RGF Environmental Group in West Palm Beach, Fla., breaks the mold of most companies: its showroom floats. The showroom is a 110-foot yacht named the Envision that features many of the company’s environmentally friendly products, according to Ronald G. Fink, president and CEO.
If you haven’t been promoting whole-house humidification and dehumidification systems to your customers, you’ve been missing out on a huge source of potential profits. “There is no better sales opportunity than reacting to consumers who have problems with too dry or too humid air,” said Mike Rimrodt of Aprilaire.
Contractors have traditionally focused on selling humidity control systems to customers based on their location and climate. Yet the new trends to build tighter homes and weatherize existing structures are resulting in an across-the-board, across-the-country need for humidity control.
Whether the intent is to set a good example for their students and the community, or to set up a better financial statement, school districts seem to be letting contractors help them with new technologies and control strategies, especially in new buildings - of which there seem to be many these days.
At least one HVAC contractor is capitalizing on students’ interest in energy and the ecology. Pro-Air Services Inc., has created a scholarship opportunity for area high school seniors. The scholarship is named the Pro-Earth Scholarship.
Hill Phoenix’s carbon dioxide technology is now including what the company calls Second Nature Low Temperature Direct Expansion Cascade (SNLTX2). The company describes the approach as “the next level in CO2 refrigeration.” Features include an energy efficient design that saves on operating costs.
A recently released study has projected that global demand for HVAC equipment will rise 6.2 percent per year for the next four years. As reported by the Freedonia Group, an industry market research firm, the global demand for equipment is projected to rise to $93.2 billion in 2014, compared to $68.9 billion in 2009.
Most of the 14,000 attendees and 5,400 contestants at SkillsUSA may not have given a lot of thought to the 52 contestants and the dozens of judges from the HVACR sector. But HVAC folks were as vital to the success of the event as any other aspect. That’s because outdoor temperatures started out hot and humid and only got hotter and more humid as the days went on.
The new Aviva Stadium, the home of Ireland’s international soccer and rugby teams, recently opened on Dublin’s Lansdowne Road and is equipped with more than 54 cold rooms, all under the eye of a data manager system from RDM.
For some, depending upon the specific application, moving away from R-22 can also mean energy savings. According to officials at ICOR International, replacing R-22 with HFC-422C in low or medium temp refrigeration applications can mean what the company said would be “a dramatic drop in energy use.”
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