Combined U.S. factory shipments of 358,596 central air conditioners and air-source heat pumps in October were up 12 percent from October 2001, according to statistics provided by the Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute (ARI).
At the Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute’s (ARI’s) annual meeting, held recently at the La Quinta Resort and Club in La Quinta, CA, News publisher John Conrad surprised outgoing ARI president Dan Holmes with a $5,900 check made out to the Clifford H. “Ted” Rees Jr. Scholarship Foundation.
The Air Conditioning Contractors of America (ACCA) has added 11 more of its three-day “Instructor Certification Workshops” on the new eighth edition of Manual J™, the industry-standard residential load calculation procedure.
Carrier Corporation commended the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) for naming New York Gov. George Pataki as the first recipient of its Green Building Leadership Award.
North American Technician Excellence (NATE) will offer certification testing for residential and light commercial HVAC technicians at the 2003 Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Exposition (AHR Expo) at Chicago’s McCormick Place Convention Center on Jan. 27.
In an effort to ensure that perishable foods stored, displayed, and dispensed in retail stores for off-premises consumption are adequately protected throughout the final stage in the distribution process, the Commercial Refrigerator Manufacturers Division (CRMD) of the Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute (ARI) has created ARI Standard 1200-2002, “Commercial Refrigerated Display Cases.”
The Air Conditioning Contractors of America (ACCA) reported that over 450 companies have become new members of the ACCA federation during the months of September and October.
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has revised its standards for means of egress, concluding that the National Fire Protection Association’s (NFPA’s) 2000 edition of the Life Safety Code® provides comparable safety to OSHA’s Exit Routes Standard.