Life-changing experiences can take many forms. For Bernard Amadei, Ph.D., founding president of Engineers Without Borders (EWB)-USA and cofounder of the EWB-International network, it was “looking into the eyes of a dying child. [It] will change your life forever.”
The most important thing any contractor should know is that it is OK to make a profit. Period. Contractors must remember that profit is not a bad word.
Galveston, oh Galveston, I still hear your sea winds blowin’… Jimmy Webb wrote it and Glen Campbell sang it in 1969. Now, as it was then, Galveston, Texas, keeps welcoming tourists back to its Gulf Coast beaches and many attractions. It’s a great place to live and work, but there are some business owners who wish the worker pool was a little deeper.
For 35 years it was a recognizable symbol in this Illinois town. The six-foot Tinman stood tall on the roof of King Heating and Air Conditioning, acting like a beacon for travelers along the busy intersection of 159th and Cicero. But like all good things, this tradition came to an end, thanks to a ruling by the city of Oak Forest Building Department.
Portable air conditioning has become an accepted method for providing temporary and emergency cooling during air conditioning shut downs or failures. Times are changing, though. As the market for portable air conditioners has evolved, so have the applications requirements.
Have you ever wanted to assimilate the collective brainpower of your current or prospective customers and didn’t want to use conventional means of direct mail or follow-up happy calls? A new Website has been created that helps business owners (and anyone else) create their own online surveys
What do you do when you have to take a building’s a/c system offline in order to make repairs? Or worse yet, what do you do when a system breaks down, and you’re going to have to wait a few days for a part? One answer is portable, or temporary, cooling.
When
it came time to provide temporary heating during construction of the Conrad
Indianapolis Hotel, general contractor Hunt Construction turned to Mobile Air
Inc. The company devised
a temporary heat program that was so efficient it earned an award
from the Energy Solutions Center.
There are various ways to provide portable air conditioning,
and in the residential market the predominant designs are one-pipe or two-pipe
systems. Which to use? Answer: It depends.
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