The last time Dallas hosted the International Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigerating (AHR) Expo was 2000. This year’s event will be even bigger than the last time it came to Dallas, with more than 1,600 exhibiting companies from 35 countries, including 320 international exhibitors and nine new international pavilions.
In general, mechanical contractors need to make sure they aren’t taking on more contract responsibility than they intend to, said a speaker at the Mechanical Service Contractors of America (MSCA) Educational Conference.
Contractors planning to attend the Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigerating Exposition will have an opportunity to also attend a few of the sessions that will be presented at the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers’ meeting, which takes place Jan. 28-31.
Max is Back! signs greet visitors and remind students of the long road that Max S. Hayes Vocational High School has traveled, and of the many successes ahead. The inner-city school was once the shining accomplishment of the union trades that cooperatively built the school with the finest trade shop facilities.
Many techs who service gas appliances reminisce about the days of the pilot and belt-drive blower - how wonderful it was to have belts to adjust, pilot orifices to clean, ribbon burners to wash, bearings to oil, and air shutters to adjust to get just the perfect blue cone in the flame with streaks of orange appearing intermittently at the tips.
Contractors involved in design-build (D-B) were asked to look into their crystal ball to see what’s ahead in the D-B process. Here are a few prognostications for 2007.
Contractors experienced in the design-build (D-B) process have plenty of advice for those who have not stepped into either the commercial or residential design-build arena, but strongly desire to do so. Here are some of the responses provided to The NEWS.
Every business owner wants to cut costs and add efficiency. And for Scott Templin, president and general manager of Temperature Service Co., a commercial and industrial mechanical contractor in Elk Grove, Ill., that means outsourcing the management of his 50-vehicle fleet to Enterprise Fleet Services.
Bultman’s company, Kilgust Mechanical, was able to meet all of the design-build and mechanical engineering challenges in the creation of the Wild Waterdome, the Wilderness’ new 70,000-square-foot indoor waterpark. The billing, “America’s Largest Indoor Waterpark,” draws patrons to the growing Wilderness Resort, but IAQ is one reason they keep returning.
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