For the second year in a row, RIDGID® is rewarding its most passionate fans with an all-expenses-paid, VIP trip to its world headquarters. The RIDGID Experience Contest is now open for entry. Six winners will be selected for a trip July 11-13, 2018, that includes a VIP tour of RIDGID headquarters, the opportunity to build your own custom pipe wrench and more.
Dominick Guarino, the chairman and CEO of National Comfort Institute has a pretty good saying that all contractors should follow: “If you don’t measure, you’re just guessing.”
First-place prizes awarded to public high school teachers, schools in Washington, California, and New York
November 3, 2017
The Harbor Freight Tools for Schools Prize for Teaching Excellence, which recognizes outstanding instruction in the skilled trades in U.S. public high schools, awarded $510,000 to the three first-place winners and seven second-place winners. Harbor Freight Tools made additional donations totaling $44,000 to 44 semi-finalists.
Edwards Heating & Air, an HVAC company deeply rooted in the greater Atlanta area, will be giving away a brand new home furnace package at this year’s Taste of Acworth, and the Taste of Kennesaw, Nov. 4, valued at approximately $1,000 each.
The LowDown Showdown sought to broaden the industry’s ability to engage architects, engineers, designers, and energy modelers to create an effective workflow and an outstanding design in real-word building efficiency challenges. The contest encouraged participants to work as integrated teams to use their design and modeling skills to create a near net-zero energy building.
The NEWS’ Best Instructor and Trainer contest aims to shine a spotlight on the best teachers and advisors across the HVACR industry, and this year was no different as one of the industry’s true workhorses, Ed Brink, division manager, technical training, Meier Supply Co., was honored as the nation’s Best Trainer contest winner.
Joe Carone, an instructor for the Sheet Metal, Air, Rail, and Transportation Workers (SMART) Local 265, in Carol Stream, Illinois, was chosen as The NEWS’ 2017 Best Instructor.
The NEWS presents the top 40 HVACR professionals under 40 years of age who are accomplishing great things in their respective positions. This is the third year we’ve asked our readers to nominate the best of the best and, indeed, they did. We received 180 entries, and picking the top 40 was incredibly difficult.
Neuco Inc. together with Honeywell ran a promotion this summer which rewarded five wholesale distributors with an all-expense-paid trip to Chicago and a Cubs rooftop party. Customers accumulated chances to win each time they ordered $250 or more of Honeywell products from Neuco.
Service World Expo, held Sept. 7-8, announces a call for entries for its Super Hero Branding contest. “We are looking for a few special companies that use a Super Hero (mascot) logo to brand their team of professionals,” said an Expo spokesperson.