Energy recovery ventilation (ERV) has been on the scene for years. More recently, however, all major HVAC OEMs and nearly all smaller manufacturers have engineered ERVs to be a standard option on DX systems. It also has a growing popularity among engineers, contractors, and building owners.
The NEWS spoke to all the principals involved in a Blue Dot closing and sale of its customer base-phone numbers and found out what lies ahead for companies that now must deal with a new customer base and employees who need retraining to fit into new cultures.
HVACR contractors can save the world from global warming. So believes the new Green Mechanical Council (GreenMech), which intends to be the advocates for the HVACR industry to meet with government, educational, industry, and labor interests to ï¬nd green solutions. It’s looking for input and help from the contractor world.
While shopping one of the big box home store discounters for a client, I watched a perfect example of overselling. When I asked the customer, “Why didn’t you buy that sink?”, she replied, “He would not shut up and sell it to me.”
Labor demands, diminishing labor pools, graying technicians, and technological advances are creating a gap in the current HVAC workforce. Unions, associations, and educators across the nation, however, are providing new research and programs to bridge the workforce gap.
While the rest of the country shivered under a record cold spell, dealers and distributors at ICP’s Victory Tour 2007 basked in the warmth of 80° weather. The warm weather was a side benefit, as the real reason they gathered was to learn about ICP’s new product lineup.
A DuPont Webcast event noted increasing pressure to further regulate HFCs and industry efforts to find refrigerants with lower global warming potential (GWP).
Let’s say you have a new service van or truck and you want to fill it with the tools and test instruments you need on the job. Or you’re driving a van you’ve had for a long time and you’ve gotten around to cleaning it out and now you want to figure out what you really need in there. One way to develop a checklist of needed items.
More than 70 companies were listed under Air Conditioning, Heating & Ventilating Equipment in the official exhibit guide of the 2007 International Builders’ Show, in addition to companies participating as sponsors of six different model homes on or near the site. Orlando was definitely the place for them to be seen by buying customers.
One good way to get an overview of what’s new in tools and test instruments, leak detectors, and recovery equipment was at the most recent Air Conditioning, Heating, Refrigerating Expo in Dallas. There, a lot of what’s new was on display. The article is an overview by categories of some of the new equipment.
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