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ASHRAE’s 2021-22 president is Mick Schwedler, P.E., Fellow ASHRAE, LEED AP. 

U.S. Navy veteran and Connecticut resident Jeremy Zeedyk joined the National Energy Management Institute Committee (NEMIC) Feb. 1 as the representative for the Northeast region.

This paragraph is the only place you’ll read the phrase “COVID-19” in the entire issue of the June 2021 SNIPS Magazine. And that’s intentional. For more than a year, the pandemic has dominated conversations in the sheet metal industry and beyond. And in that chorus, we’ve left several stories fly under the radar.

To address the growing skilled trades labor gap, Air Conditioning Contractors of America (ACCA) is calling on the industry to urge representatives in Congress to cosponsor H.R. 3365 and 3366.

A significant portion of the facade for Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis' new IUPUI building is comprised of aluminum composite material (ACM) from Alucoil.

Rigaku Analytical Devices recently announced a new, handheld laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) analyzer. The Rigaku KT-500 features HiRES Technology, with the first miniaturized, high-resolution echelle spectrometer.

Carrier recently announced a price increase of up to 7% on North American residential, light commercial and commercial applied products effective in June 2021.

The Puget Sound region is known for a few things—beautiful mountains, green forests and bad traffic. Holmberg Mechanical won a $6.5 million contract to build an open tunnel for a light rail system scheduled for completion in 2023 that will help fix the traffic situation.

Just as the pandemic was starting up last year, the metals, HVAC, commercial roofing and machinery products distributor was investing in a new sheeting machine from Iowa Precision.

“This is hooking to a drop. All taps are offsetting and sloping for material runout towards one outlet around pipes and beams … Just thought it looked cool.” Indeed.