The change from canopy to backshelf hoods improved kitchen comfort levels and reduced exhaust airflow as much as 50 percent. However, like canopy hoods, backshelf hoods included conventional make-up air (MUA) that was heated in winter but not conditioned in summer.

A nationwide grocery chain operates more than 200 supermarkets in a variety of different marketplaces, providing groceries to families in a safe and secure shopping environment. Patrons purchase items at very competitive prices, which covers the cost of building new grocery stores, and modernizing and maintaining existing ones. A core family support element and a valued part of their social responsibility, the grocery stores contribute to the communities in which they operate to enhance the quality of life for families and provide convenient, efficient services to their customers in the geographical area.

White Castle Restaurants, famous for its mouth-watering hamburgers, faced the classic restaurant dilemma. Poorly ventilated kitchens can drive cooks and employees from the cooking areas, leading to production delays, quality problems, increased employee turnover, and ultimately reduced repeat business.

When complete World Market Center will include eight buildings totaling more than 12 million square feet—the world’s largest furniture design and show room center.

This international wholesale club plans to open new warehouse stores in the United States and Mexico. While spanning geographies, the locations have the common objectives of cost-effectively managing building operations and lowering energy costs.