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The company finished the year with an OSHA “Days Away” rate of 0.10, which is seven times better that the industry average reported by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

The internet has foretold the rise of robots since the birth of the first binary code. Now that they have officially arrived — and infiltrated a variety of industries, from manufacturing to mobile delivery — skilled trade workers are still tinkering to figure out whether they truly come in peace. Will they make good employees? Or, will they takeover and turn the current mechanical contracting industry on its head?

When you use .1 on the ductulator you can measure friction or resistance. If you know how much duct there is, you can know how much resistance you’ve created. 

The LEED Gold is added to RenewAire’s three Green Globes certification from the Green Building Initiative, making this one of only a handful of commercial buildings to achieve dual-certification through two independent rating systems. 

The company has been in business since 1946 and is the leading independent, family-owned and operated plumbing and heating wholesale distributor in western Washington.

RoboVent has re-designed one of their most popular weld fume extraction systems from inside out.

U.S. mills produced an estimated 1,876k tons at an 81.1 percent utilization rate, up from 1,866k tons and an 80.7 percent rate previously. 

An interview with Aviad Almagor, senior director for mixed reality and brain-computer interface (BCI) at Trimble.

The world is raising the bar on carbon emissions. It's time the HVAC industry followed suit, says Luke Leung, PE, P Eng, LEED Fellow, AHR Expo Expert Council Member.

Weeks have passed since President Trump's initial threat to impose steel tariffs on steel from Argentina and Brazil. It seems he has backed down from the threat.