Steve and Sandy Townsend wanted a new house with all the charm of a 142-year-old historic lighthouse, but none of the worries about high energy bills. When the plans for the Hooper Strait Lighthouse became available, they hired an architect to create a lighthouse home with modern conveniences. Finding a way to control the space’s temperature was a challenge. In stepped John Maguire.
With all the emphasis on social media, Twitter, Facebook and Internet marketing, it is easy to assume traditional marketing is obsolete. But that is not true. For most small business owners, the best results can be found by combining on- and off-line elements. Direct mail campaigns, done correctly, can be a very powerful tool for small business marketing.
Cash flow - how much money is flowing into and out of your business - is an easy concept to understand. Still, not every contractor is aware of the impact that cash management has on the bottom line. That’s because the importance of managing revenue is far easier to recognize in some types of businesses than it is in others.
The biggest change affecting the HVAC market in 2010 is the official stop to the manufacture and sale of systems that use R-22. We checked in with a few manufacturers to see how the official transition has been going. In short, they said contractors are doing very well indeed.
Polar Technology has purchased Refrigerant Services Inc. (RSI). RSI provides recovery services in a specialized section of the industry, tailored toward large industrial refrigeration accounts, such as chemical plants and process cooling facilities.
WaterFurnace dealers and distributors were treated to new products, new programs, and predictions of a great sales year at the company’s annual sales meeting in Phoenix. President and CEO Tom Huntington predicted a “mixed bag” for the overall economy but said “2010 will be a great year” for WaterFurnace dealers and distributors.
The Unified Group (TUG) is made up of contractors who help each other by sharing best practices, responding to e-mail questions of fellow members, and engaging in candid talks at meetings. One of those candid meetings took place recently under the title “Construction Group Best Practice Session.”
An estimated 90 percent of data center rooms today are suffering HVAC cooling problems. A majority of these ongoing overheating equipment failures in data centers are blamed on cooling capacity, but few data center managers are aware most problems really stem from inadequate ventilation or air distribution.
Steril-Aire Inc., manufacturer of germicidal ultraviolet C (UVC) devices, and Italian distributor IMACO International Manufacturing Corp., are installing the manufacturer’s UVC Emitters™ at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana (Ambrosiana Library, Milan, Italy), to protect an historic exhibit of the Atlantic Codex drawings by Leonardo da Vinci.
For the past three years, representatives of Air Conditioning Technical Center (AC Tech) in Miami have been visiting area high schools making career presentations. The seminars address primarily junior and senior students informing them of the career options available in the field of a/c service, installation, and maintenance.
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