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2024 is Likely to be Even More Challenging for HVAC Contractors

Get Ready For a Bumpy Ride

January 6, 2024

With rising equipment prices, a presidential election, the impact of private equity, the supply chain, inflation in general, and more, 2024 brings many challenges.

Ontological Shock: Why We Can’t Be the Frog in the Pot

Ontological shock is what happens when you have an experience that confronts your worldview in such a way that it can’t be ignored.

Laura Sukorokoff

November 26, 2023

The technician shortage took on a new importance during the pandemic and, in many ways, that hasn’t eased up.

Invest in Training for the Future Skilled Trades Workforce

An investment in trades training is an investment in the trades industries themselves

Dustin Bowerman

November 15, 2023

Lasting learning in the skilled trades requires substantial time spent working on real equipment with real tools.

Interplay Learning Virtual Reality Training

Navigating the HVAC Technician Shortage by Connecting With Techs

By learning technician’s needs, HVAC contractors can meet them

Hannah Belloli-Oster

November 8, 2023

HVAC contractors have to focus on recruiting and retaining technicians by focusing efforts on learning and then providing what the current workforce is looking for.

AI Takes on HVAC Labor Shortage

An HVAC Minute Video Update: October 24, 2023

Hannah Belloli-Oster

October 24, 2023

Software company Bluon is betting that artificial intelligence, or AI, can help solve the labor shortage — and pass along decades of knowledge from retiring HVAC techs to the next generation.

ChatGPT-Style AI Tool for HVAC Takes Aim at Labor Shortage

Trained on 50,000 HVAC tech support calls, the app answers HVAC troubleshooting questions with 96% accuracy, according to its creators

Maria Taylor

October 5, 2023

AI tools, such as Bluon’s MasterMechanic, could make a big dent in another aspect of the labor issue: the wisdom lost as older, highly skilled workers leave the industry.

Promotions Announced at Tech Provider XOi

September 28, 2023

In their new roles, enterprise account executive Austin Piazza and account executive Lindsey Fisher are responsible for developing and enhancing relationships and educating the industry about XOi’s capacity to help contractors solve the skilled-trades gap and grow their businesses.

Trades School Opens Dallas Metro Campus

September 21, 2023

The Dallas Metro TWS campus will offer professional welder and refrigeration technologies programs in addition to an all-new electrical lineworker program.

Dept. of Labor Updates Davis-Bacon Acts

Critics say the new rule will result in unnecessary and costly regulation

August 31, 2023

The Davis Bacon Act has been significantly updated for the first time in 40 years. Some industry groups applaud the update, while others say it will result in burdensome regulations.