Brad Taback doesn’t like to have all of his eggs in one basket. The 46-year-old owner of Climatech Inc., a Pittsburgh-based HVAC contractor strong in both commercial and residential markets, believes this diversification makes his company unique. Admittedly, most of Climatech’s business is in the commercial market, but Taback’s father started the business in 1972 as a residential company, and it continues to operate and grow in that market today.
“In Pittsburgh, there are a lot of either-ors,” Taback said. “There are a lot of large commercial mechanical companies who really don’t do residential, and there are residential companies who don’t do commercial. We are large in the commercial market, but we’re large in the residential market ,as well. We’ve always maintained our residential presence, and it’s grown over the years.”