Combined U.S. factory shipments of 388,533 central air conditioners and air-source heat pumps for November were up 9 percent compared to shipments from the same month last year, according to statistics from the Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute (ARI).
Danfoss North America Motion Controls, a business of Danfoss A/S, and Trane, a business of American Standard Companies Inc., have signed an exclusive brand-label supplier agreement.
The Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA) and an alliance of leaders from the building automation, HVAC, security, information technology (IT), and facility management industries have announced efforts to create guidelines for sharing data and control across facility systems.
The Empire Keystone Association (EKA) of the Refrigeration Service Engineers Society (RSES) has announced the 41st annual EKA Regional Conference: "Energy Efficiency & the HVACR Industry."
Housing starts rose to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 2.070 million units in October, reported the U.S. Department of Commerce. This is 4.5 percent above October's upwardly revised estimate of 1.980 million units.