President Joe Biden is suddenly showing a lot of interest in HVAC. Biden visited an HVAC laboratory at Tidewater Community College in Virginia in early May. A week and a half earlier, he presented Johnson Controls CEO George Oliver as a speaker at the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate April 22. Both events were designed to advance the administration’s policy goals.
The President and first lady Jill Biden, who has a doctorate in education, received a first-hand look at how future HVAC technicians learn their trade. Instructor Harlan Krepcik explained how the first-year students were learning how to use instruments to measure a system’s current.