Never met Dr. Patricia Stanley, but I will be crossing paths with the deputy assistant secretary in the Office of Vocational and Adult Education twice next month. Dr. Stanley is the scheduled keynote speaker for both the HVACR & Plumbing Instructor Workshop and the HVACR Educators & Trainers Conference.
I’ve heard the argument hundreds of times from companies in the commercial HVACR market, “We are spending most of our marketing and advertising dollars to convince the engineer to ‘spec’ our products.” Let’s walk that through the marketing spectrum.
Having worked for a prominent geothermal manufacturer while competing with Earth Linked Technologies (formerly ECR Technologies), here is a tip of the hat to the boys in Lakeland, Fla. I spent part of a day at the company’s annual sales meeting.
The news is so commonplace that even I sometimes take it for granted. I’m talking about daily stories of people dying or being sickened by carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning. I get my daily Google Alerts off the Internet and it would surprise me if a day didn’t go by where someone was killed or injured by CO poisoning.
While at the 2008 Air-Conditioning, Heating, Refrigerating Exposition, I was invited to visit the booth of the National Environmental Balancing Bureau (NEEB). It had some information to pass along.
Yes, the end of the world is near. Forget about the high unemployment rates, slowdown in new home construction, and high foreclosure rates. That’s peanuts compared to the recent woeful news from the economic battlefront.
If you are one of the 30,000-plus industry people that made their way to the Jacob Javits Center in Manhattan last week, you probably had the same reaction that I did. Even though I am not used to $6 cups of coffee or tipping cabbies 20 percent to avoid a cold stare, I’ve gotta say my experience in New York was pretty darn good.
There seems to be dangerous thinking pervading some casual conversations around our country. People are always talking about how to increase efficiency will reducing costs of HVAC equipment. That’s a given. But they are also talking about the importance of “going green,” too.
Everyone seems intent on comparing the saving of building more efficient cars, of building more efficient toasters, of building more efficient heat pumps, and yes, the more efficient use of anything to - saving trees.
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