Nearly 500 HVACR educators and trainers representing approximately 900 training centers packed the 2010 HVAC Excellence National HVACR Educators and Trainers Conference at the Tropicana Convention Center in Las Vegas. The theme of the event was “Green is the New Gold.”
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has named Manitowoc Foodservice as a 2010 Energy Star Partner of the Year for its contribution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by manufacturing energy-efficient products and helping to educate consumers about those products.
On Feb. 17, 2009, President Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). One of the primary goals of this legislation was to preserve and create jobs, and it included a special provision to aid the HVAC industry. Now that these tax credits have been available in our industry for over a year, we are in a position to analyze their impact.
For the first time in the company’s history, Clockwork Home Services Inc. has allowed franchisees to have the opportunity to elect a president for each of the franchise brands. For the One Hour Air Conditioning & Heating brand, Lenny Siers won the presidential election.
One aspect of counting dollars and staying green ties in with the HVACR equipment, especially the large chiller plants common at airports, commercial buildings, and college campuses. In the three brief case histories here, improvements and upgrades to chiller operations are described.
The chiller sector is setting its sights on a Star - particularly legislation dubbed “Building Star” offering potentially billions of dollars in incentives for energy retrofit on buildings. When that is factored in with adjusting to environmental regulations, hopes for a recovering economy and equipment innovations, there results a four-fold approach to keeping a vital sector of HVACR moving forward.
Chiller maintenance is becoming more vital than ever before. Better maintenance can mean valuable energy savings and better bottom-line profits. That was the thrust of a presentation titled “Raising the Bar on Chiller Maintenance” given by Kip Bagley of Mesa Energy Systems and Rod Kraft of EMCOR Services Arizona, at a webinar presented by The NEWS and Goodway Technologies.
Have you ever wished for a crystal ball to see things your traditional test equipment and eyes couldn’t reveal? Compared to traditional test equipment, a thermal imager may seem like a crystal ball. By going beyond the visible spectrum to the radiated heat spectrum, we begin to see predictive qualities that do indeed foretell future likelihoods.
The CEO Forum at the recent ACCA Convention drew a large crowd of contractors, most of whom were eager to hear what OEMs thought about the state of the industry. NEWS editor-in-chief Mike Murphy asked the senior executives of Carrier, Emerson, Goodman, Lennox, Mitsubishi, and WaterFurnace tough questions submitted by contractors around the country.
Polyvinylether (PVE) is an innovative refrigerant oil specially formulated for hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigeration systems that provides a number of applied advantages. This article focuses on the use of PVE with R-410A air conditioning applications.
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