When they made plans for their new, 1,900-square-foot, four-bedroom home, Jeff and Laura Heindrichs focused on ways to make the home as environmentally friendly as possible. They chose an Energy Star®-certified builder and committed, early on, to installing a high-efficiency geothermal HVAC system.
Welcome to the newest edition of GAMAzine - just in time for the onset of the 2006-2007 heating season. In this edition, we invite you to join with GAMA in promoting safety in your customers' homes.
Communication is a key component in HVAC controls products these days. Communication is one characteristic that all of the winners in the Commercial Controls Including Building Automation category of The NEWS' third annual Dealer Design Awards have in common.
The BASF Corp. recently hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony to dedicate its Near-Zero Energy Home, Paterson, N.J. The home is a demonstration that BASF describes as "80 percent more energy efficient, more durable, and faster to construct than conventionally built homes."
The calendar reads July so it must be time for The NEWS' annual Dealer Design Awards. For the third consecutive year, The NEWS is proud to highlight the best in new products. The products recognized earned those honors because they are inventive and make technicians' jobs in installing, servicing, and maintaining HVACR systems easier.
With rising energy costs, it's more important than ever to look at high efficiency heating as well as cooling units. That's exactly what the judges did when they studied the entries for the HVAC Residential Equipment/High Efficiency category in The NEWS' third annual Dealer Design Awards.
The competition was intense in one of this year's categories, Refrigeration and Ice Machines, in The NEWS' third annual Dealer Design Awards. The gold, silver, and bronze winners all brought cool and easy solutions to diverse refrigeration and ice machine issues.
It was an unlikely venue for a meeting of oil heat contractors; a grassy field in a rural Pennsylvania setting. But it made for a cozy atmosphere for over 50 people who attended the second annual Oilstock meeting of oil heat contractors, suppliers, and manufacturers.
Tools are what install and fix the world of HVAC. They are necessary for a successful contractor to have, and are highlighted in the Tools category of The NEWS' third annual Dealer Design Awards.