The News staff often speaks with influential industry leaders. Here are some comments from Tony Guzzi, president and chief operating officer of Emcor Group Inc., one of the world's largest specialty construction, energy infrastructure, and facility services providers.
HOUSTON - Jeff Ellingham, 42, died August 6 in an airplane accident with his brother-in-law David Hines. Mr. Ellingham was vice president of engineering with Goodman Manufacturing Co. He began
Here is a question from a reader and answer from Sharon Roberts, a consultant who specializes in selling to women and couples, customer service, and conflict management.
Many digital multimeters have a tilt stand and test leads, meaning it would take three hands to use it. How do you accomplish this when you only have two hands and you are the only tech assigned to this call?
The Energy Policy Act of 2005, signed recently by President Bush, contains three historic consensus agreements between the Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute (ARI) and several energy-efficiency groups establishing national minimum efficiency standards on commercial package air conditioning equipment, commercial refrigeration equipment, and automatic commercial ice-making equipment.
Often we work in ranges - temperature, superheat, or cfm - and we shouldn't. Part of the reason is that the analog instrumentation we are using is not as accurate as digital units. Digital instruments and a prescribed testing procedure can help you set up equipment to a higher standard.
"One-stop shopping" is the big promise HVAC parts suppliers have been making to contractors and their technicians. Manufacturers hope that broad product offerings, technical support, qualified counter staff, and faster response time will help them get to the top of contractors' parts supply lists.
Now that there are just over four months until the industry officially switches from a minimum efficiency standard of 10 SEER to the new minimum of 13 SEER, let's take a moment to look back at how the industry reached this juncture and what contractors, manufacturers, distributors, and dealers need to do from this point forward.
The art of refrigerant recovery was explained to Air Conditioning Refrigeration Institute (ARI) instructors at a recent workshop at Ferris State University.
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