With more than 2,400 contractors attending the recent 2012 ACCA Annual Conference and Indoor Air Expo in Las Vegas, the event lived up to its “Raise the Stakes” billing.
It started with ACCA president and CEO Paul Stalknecht pushing the association’s chips to the middle of the table by unveiling a new mission for ACCA: “To lead America’s professional indoor environment and energy contractors to business success.” He then revealed the new vision of ACCA, which states in part, “ACCA will proactively represent the professional indoor environment and energy community.” Stalknecht also said many of the association’s members had urged ACCA to “take control of the building performance field,” which led to the formation of the ACCA Building Performance Council under the chairmanship of Ellis Guiles of Tag Mechanical Systems. Stalknecht predicted this new council would quickly become the nation’s largest home performance contracting organization.