CHICAGO - Recession? What recession? Not at Fabtech. The Nov. 14-17, 2011, metal forming and fabrication event at the massive McCormick Place convention center here broke all the records organizers have used to track the show: trade show attendance, seminar enrollment and exhibit space.
ATLANTA - Anyone looking for signs that the U.S. construction industry is starting to recover may want to check out the attendance statistics from last year’s Metalcon.
The Jan. 25 ruling was a
victory for the Air-Conditioning, Heating
and Refrigeration Institute and other industry groups, which claimed federal
law governing the manufacture of heating and cooling equipment overrode ability
of Albuquerque, N.M., to set its own performance standards.
The former Renewable Energy Pavilion has been
renamed the Sustainability Pavilion and will feature environmentally friendly
products such solar, photovoltaics, vegetative, day lighting and geothermal
technologies.
The Associated Builders and Contractors’ national chairman
was not impressed with President Barack Obama’s Jan. 24 State of the Union
address. Eric Regelin, president of Granix LLC in Ellicott
City, Md., said the speech offered little more than already
failed ideas.
The Heating, Air-conditioning and Refrigeration
Distributors International has partnered with Cause of Action in filing a motion with
the U.S. Court of Appeals to stop the standards from being implemented.
The PHCC Educational Foundation will hold its "Essentials of Project
Management" course March 14-17 at the National
Conference Center
in Lansdowne, Va.
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