With all the material handed out, suggestions made, tips offered, and networking experienced over five jam-packed days, you could say attendees of the 2008 AirTime 500 Expo went home thick with information and knowledge. Then again, “Thicke” may be more appropriate.
While duct cleaning may be the one service all attendees of the National Air Duct Cleaners Association's 2008 convention have in common, most participants dabble in far more areas in the heating and cooling industry.
This photo feature provides in-depth information on the features of each individual unit and also includes technical support information from the manufacturer.
Every year The NEWS introduces the latest air conditioning units available for the upcoming summer season. The intent is to help contractors prepare for this busy period by doing the research that will help them to distinguish between brands. Like last year, this year’s Cooling Showcase is split into two parts. This issue focuses on residential-light commercial products.
If building owners or facility managers are among your customers, take note. At the National Facilities Management and Technology Event, one of the premier education and trade show events for building owners and facilities managers, far and away the hot topic this year was energy and sustainability.
Worldwide demand for sulfur and sulfuric acid is adding to pricing pressures on HCFC and HFC refrigerants that contractors use every day. The issue arose with an announcement about a price increase for HFC-134a that the statement said impacted automotive customers, but The NEWS confirmed it would also affect the stationary sector.
In
the early days, variable-frequency
drives (VFDs) were not always reliable. We’re now light years away from the old, unreliable VFD technology. Today's VFDs are smaller, run cooler, are readily available, and their energy-saving performance in air-handling systems is well-known.
The Mechanical Service Contractors of America (MSCA) announced that
three more companies achieved MSCA STAR status, bringing the total number of STAR
contractors nationally to 92. MSCA STAR is a qualification program that
recognizes contractors who exceed rigorous operating and training
standards.
Should
you try to revive consumer relationships that are failing because e-mail has
become undeliverable or unresponsive, or should you simply drop them from
future campaigns? Here is advice to help you determine
whether or not inactive e-mail recipients can actually be saved, or whether
they should be dropped.
January
of 2010 is when manufacturers must stop manufacturing units using that old
reliable R-22 and change to the new R-410A. No big deal. We went through the 10
to 13 SEER change, certainly we learned from the problems that we encountered.
I’m not sure we learned our lesson.
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