If you're like most HVACR contractors, you're fighting what sometimes seems like a losing battle against the onrushing tide of rising health care costs. Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), however, offer the possibility of making a dramatic reduction in your costs for staying healthy.
Kevin Dougherty scheduled two seminars for the Quality Service Contractors' Power Meeting called "Dynamics of a Family Business" and "Strategies for Buying and Selling a Business." He felt there were so many similar elements, however, that he combined them into one.
Environmental Health and Engineering (EH&E), Newton, Mass., evaluated the performance of Trane's CleanEffects whole-house air-cleaning system through comparison to industry standards, the performance of alternative systems, and health-based considerations.
Ranken Technical College celebrated the grand opening of its new Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning, and Refrigeration (HVACR) Technology Department recently. The entire facility underwent extensive renovations in the last year.
Mark your calendars now for the third annual National Indoor Comfort Week. It's a week set aside to celebrate the men and women who keep American homes and buildings cool, warm, comfortable, healthy, and safe, and this year it will be April 23-29.
During the Continuing Education (ConEd) Conference in Atlanta, members of the Linc Service® Network, a network of commercial HVAC mechanical contractors, got a glimpse of the future of their business: selling bundled energy solutions (BES).
A miniaturized cooling system being studied could make it possible to safely transport biological tissue and organs to remote areas without electricity. At the same time, this proposed novel cooling system could have an immense impact in the medical field.
If you want to get Skip Snyder's blood boiling, bring up the topic of health care insurance. Like many - if not most - contractors, the president of Snyder Company Inc., Upper Darby, Pa., can generate more than a few choice words regarding the upward spiraling cost of premiums.
It turns out that 2005 wasn't just a good year for manufacturers, it was also a terrific year for distributors. The Heating, Airconditioning and Refrigeration Distributors International (HARDI) believes the positive trend will continue. But there are some lingering concerns.
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