National health care is on the back burner, and the fate of climate change legislation looks grim. Two significant pieces of legislation that could have an effect on the HVAC industry lay in the wake of President Obama’s Jan. 27 State of the Union address. The shifting focus of his administration is swinging once again to jobs.
Consistently ranking among America’s greenest cities, Portland, Ore., is home to Dawn Bauman and Wendy Broussard, and is a seemingly fitting place for the first installation in the United States of the Daikin Altherma™ system.
Exhibitors of IAQ products at the 2010 AHR Expo have not been idle. They have been improving on existing technologies for increased accuracy and performance, and in some cases, flipping concepts in order get better results. A sampling of new products is provided in this short and snappy roundup.
In December, President Obama proposed a new program that would reimburse homeowners for energy-efficient appliances and insulation, part of a broader plan to stimulate the economy. Under the program, widely called Cash for Caulkers, a homeowner could receive up to $12,000 in rebates for investments in home weatherization.
The year 2009 was a time of change and adjustments in many aspects. For the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program, it was a year to put in place refinements in the program designed to create better “credit harmonization, credit weighing, regionalization, and updating of standards.”
Throughout five years of production, CertainTeed’s plant in Sherman, Texas, has reached a significant environmental milestone. The plant, which manufactures ToughGard® 2 textile duct liner, has diverted more than 24 million pounds of waste from being dumped in a landfill by incorporating a high-recycled content in the product.
One of the ways contractors can help customers realize how much money they could save by improving the efficiency of their home - including the entire home as part of the system - is by hiring a contractor to perform an energy audit. For Hutchinson Plumbing Heating Cooling, energy audits have become an area of expertise during the past two years.
This article highlights all the new products The NEWS’ editors found at the 2010 AHR Expo in Orlando, Fla. In alphabetical order by category, it covers a comprehensive range of products that were displayed at the show from air curtains and air handling units to vales/motors/drives and zoning.
More than 1,800 companies exhibited at the International Air-Conditioning, Heating, Refrigerating Exposition (AHR Expo), including more than 200 new exhibitors and 374 international companies. More than 45,000 HVACR professionals participated in the 62nd AHR Expo in Orlando, Jan. 25-27, at the Orange County Convention Center (OCCC).
From the equipment being installed, to the refrigerant used to provide cooling, so many things have changed in the HVACR industry that only one thing is really clear: There is no such thing as business as usual. That’s why this year The NEWS is running constant articles on “The New Face of HVACR” in 2010.
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