Garth Tagge is a national sales manager for Spot Coolers, a division of Carrier Rental Systems, one of the United Technologies Companies. For more information, visit www.spot-coolers.com.
Next year, the American portable air conditioning market turns 30 years old. Judging by the state of the market today, a lot has transpired since those early days.
The evolution of an industry and its impact on society often make an interesting study. Take portable air conditioning: Introduced to America in 1983 by Denso, a Japanese manufacturer of automotive products, portable air conditioning was first designed to cool workers on the assembly line.
Any competent a/c or mechanical contractor can provide a cooling system for a typical building. They size the equipment for the load and install a duct system for adequate air distribution. But whom do you call when your structure has specific requirements and does not resemble anything you have ever cooled before?
The manufacturers creating new HVAC technologies are teaching others all about it.
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Kara Saul Rinaldi, executive director with the National Home Performance Council (NHPC) introduces the NHPC and discusses a recently released white paper focused on properly developing the home-performance industry.
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