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Rinnai America Corp. is joining with the Residential Energy Services Network to educate the HVAC industry on the network’s home-energy rating system.

Members of the Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors used the event to lobby for the repeal of the estate tax, more workable regulations and better guidelines for federal weatherization programs.

“Heating and cooling is the single biggest energy consumer in a home, and accounts for about 40 percent of all the energy used by homeowners,” said Stephen Yurek, president and CEO of the Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute.

Panasonic’s Home & Environment Co. division is now known as Eco Products.

Projects from San Francisco, Arizona, Indiana and Washington were among those honored by the National Association of Home Builder. 

AMCA officials said they would mark the event through online news, programs and a social media campaign.

Advantix Systems is up for an American Business Award for its commercial HVAC product.

Discussions dealing with carbon monoxide safety, refrigerants and training are among the topics slated for the Nov. 14-17 meeting at the Wild Dunes Resort in Isle of Palms, S.C. 

The industry lost 2,000 jobs last month, 3,000 in March and 1,000 in February. But it has added an estimated 63,000 jobs during the last year, the General Contractors of America said.

The International Training Institute is making it easier for sheet metal apprentices and journeymen to carry their coarse work.