A "little job" in this rural community turned into an interesting and challenging hydronic heating system installation for local Pennsylvania mechanical contractor, Dave Yates, president of F. W. Behler Inc. A Revolutionary War-era home was about to undergo its first-ever major renovation.
Energy certainly has been a top-of-mind issue in recent years and the World Energy Engineering Congress (WEEC) provides a comprehensive look at multiple aspects of this important topic. The opening session of this year's conference focused on leadership in energy management and was led off by two United States senators.
According to the Canadian Hydronics Council (CHC), training is the key to ensuring contractors can provide the best service to their customers. This is the reason why it is launching its new certification program.
The weather won't be the only factor affecting how readily consumers will invest in a new heating system. The housing market and consumer spending in general will affect how much they are willing or able to invest in their homes.
Designing and installing stand-alone radiant heating systems as well as hybrid systems - combining radiant with gas or geothermal - is becoming a popular option for homeowners and HVAC contractors. Taking their cue from hydronic heating-plumbing contractors, the HVAC contracting trade is continuing to add radiant to its product mix.
Grouping customers together doesn't serve any of the parties involved. Using velocity marketing, distributors should look at a customer's growth or contraction and each one's account activity to see which companies to spend time and money on in order to make more money for yourself.
CFM Equipment Distributors believes that its dealer customers should have every opportunity to make money and increase profits. The company's success is tied to the success of its customers. One way of doing this is by using a pricing strategy that utilizes two key elements: Profit Strategies/CFM Up-Front pricing program.
In order to maintain business continuity no matter what, Tom Willison turned his company into a "systems-based business." The systems include a policy manual, insurance, and a high-tech customer history/dispatch system. The latter, in particular, is "valued by me and my customers," he said.
Gas prices and the economy are not the only factors affecting current business practices. New ideas of technology, efficiency, and productivity have altered distribution formulas as supply and demand evolves into a commanding link in the supply chain.
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