The air and the energy savings are sweet at the William B. Race Health Sciences Building at Santa Rosa Junior College. Thanks to an indirect/direct evaporative cooling system using 100 percent outdoor air, the facility's community dental clinic is getting fresh northern California air.
Stone Child Community College serves students of the Chippewa-Cree tribe who live on the Rocky Boy Reservation in northern Montana. Installed in the new Kennewash Hall is hydronic reheat with variable air volume to keep everyone comfortable even in winter.
Referrals are seven times more likely to become clients than cold call prospects. Here are three time-tested ways to build a new stream of referrals for your business.
Jim Crowder, chief executive officer of AirAdvice Inc., speaks out on the IAQ problem in the United States and diagnosing and fixing this problem in customers' homes.
Steve Vossen saw a problem and developed a solution that turned into a business. Vossen invented Ductcap, a temporary end cap, to satisfy specifications that called for unfinished ductwork ends to be covered.
Hiring ex-convicts who have completed formal HVACR training while incarcerated involves an element of risk. But branding all ex-convicts as unhireable and unreliable may rule out potentially valuable workers who have been successfully rehabilitated and look forward to meaningful and useful lives and careers.
Bringing your children into the business can generate resentment on the part of some of your existing management and employees. Here are some suggestions on how to bring them on board without a mutiny.
The Alliance to Save Energy's recent "Great Energy Efficiency Debate" in Washington, D.C., included a panel discussion called "Keeping U.S. Manufacturing Globally Competitive: Is Energy Efficiency a Key?"
It's not surprising that the International Energy Agency (IEA) Heat Pump Conference featured information on the efficiency, reliability, and longevity of today's heat pumps. What may surprise some people is just how long heat pumps are living. According to consultant Nance Lovvorn, "The observed median service life of heat pumps ... was approximately 26 years."
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