This article makes the case that the slavery of self-employment is escapable if you build a business. There is a distinct difference between being self-employed and building a business.
The January 2006 deadline requiring all manufactured air conditioning units to be rated at 13 SEER or higher is not fazing many contractors and service companies. This is not to say that contractors, in general, do not have concerns or issues about the marketplace once the new minimum standard is in place.
Most campus buildings at Saint Leo University had standalone cooling systems - both DX systems and chilled water - and many of those systems were old and quite inefficient. So the school looked at going to a central cooling plant.
Association Health Plan (AHP) legislation, written to allow national trade associations to offer health insurance to members, passed the U.S. House of Representatives, but has stalled in the U.S. Senate. The delay has disappointed at least two leading contractor groups.
In many parts of the country, people haven't switched off their air conditioners, but here at The News, we're already thinking about all the new boilers, furnaces, and heat pumps being offered by manufacturers. The News' annual Heating Showcase is here.
Here is another installment of "The Compressor Mysteries," a collaborative creative endeavor between The News and Copeland, an Emerson Climate Technologies company. These articles are designed to help clear up some diagnosis misconceptions. This installment invites readers to diagnose a problem with a reach-in freezer in a grocery store.
Plenty of wind and water damage along with gasoline shortages plagued air conditioning and refrigeration contractors in the early days following Hurricane Frances that swept across Florida over Labor Day weekend.