GRAPEVINE, Texas — It wasn’t quite an episode of “The View,” but the HVAC industry’s hot topics were discussed at the annual ACCA CEO Forum, sponsored by The NEWS.
For the second year in a row, CEOs took questions directly from the contractor audience of ACCA’s annual conference. The first question of the event centered on the heavy regulations the government is introducing in the HVAC field. More specifically, contractors wanted to know about the 92 percent minimum-efficiency furnace standard proposed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Not surprisingly, nobody on stage thought it was a good idea. Doug Young, president and COO, Lennox Intl. Inc., put the idea somewhere between bad and really bad.