That’s where Glenn Bland, owner of Bland Air Conditioning and Heating, Inc., found himself about two years ago. After working in the industry 21 years, he discovered that he was in the doldrums as far as work was concerned. So he shook things up and took an International Ground-Source Heat Pump Association (IGSHPA) geothermal class.
“That has brought everything back to life as far as I’m concerned,” says Bland. Once he finished the training, he teamed up with ECR Technologies Inc., Lakeland, Fla., manufacturer of EarthLinked systems, and started building a network of geothermal contractors in California.