According to the Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute (ARI), combined U.S. factory shipments of 452,751 central air conditioners and air-source heat pumps for September were up 10% compared to shipments from the same month last year.
Expressing strong support for S. 2239, the “FHA Downpayment Simplification Act of 2002,” the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) said that passage of the legislation by the Senate will help to increase the availability of affordable housing and expand rental housing and homeownership opportunities across the country.
Bill Bradley, former U.S. Senator from New Jersey, addressed several hundred industry executives in Las Vegas, NV, at “The Resource Revolution: An Invensys Symposium on Productivity in the 21st Century.”
Carrier Corporation recently announced the start of a new series of dealer sales training programs. The training was developed to help dealers cope with changes in the marketplace.
Members of the United Association (UA), the Mechanical Contractors Association of America (MCAA), and the Construction Users Roundtable (CURT) gathered here recently for the 2002 MCAA/UA Labor Relations Conference.
The Master of Industrial Distribution (MID) Online Degree program at Texas A&M University is accepting applications for admission to its fall 2003 class.
The construction of two new state-of-the-art educational laboratories is near completion at the Antelope Valley College in Los Angeles County, CA. Completion of the refrigeration and HVAC labs is expected early in 2003.