Trying to help contractors build a solid financial base doesn't lend itself to being sexy, but it's important. Over a day of intense talks, consultant Gary Oetker was "Taking Care Of Business," the title of his presentation at the Masters of the Game Conference.
Automated Logic Corp. (ALC), a unit of United Technologies Corp., has acquired two of Comfort Systems USA's independent dealers - United Environmental Services, L.P. of Houston, and Comfort Systems USA of Twin Cities Inc. of Minneapolis. Look for more dealer acquisitions in the months ahead.
Should you view a customer complaint as a pain-in-the-neck or an opportunity to generate cash? If you answered "pain-in-the-neck," you might want to take a second look at missed opportunities, according to Kristin Anderson Bottemiller, a featured speaker at the Nexstar Super Meeting.
Congratulations HVAC. A record breaking 8 million units have shipped in 2005, and the counting continues. According to the Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute (ARI), as of November, shipments of central A/C units and air-source heat pumps totaled 8,016,756 units, placing the industry on track for roughly 8.1 million units total shipped in 2005.
In jails, dense inmate populations raise the risk of disease outbreaks. One jail is using UVC lamps in the air-handling systems to help reduce natural gas heating costs while also enhancing indoor air quality.
After nearly 50 years of being applied to more than 150 million products, the board of directors of the Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute (ARI) has approved the redesign of ARI's Product Performance Certification Seal.
One of the best-known ways for a service technician to organize thoughts and more quickly solve problems is through the use of a service checklist. This article discusses the categories of a service checklist one by one for an undercharged system.
Lately, natural refrigerants have increasingly been used in process cooling. Ammonia makes up the largest proportion - over 40 percent - followed by carbon dioxide and hydrogen.
At the conclusion of each day at the Lennox Masters of the Game Conference, contractors were asked to reveal what they had learned for the day. "I took in so much, I think my head is about to explode," noted one information-overloaded contractor.
Robertson Heating Supply Co., distributor of Rheem equipment and other HVAC supplies, recently opened its third branch in Michigan, located in the suburban Detroit community of Livonia.
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