When former President Bill Clinton stepped to a podium in New York City to convene the C-40 Large Cities Climate Summit, he was, in effect, opening the door for expanded opportunities for HVAC contractors in areas ranging from the installation of new energy-efficient equipment to major retrofits, with a special emphasis on performance contracting.
Energy-efficient products gained ground in the residential sector this past year. Citing an unprecedented mid-year report compiled by the Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute (ARI), the average SEER rating for unitary air conditioners sold through June was 13.66.
Star Service, a Linc Services HVAC contractor, recently introduced a concept that seems to be
making progress when it comes to recruiting new sales candidates. The goal was to identify three college seniors
interested in a sales career and who possessed the basic salesperson
profile.
This is the second in a series of white
papers to assist and promote the initial progress of building national and
local coalitions to address the tremendous need for building a workforce for
the construction industry of America.
“I don’t think anybody who was on that [scroll technology
development] team 20 years ago would have forecasted that we would have nearly
60 million pieces in the field today, 10 plants around the world, and scroll
models from one to 30 horsepower... nobody would have envisioned that,” assured
Ed Purvis.
Sit down with those deeply involved in the
development and ultimate production of scroll technology, and the words
“challenge” and “hurdle” are likely to surface quite a bit, as they did when The
NEWS spoke with Emerson executives of the 1970s and 1980s, who played
key roles in taking Copeland Scroll to market.
Generally speaking, the HVACR trade takes its
good ol’ time in adopting - and then adapting to - new technologies, be they
large or small, bigger or better.
On behalf of The Air Conditioning,
Heating, and Refrigeration NEWS, please enjoy a mix of nostalgia with
the future, as you celebrate with Emerson Climate Technologies, the 20th
Anniversary of Copeland Scroll.
Everyone at Emerson Climate Technologies is
proud of how far Copeland Scroll has come in its first 20 years. But as we
reflect on scroll’s launch, its market acceptance and global expansion, we’re
much prouder of what this technology evolution has meant to our customers and
the industry as a whole.
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Argonne National Laboratory have been honored with an R&D 100 Award for developing Access Grid 3.0. With the Access Grid, remote collaborators can see and talk with each other and share materials, while avoiding unnecessary travel.
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