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The topic of heat stress has been in the forefront of Federal OSHA, state regulators, and standards setting groups over the past five years and 2022 is “heating up” as well.

A few years back, if you would have asked Shawna Peddle what career path she planned on taking, she'd tell you she never would have considered the HVAC industry. But then something changed.

I recently sat down with Sophia Bellos, vice president of product development at Ducted Systems, Johnson Controls.

With the opportunity to build on a blank slate, Hooper has dedicated more space to prefabrication for ductwork and other sheet metal projects.

SNIPS Sheet Metal Industry Icon for 2021 is David Daw, an inventor who’s been innovating in the HVAC fabrication industry for over 50 years. 

Emphasizing company culture leads to greater worker retention and training, says Acosta Sheet Metal VP of Operations and Marketing.

After SNIPS Magazine sat down with testing and balancing expert Jack Webster earlier in the year, we decided to talk to him again in our first installment of Tin Knocker Tales, a new podcast series.

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.

Adding duct cleaning services to your existing HVAC company can be an extremely simple, inexpensive and very rewarding process.

HVAC company owners would do well to start diversifying their revenue streams with services like duct cleaning and service support.