Shipment and Construction Trends Experience Downshift
ARLINGTON, Va. - Unitary shipments continue to experience a shift, as the 13 SEER ramp up has passed and energy price concerns step into the foreground. Heat pump shipments are the new trend to watch. And, although October’s numbers, totaling 122,617 units, are down 35.5 percent from the same month last year, according to the Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute (ARI), heat pump shipment levels are on track to outpace 2005’s totals. The year-to-date total, as of October 2006, is 1,870,314 units, up 4 percent from January-October 2005.