The Dealer Design Award winners have been announced, but the fun is not over quite yet. It’s time for you to vote for your favorite product. We have pitted the winning products against each other in a bracket style competition that allows you to decide who will be the Readers’ Choice champion.

In the Dealer Design Awards’ Miscellaneous category, Build Right Products LLC’s FilterLock received gold, Honeywell International Inc.’s YP900A Delphi Combustion Efficiency Panel took silver, and Rheem’s HP Series Hybrid Water Heater received a bronze.

The NEWS’ seventh annual Dealer Design Awards’ Contractor Services and Software category winners have added new fuel to the digital business fire. No longer content with triplicate receipts and large filing cabinets, these products help contractors conduct business more simply and efficiently.

The NEWS’ seventh annual Dealer Design Awards’ Commercial Controls Including Building Automation category awarded three manufacturers for their work to help contractors and building owners install and run efficient systems.

The NEWS’ seventh annual Dealer Design Awards’ Components and Accessories category entrants waged a fierce battle in a large field of competitors. The winning products found that making the technician’s job easier helped tipped the scales in their favor.

Winners of the The NEWS’ seventh annual Dealer Design Awards in the HVAC Commercial Equipment category are WaterFurnace International, Lochinvar Corp., and Modine Manufacturing Co.

Like a small but mighty country, The NEWS’ seventh annual Dealer Design Awards’ Ventilation Products category wasn’t the largest, but each competitor stepped into the ring and packed a large punch. See the winners here.

Lining up in a large field of competitors, the Dealer Design Awards’ HVAC High Efficiency Residential Equipment category contestants found themselves in a race for the winner’s circle. Citing new electronic and innovative features, contractor judges dissected this category yielding a gold, silver and three bronze winners.

The digital revolution has come. It’s not coming. It won’t be here in a few years. It has arrived. This revelation, be it earth shattering or not, is a wake up call to every contractor who finally got his company’s finances on the computer last year.

The only choice contractors have in natural disaster situations is to be prepared to continue in business once the storm or crisis has passed. Already learning some tough lessons in flooded Nashville, Tenn., Comfort Supply issued a warning to contractors who are working to replace flooded HVAC units for flood victims.