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Ray Wohlfarth, president of Fire and Ice in Pittsburgh and contributor to Engineered Systems, will be offering classes on low-pressure steam systems.

When the 26,000-square-foot Sanford-Springvale YMCA opened its doors in Sanford, Maine, in 1979, two heating-oil-fired HB Smith cast-iron boilers provided both space heating and hot water.

I just spent $3,700 for a dealer to inspect and repair my daughter’s 8-year-old passenger minivan. The value of the vehicle is about $4,200; however, a new replacement would have set me back $27,700 (less the trade-in value).

Approximately six years ago, we visited the manufacturing plant of one of the largest boiler manufacturers in the country. The visit was related to a specific project that required high-efficiency condensing boilers for heating and steam boilers for humidification.

Paul M. Dorman High School in Roebuck, South Carolina is achieving academic excellence that’s the envy of many other schools across the Southeast. Dorman High sends 86 percent of its graduates on to college or military service. Last year, Dorman grads earned over $38 million in scholarships.

A. O. Smith is celebrating the grand opening of its newly renovated Technical Training Facility located at its Customer Care Facility in Ashland City, Tennessee.

Verderose will focus on supporting national accounts in the growing US market.

Life is filled with unintended consequences and sometimes so are boiler rooms. When you’re tasked with designing and/or installing a replacement boiler for a customer, you’re certainly performing your due diligence, but there may still be problems that you do not anticipate.

A Missouri college called late last fall with a problem. Its heating system, a central campus heating water boiler plant with two pumped loops and three distribution branches, had developed a leak in the loop to the library building across the quad.