The nearly 130 student chapter members who attended the Mechanical Contractors Association of America’s (MCAA’s) 2007 Student Chapter Summit received a solid taste of what to expect from the 2007-08 Student Chapter Competition, which culminates at next year’s association convention.
Sustainability will become - if it hasn’t already - the big buzzword in HVACR, according to many in the industry, including contractors and manufacturers. It will become what energy conservation was during the 1970s, recovery-recycling in the 80s, brownouts-blackouts in the 90s, and 13 SEER in recent years. And contractors are finding themselves as part of the sustainability equation.
Tim Gregori of CORE, the Center for Organizational and Relationship Excellence, at the Clockwork 2007 Congress in Phoenix, discussed the unique set of challenges facing family-owned businesses to an audience of smallish, family-owned contracting companies.
Cold beer and ice go together. But when it comes to the every other year show of the North American Association of Food Equipment Manufacturers (NAFEM), there is a lot more to both technologies than just dropping kegs or cans of beer into buckets of ice.
Fall traditionally marks the beginning of furnace tune-ups and startups, which by no coincidence marks the beginning of stories of carbon monoxide (CO) injuries and deaths from poorly maintained furnaces, boilers, water heaters, etc.
There is a common thread that runs between refrigeration technician Tim Chaffee and 131 children of the Escuela Las Colinas school in Matagalpa, Nicaragua. The Michigan man has made it his mission to provide these children with an education despite the impossible odds against them.
IAQ is a significant issue in health care. A patient ill with a respiratory infection can spread dangerous microbes to other patients, staff, and visitors. Yet, it’s easy to understand the steps required to establish, monitor, and maintain safe, comfortable air quality.
For an HVAC dealer, it’s exciting when a manufacturer asks you to install a new, high-end, technologically advanced product that hasn’t been seen outside the factory walls. That’s what happened to Dave Russell when Bryant asked the dealer to install several of its new modulating gas furnaces.
The
leadership of Johnstone Supply brought the 26th annual Johnstone Supply
Member’s Meeting to the southern shore of Lake Michigan, and fair weather
provided ample opportunity for the charting of new waters in and around the
Windy City.
The Energy Star program provides value not only in
helping improve the efficiency of buildings, but in also seeing at what level a
building is relative to its peers. In a session at the World Energy
Engineering Congress (WEEC), attendees received an Energy Star overview and
how to implement benchmarking to set the bar for improvement.
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