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Article: Study to track Downtown City-County building's energy use

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As Pittsburgh officials develop a plan to make the City-County Building more energy-efficient, a Carnegie Mellon University engineering intern is starting a high-tech study of the 1920s-era building's trouble spots.

Guy Costa isn't sure of the details yet. "It's going to look at what's behind the walls, at what needs to be done," the city's Public Works director said this week after a panel discussion at the university's Oakland campus.

Costa and four business representatives and academics talked about making buildings, bridges, natural gas and sewer pipelines and electric grids run in a "smarter" way, using sensors and other technology being developed and tested by places like CMU.

"I ...

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